Joyce MacKenzie, Date of Birth

    

Joyce MacKenzie

American actor, schoolteacher

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1929

Profession: actor, teacher, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Joyce MacKenzie

  • Joyce Elaine MacKenzie Hassing (born October 13, 1929 in Redwood City, California) is an American actress who appeared in films and television from 1946 to 1961.
  • She might be best remembered for being the eleventh actress to portray Jane.
  • She played the role opposite Lex Barker's Tarzan in 1953's Tarzan and the She-Devil.
  • MacKenzie is the daughter of Dr.
  • and Mrs.
  • Norman MacKenzie.
  • She was active in sports in high school, winning an award for "her all-round sports ability."During World War II, MacKenzie worked as a carpenter's helper in shipyards in San Francisco.
  • Her opportunity for acting came when she was discovered on her job as cashier at the Pasadena Playhouse in the summer of 1948.MacKenzie starred in a 1950 film noir, Destination Murder.
  • She appeared with James Stewart in the 1950 western Broken Arrow, as the wife of Robert Mitchum in the 1951 crime drama The Racket and as a publisher's daughter trying to wrest control of editor Humphrey Bogart's newspaper in 1952's Deadline - U.S.A..
  • MacKenzie's character and Jane Russell's exchanged identities in a 1954 musical, The French Line. Her final appearance was in the role of Nancy Gilman in the 1961 Perry Mason television series episode, "The Case of the Duplicate Daughter."

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