Joi Lansing was a popular actress and sex symbol who enjoyed a secret lesbian affair
She was born Joy Rae Brown on April 6, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents divorced when she was a child and her mother remarried. The family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1940. At the age of fourteen she started modeling. In 1947 she made her film debut in the comedy When A Girl's Beautiful. Joi had brief romances with Mickey Rooney and George Raft. On March 26, 1950 she married Jerry Safron, a sales manager at Columbia Studios. Their union was annulled just five months later. She married actor Lance Fuller in 1951 but they split up after two years together. Joi got bit parts in more than a dozen films including Neptune's Daughter, Singin In The Rain, and The French Line. Her big break came in 1955 when she was cast as a "dumb blonde" on The Bob Cummings Show. It was a hit and ran for four years. With her platinum hair and voluptuous figure she quickly became a popular pin-up girl. The press called her "The Marilyn Monroe of Television". In 1956 she had a leading role in the crime drama Hot Shots. She also appeared in the films Queen Of Outer Space and The Atomic Submarine. Director Orson Welles gave her a small role in his 1958 drama Touch Of Evil. Although she had become a sex symbol she claimed to be a devout Mormon who didn't smoke or drink alcohol.
