Joan Staley, who starred opposite Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and appeared on such TV series as 77 Sunset Strip, The Dick Van Dyke Show and a McHale's Navy spinoff, has died. She was 79.
Staley died Sunday of heart failure at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California, her family announced.
In Roustabout (1964), Staley played Marge, the jilted girlfriend of carnival singer Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley), and she gets to slap him across the face in the film.
"I asked him if he wanted me to pull up," she recalled in Tom Lisanti's 2001 book, Fantasy ...
Staley died Sunday of heart failure at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California, her family announced.
In Roustabout (1964), Staley played Marge, the jilted girlfriend of carnival singer Charlie Rogers (Elvis Presley), and she gets to slap him across the face in the film.
"I asked him if he wanted me to pull up," she recalled in Tom Lisanti's 2001 book, Fantasy ...
- 11/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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