Joan Freeman

Who is Joan Freeman?

Joan Freeman is an American actress.

Freeman was a child actor, having appeared at the age of seven in the 1949 television series Sandy Dreams, along with Richard Beymer and Jill St. John. At fourteen, she played the character Jeannie Harlow in the 1956 episode "The Frontier Theatre" of the ABC western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

In 1961-1962, she was cast in six episodes as the young waitress Elma Gahrigner, in the ABC drama series, Bus Stop with co-stars Marilyn Maxwell, Richard Anderson, and Buddy Ebsen. After Bus Stop, she appeared in guest-starring roles on the NBC modern western series, Empire, with Richard Egan and on the ABC/Warner Brothers western, The Dakotas.

In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film, Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and singer teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon. Freeman was cast as tour guide Amelia Carter in The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze.

1965 Co-starred in "The Rounders". The Rounders is a lighthearted 1965 film starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda. The comedy was based on the novel of the same name by Max Evans. Ben Jones and Marion 'Howdy' Lewis are two easygoing, modern-day cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer is Jim Ed Love, a shrewd businessman who always gets the better of them. After they bring him a string of tamed horses and spend the winter rounding up stray cows, he talks them into taking a nondescript roan horse in lieu of some of their wages.