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The Page of
Joey Heatherton ! 1a. The Joey Heatherton
Story - Brief Description.
1b. The Joey Heatherton Story
- TV Guide
1963.
1c. The Joey Heatherton
Story - Look
Magazine 1968.
4. Joey Heatherton Magazine
Articles.
5. Pictures of Joey
Heatherton!
[1a] Joey Heatherton, entry from book,
The TV Encyclopedia, by David Inman.
Born Rockville Centre, NY, Sept. 14, 1944. Sexy, elfin
singer-dancer of sixties variety shows who's had her share of legal and career
problems since then.
[1b] This is Joey, by
Leslie Raddatz. Reprinted from TV Guide Magazine, Aug. 31, 1963.
This is the assignment on Joey Heatherton. I sorta figured
Joey was probably a comic like Joey Bishop, but actually Joey isn't like
him at all. In fact, Joey isn't even a comic.
Of course, Joey's short like Bishop - 5 feet-3 - but, where
Joey Bishop has dark hair and brown eyes, Joey Heatherton has blonde hair
and blue eyes - much bigger eyes than Bishop's. The general build and
physical appearance are also quite different. Joey Bishop is what I
would describe as wiry, which is not the way I would describe Joey Heatherton.
Joey Heatherton was born in New York on Sept. 14, 1944, the
daughter of Ray Heatherton, a former musical comedy star, who until recently
was The Merry Mailman on WPIX. [A New York City independent TV
station.]
Her mother was a dancer in the Broadway production of "Babes in Arms,"
in which Ray Heatherton appeared, and that is where they met.
With that backround, it is only natural that Joey would turn
to what we in the trade call show biz. She got her start in "The Sound
of Music" when she was only 15 years old and has been in a number of Broadway
plays since. She has also done a lot of television - The Perry Como
Show, The Nurses, The U.S. Steel Hour, The Virginian and Route 66.
She recently completed her first motion picture, "Twilight of Honor,"
which is also the first starring vehicle for Richard Chamberlain - Dr. Kildare.
For a young lady who was graduated from high school only a
year ago, that is an impressive list of credits. But actually Joey
didn't get to her own graduation; she was appearing in summer stock in Buffalo
at the time. This fall she is planning to take courses in English
literature and psychology at Long Island University - between commuting to
Hollywood for TV and motion picture roles.
Joey's interests are those of any teenager. But despite
the fact that she swims, skates and rides horseback she is not muscular;
and all the hot dogs, pastrami and gooey sundaes she eats have not made her
fat, although she is, you might say, rounded. Nothing like Joey Bishop
at all.
[1c] Joey Heatherton: Heavenly Body
Entering Orbit, by Gerald Astor. Reprinted from Look Magazine,
Feb. 8, 1966.
She sings some, acts too. But her body lifted Davenie
Johanna Heatherton up from the ruck. Beyond these tangible virtues,
what has given Joey Heatherton orbital velocity is the way she moves that
torso. When TV's Hullabaloo went on the air for the first time,
Joey made a guest appearance. Although the show brought grunts of wrath
from the critics, Joey's dance hiked temperatures and eyebrows. The
talk about the dance helped the program survive. Bob Hope made the
troops laugh when he visited the Dominican Republic and Vietnam; they howled
when Joey danced.
She could have been born and raised in a trunk, since mother
Davenie and father Ray met as performers in a Broadwy musical. However,
Joey was brought up in a prim Long Island suburb of New York. She started
ballet school at six, studied four years with George Balanchine, put in a
year on modern-jazz dance and went on to voice and dramatics. Richard
Rodgers, "the wall-to-all carpeting of show business," says Joey, gave her
the first big break with a part in The Sound of Music.
After the Broadway turn came some TV dramas and film flops.
Something about Joey's sexy-kid look earned her roles as a teener in
trouble. She now rejects such parts: "No more pregnant ingenues for
me." Also off her list for the present are marriage and the white picket
fence. "I'm not interested in marriage now. We've got a picket
fence home, and it doesn't interest me." Keeping suburbia and show
biz in harmony poses problems. Townsfolk don't realize their contagious
colds and late hours ruin performances. She laughs at silly tales of
her smoking pot and doing a strip in a bar. Father Ray tells her, "You
don't have to be a kook."
Choreographer Jaime Rogers thinks Joey's "tremendous vitality
and her energy make her very sensual. She gets her motor going, and
it just flows out naturally." Some critics of the free-flowing body
have labeled her dancing "sleazy eroticism." Joey shrugs off the hullabaloo
over Hullabaloo as the result of unfortunate camera angles. She
offers no apologies for her style and writes off bad reviews as symptoms
of confused minds. For a girl with a fiery reputation, she lives in
a remarkably temperate climate. Her home continues to be with mother,
father, brother and dog, Mr. Didums, in Rockville Centre. She relaxes
by riding and swimming, sometimes bursts out with clothes-buying orgies.
"Somebody takes care of the money, I draw what I need." Her mother
accompanies 21-year-old Joey on most road trips, and she dates rarely.
"It's too much of a drag to come all the way back from Manhattan on
the train with the drunks."
[2] Joey Heatherton's Television Credits.
As a Regular -
As a Guest -
I'm sure that there are other performances of Joey's
in the 1970's, 80's & 90's that I've missed. If you know of any please e-mail me!
[3] Joey Heatherton's Movies.
[4] Joey Heatherton Magazine Articles.
[5] Pictures of Joey Heatherton!
[6] Other Sites of Joey Heatherton.
A few other good web sites relating to the irrepressibly dynamic
Joey Heatherton!
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[8] Why a Page for Joey Heatherton?!
Because like many young men in the late 1960's I was
uncontrollably impressed by Joey's dancing, her singing, and her attitude.
What really hooked me were her appearances on The Goldiggers and the Dean
Martin shows, during which she showed off her talents and ingratiated herself with
every male who saw her! (My poor little teenaged brain was overwhelmed!)
If anyone has, or knows where I can get, a video of her HULLABALOO
appearance, her Mike Douglas Shows, or her Joey & Dad shows
please contact me.
This small but exciting part of the WWWeb is brought to you
by Robert Haycock. E-Mail me with any questions, comments,
suggestions, or information about Joey Heatherton. Sorry, but because of Massive SPAM problems my E-Mail link has been
"hidden". See the info box at the bottom of this page for more info, thanks!
No, I do not have a mailing address for sending fan mail to Joey.
P.S. Thanks, Joey! You made a vivid and lasting
impression!!!
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