Joan Chandler was an American actress who starred in several movies during the 1940s and 1950s, most notably Rope

Rope (film)

Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions...

(1948) with James Stewart

James Stewart (actor)

James Maitland Stewart was an American film and stage actor, known for his distinctive voice and his everyman persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime...

 and Humoresque

Humoresque (film)

Humoresque is a 1946 Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness. The screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold was based upon a novel by Fannie Hurst...

(1946) with Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....

.

She was born in Butler, Pennsylvania

Butler, Pennsylvania

The city of Butler is the county seat of Butler County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, situated north of Pittsburgh. The population was 15,121 at the 2000 census.- History :...

, and died at the age of 55 of cancer in New York City

New York City

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. She appeared in several feature films, five Broadway plays, and about 12 television programs, such as Studio One and Starlight Theatre. She was married twice, first to David McKay, then to Dr. Charles C. Hogan.

Filmography

• Night and Day (1946) bit part
• Humoresque
  Humoresque (film)
  Humoresque is a 1946 Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield in an older woman/younger man tale about a violinist and his patroness. The screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold was based upon a novel by Fannie Hurst...
  
  (1946)
• Rope
  Rope (film)
  Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions...
  
  (1948)
• How to Make a Monster
  How to Make a Monster (1958 film)
  How to Make a Monster is a 1958 American horror film released by American International Pictures. The film is a follow-up to both I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Like Teenage Frankenstein, a black & white film that switched to color for the final moments, How to Make a...
  
  (1958)
• Dragstrip Riot (1958)
• Too Soon to Love
  Too Soon to Love
  Too Soon to Love is an American exploitation film starring Richard Evans, Jennifer West, Jack Nicholson, and Joan Chandler. The film was directed by Richard Rush and released by Universal Pictures.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (1960)

Television

• Westinghouse Studio One (2 episodes, 1950–1956)

- Song for a Summer Night (1956) TV episode

- Spectre of Alexander Wolff (1950) TV episode

• Four Star Playhouse
  Four Star Playhouse
  Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953...
  
  (1 episode, 1954)

- Detective's Holiday (1954) TV episode

• Robert Montgomery Presents
  Robert Montgomery Presents
  Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example,...
  
  (1 episode, 1952)

- The Closed Door (1952) TV episode

• Suspense
  Suspense (US TV series)
  Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City...
  
  (1 episode, 1951)

- Mikki (1951) TV episode

• Celanese Theatre
  Celanese
  Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 global technology and specialty materials company with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. The company is a leading producer of acetyl products, which are intermediate chemicals for nearly all major industries, and is the world's largest producer of vinyl...
  
  (1 episode, 1951)

- "Winterset

Winterset (play)

Winterset is a play by Maxwell Anderson.A verse drama written largely in poetic form, the tragedy deals indirectly with the famous Sacco-Vanzetti case, in which two Italian immigrants with radical political beliefs were executed...

" (1951) TV episode

• Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from 1950 to 1957 on NBC, and then until 1963 on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1 episode, 1951)

- A Different World (1951) TV episode

• Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1 episode, 1951)

- The Romantic Young Lady (1951) TV episode

• Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
  Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
  The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse is an American television anthology drama series which offered adaptations of Pulitzer Prize winning plays, stories and novels. The distinguished journalist Elmer Davis was the host and narrator of this 1950-52 ABC series....
  
  (1 episode, 1951)

- The Silver Cord (1951) TV episode

• Starlight Theatre (1 episode, 1950)

- The Roman Kid (1950) TV episode

• Actors Studio
  Actors Studio (TV series)
  Actors Studio is an American TV show which aired for 65 episodes, from September 26, 1948 to October 26 on the fledgling ABC Television Network; then from November 1, 1949 to June 23, 1950 on CBS Television....
  
  (1 episode, 1950)

- Sanctuary in Paris (1950) TV episode

• Philco Television Playhouse (1 episode, 1949)

- "The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. The house is now a non-profit museum, with an admission fee charged for tours, as well as an active settlement house with programs for children...

" (1949) TV episode

Plays

• The Disenchanted (Breit-Schulberg)

Performer: Joan Chandler (Jere Halliday) - Replacement - Coronet Theatre

Eugene O'Neill Theatre

The Eugene O'Neill Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 230 West 49th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was built for the Shuberts as part of a theatre-hotel complex named for 19th century tragedian Edwin Forrest...

 - December 3, 1958 to May 16, 1959

• My Three Angels
  My Three Angels
  My Three Angels is a comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The show is based on the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson, and is their only play that is regularly performed in repertory theater...
  
  (Samuel and Bella Spewack)

Starring: Joan Chandler (Marie Louise Ducotel) - Morosco Theatre

Morosco Theatre

The Morosco Theatre was a legitimate theatre located at 217 West 45th Street in the heart of the theater district in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States....

 - March 11, 1953 to January 2, 1954

• The Lady From the Sea
  The Lady from the Sea
  The Lady from the Sea is a play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.Kvinnan från havet is a ballet by choreographer Birgit Cullberg, and based on Ibsen's play...
  
  (Ibsen)

Performer: Joan Chandler (Boletta) - Fulton Theatre - August 7, 1950 to August 19, 1950

• Where's Charley?
  Where's Charley?
  Where's Charley? is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1948 and was revived on Broadway and in the West End...
  
  (Loesser-Abbott)

Starring: Joan Chandler (Amy Spettigue) - Replacement - musical based on Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt is a farce in three acts written by Brandon Thomas. It broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances....

- St. James Theatre

St. James Theatre

The St. James Theatre is located at 246 W. 44th St. Broadway, New York City, New York. It was built by Abraham L. Erlanger, theatrical producer and a founding member of the Theatrical Syndicate, on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant. It opened in 1927 as The Erlanger...

 - October 11, 1948 to September 9, 1950

• The Late George Apley
  The Late George Apley
  The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston's upper class. The title character is a Harvard-educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston....
  
  

Performer: Joan Chandler (Eleanor Apley) - based on the novel by J. P. Marquand - opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on November 23, 1944, and ran for 384 performances

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