Joan Taylor Filmography

Born:: Geneva, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Slim, wide-eyed leading lady Joan Taylor was in films from 1949, going through the usual ingenue paces in such programmers as Fighting Men of the Plains. Joan went on to shriek her way through the Ray Harryhausen frightfests Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) 20,000,000 Miles to Earth (1957)....Read More

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Omar Khayyam

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Raymond Massey, John Derek

Synopsis: Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar Khayyam. Cornel Wilde stars as the legendary Persian poet, here depicted as not only a philosopher but a scientist, politician and great lover. As the Persians gear up for Read More

1957
War Drums

Actors: Lex Barker, Joan Taylor, Ben Johnson, Larry Chance, Richard H. Cutting

Synopsis: War Drums manages to be pro-Indian, pro-Mexican, pro-tolerance and pro-feminist without ever resorting to speechmaking or sacrificing its entertainment value. Former Tarzan Lex Barker stars as an Apache chief who is almost ostracized by his tribe when he marries Mexican girl Joan Taylor. Read More

1957
20 Million Miles to Earth

Actors: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Brown Henry

Synopsis: One of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen's pre-Seventh Voyage of Sinbad efforts, 20 Million Miles to Earth borrows a few pages from King Kong. An American spaceship crashlands off the coast of Sicily. The rescue party discovers that the astronauts have inadvertently brought back a curious Read More

1957
Girls in Prison

Actors: Richard Denning, Joan Taylor, Adele Jergens, Helen Gilbert, Lance Fuller

Synopsis: Girls in Prison is a typical babes-behind-bars affair, elevated by a better than usual cast. Richard Denning stars as a prison chaplain who believes inmate Joan Taylor's story that she's been framed. But Joan's cellmates, convinced that the girl has salted away several thousand dollars of stolen Read More

1956
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba

Synopsis: Anyone who's seen the 1996 science-fiction lampoon Mars Attacks may have trouble watching Earth vs. the Flying Saucers with a straight face. Hugh Marlowe plays scientist Russell Marvin, who is on-hand when an alien spacecraft lands on earth. The saucermen at first insist that they've come in Read More

1956
Fort Yuma

Actors: Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson, Joan Taylor, Addison Richards

Synopsis: In this western, a white man kills an Apache Chief and starts a war. This time the Apaches choose an interesting way to exact their revenge: they will dress up as federal soldiers and sneak into the fort. The problem is that they must attack a supply column in order to get the uniforms. They do so Read More

1955
Apache Woman

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, Morgan Jones, Paul Birch

Synopsis: In 1870s Arizona, Anne LeBeau (Joan Taylor) is caught between two cultures in a conflict that may kill her and her brother Armand (Lance Fuller). They're the children of a white French father and an Apache mother (the daughter of a chief, no less), and they find that they're equally despised by Read More

1955
Rose Marie

Actors: Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main

Synopsis: 1954's Rose Marie is the third film version of the 1924 Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein-Rudolph Frinl operetta of the same name. Though not a completely faithful adaptation, this version is closer to the original than the (admittedly enjoyable) Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald version of 1936. Ann Blyth Read More

1954
Off Limits

Actors: Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff, Stanley Clements

Synopsis: At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his surplus of energy makes up for his chronological unsuitability. Hope plays the manager of boxing champ Stanley Clements, who has just received his draft notice. Gangster Marvin Miller strong-arms Read More

1953
War Paint

Actors: Robert Stack, Joan Taylor, Charles McGraw, Keith Larsen, Peter Graves

Synopsis: War Paint stars Robert Stack as a courageous U.S. Cavalry lieutenant, assigned to deliver a peace treaty to a powerful Indian chief. Unfortunately, a band of bloodthirsty renegades have vowed to kill the officer before he completes his mission. Will our hero be able to deliver the treaty at the Read More

1953
The Savage

Actors: Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow, Peter Hanson, Joan Taylor, Richard Rober

Synopsis: The Paramount publicity department had a field day heralding the news that Charlton Heston portrays a Native American named "Warbonnet" in The Savage. Actually the ad campaign was a bit of a cheat, since Heston turns out to be a white man raised by the Sioux. The crisis comes when hostilities Read More

1953
On Dangerous Ground

Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in Nicholas Ray's moving film noir. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in Read More

1951
Fighting Man of the Plains

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Jane Nigh, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy in the years following the Civil War. During one raid, Scott kills the man he holds responsible for the death of his brother. The dead man was innocent, and Scott becomes a Read More

1949