Elaine Joyce's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) City of Angels (1976) Marsha Mr. Merlin Alexandra The $10,000 Pyramid Elaine Joyce The Don Knotts Show Regular (3) What's My Line? Elaine Joyce

Main Movie Roles 1986 - Trick or Treat 1980 - Motel Hell 1968 - Funny Girl 1963 - Bye Bye Birdie 1962 - The Music Man 1961 - West Side Story

BIOGRAPHY:

Elaine Joyce was the lead in the Broadway musical "Sugar" from 1972 to closing with Tony Roberts (I) and Robert Morse (I). A mainstay on TV game shows in the early 1970s, often appearing with her first husband, Bobby Van (I).

In 1999, she married playwright Neil Simon (I) and now goes by the name of Elaine Joyce-Simon.

Has two children: Taylor (with Bobby Van (I), 1977) and Michael (with John Levoff).


TRIVIA:

• Sister-in-law of 'Danny Simon (I)' (qv).
• Bubbly, shapely American actress and TV personality who pulled the "dumb blond" act in the '70s. Starred with 'Robert Morse (I)' (qv) and 'Tony Roberts (I)' (qv) in "Sugar," the Broadway musical version of the cinema classic _Some Like It Hot (1959)_ (qv) in the 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) role. Active on game shows.