Actress. A noted performer of the 1930s, she appeared under her maiden name on Broadway and in a number of Hollywood features, mostly thrillers. Raised in New York City, she learned her art in school theater and on radio; spotted by Fox talent scouts, she made her silver screen debut with the 1931 "Mr. Lemon of Orange." As she started getting larger roles Joan was seen, also in 1931, in "Young Sinners" and "Hush Money," the last named with Myrna Loy, and in 1932's "The Famous Ferguson Case." Moving to the Mack Sennet Studios, she was in some comedy shorts among them "Here Prince" and "False Impressions." Returning home she made her Broadway bow at the Gaiety Theater in "Collision." Joan was soon back in Hollywood where she joined Warner Brothers and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra for the 1933 revue "I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket" as well as for "Wrongorilla." The late 1930s saw her on the screen a number of times, her credits including "Gold Bricks" (1936) and 1938's "Kentucky Moonshine," "Always Goodbye" with Barbara Stanwick and Cesar Romero, and "Gateway." In 1941 Joan married, briefly, the somewhat older actor William Post, Jr. then after that union broke-up she wed William Reresby Sitwell, child of English nobility, with whom she lived in London and at the massive Barmoor Castle which later fell to ruins. With Sitwell's death in the early 1980s Joan returned to New York where she lived out her final years and died of respiratory failure. Commenting on her life in the English aristocracy she said simply "The Sitwells were from another world." Some sources give her birth year as 1916.
Actress. A noted performer of the 1930s, she appeared under her maiden name on Broadway and in a number of Hollywood features, mostly thrillers. Raised in New York City, she learned her art in school theater and on radio; spotted by Fox talent scouts, she made her silver screen debut with the 1931 "Mr. Lemon of Orange." As she started getting larger roles Joan was seen, also in 1931, in "Young Sinners" and "Hush Money," the last named with Myrna Loy, and in 1932's "The Famous Ferguson Case." Moving to the Mack Sennet Studios, she was in some comedy shorts among them "Here Prince" and "False Impressions." Returning home she made her Broadway bow at the Gaiety Theater in "Collision." Joan was soon back in Hollywood where she joined Warner Brothers and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra for the 1933 revue "I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket" as well as for "Wrongorilla." The late 1930s saw her on the screen a number of times, her credits including "Gold Bricks" (1936) and 1938's "Kentucky Moonshine," "Always Goodbye" with Barbara Stanwick and Cesar Romero, and "Gateway." In 1941 Joan married, briefly, the somewhat older actor William Post, Jr. then after that union broke-up she wed William Reresby Sitwell, child of English nobility, with whom she lived in London and at the massive Barmoor Castle which later fell to ruins. With Sitwell's death in the early 1980s Joan returned to New York where she lived out her final years and died of respiratory failure. Commenting on her life in the English aristocracy she said simply "The Sitwells were from another world." Some sources give her birth year as 1916.
Bio by: Ola K Ase
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