the road has brought us here to americus, georgia and oak grove cemetery
we're here to visit joanna moore and just the name joanna moore
probably doesn't ring any bells but if you watch the andy griffith show i
guarantee you that you know who joanna moore is joanna
played the part of peggy mcmillan in season three of the andy griffith
show she was the blonde haired girlfriend
of andy taylor believe it or not she was only in four episodes you would think
that she was in more because you can mention
that to just about anyone and they know exactly who you're talking
about and they would just about swear that she was in more than just the four
episodes joanna did a lot in hollywood though not
just the andy griffith show as a matter of fact she was in
hundreds of tv shows and in movies if you were a child of the 60s i
guarantee you you saw her in other episodes maybe of harry mason
maybe gunsmoke she was even under contract
with alfred hitchcock so she was in a couple of episodes with alfred hitchcock
presents
tragically at six years old her mother her baby sister and her father were
involved in a single car accident which took the life of her sister and
her mother a year later her father passed away from
injuries that he sustained in that accident shortly after that
dorothy was adopted by a fairly wealthy family
and they changed her name to joanna in 1951 joanna married her first husband
willis moore she ended up keeping that last name for
her acting career that marriage didn't last
very long it only lasted maybe a year and then
shortly thereafter she went to college at agnes scott college in atlanta
while in college she entered a beauty contest and won and that's where
she was discovered and was carried off to hollywood
she made her television debut in the november 8 1956
episode of the lux video theater later on she did an appointment with a shadow
in 1958 she was in touch of evil with orson welles charlton heston and jan lee
although it was a small part she got bigger parts in the film monster
on campus and the western right of crooked trail
after she began her acting career another tragedy struck her
she lost her hearing but after a few years she was able to have
surgery and corrected that problem in the meantime though when she was
filming she learned to read lips if the actor she was working with
was turned away or she couldn't read his lips
someone off camera would cue her either by emotion
or maybe even prodding her to let her know when it was time
for her to read her lines her career really began to take off in the early
1960s that was in 1962 when she joined the andy griffith show cast
she was only there for four episodes but it really does seem like there was a lot
more she joined the cast in season three
episode two it was never really explained what
happened to peggy on the andy griffith show did she leave did they break up
nobody really knows but if you look on youtube and i will
put a link in the description below there's a coffee commercial where andy
and aunt b are in the kitchen and the phone rings and it's peggy now
you never hear her voice and you never see her
but andy kind of i don't know kind of shoes her way
plus fluffs her off tells aunt b to tell her something
because he wants to finish his coffee that could be why she left so you may
remember joanna from other tv shows too other than just
andy griffith's show she was in gunsmoke she was an alfred hitchcock as we
mentioned earlier but she was also in tv shows like bewitched
you might remember her as being a school chum of darren who actually was a beauty
contest winner and of course that makes everybody
jealous because darren's paying her too much attention
what i remember her from is from the elvis movie follow that dream
where she played alicia claypool now she was
a psychologist and her and her partner were trying to get elvis and his family
to move off the beach where they were
homesteading she had an interest in elvis and then when he shunned her
she turned against the family and brought him to court to have them
thrown off the beach of course if you've not seen the movie i'm not going to
spoil it for you something else you might not know about
joanna is that she was married four times and her third marriage was to
ryan o'neal in 1962 from that marriage she had two
children the only two children she had gavin and tatum o'neill that's right
tatum o'neill is joanna's daughter ryan and joanna stayed married for four
years that was the longest of her four marriages it was during that
time that joanna became addicted to alcohol sadly that
took a toll on her life and her family even though her and ryan had been
divorced in 1970 ryan got full custody of both children
her career began to fade after that point she did go into rehab a couple of
times but sadly it was hard for her to kick
the substance abuse issues she continued acting even into the 70s
and 80s she ended up doing a film with yvonne
craig you know batgirl and cynthia pepper was called
three coins in a fountain 1974 she appeared in walton's episode
titled the departure her last feature film was the hindenburg
after 1976 she only had two parts one was in the 1980 television film
scout's honor starring gary coleman and the other was a small
part and an australian film called run chrissy run despite those two projects
people had thought that maybe she'd isolated herself they
hadn't seen her in years but they did find her in palm springs
where she was doing small theater projects
something that some people may or may not know is that joanna had a beautiful
voice if you watch one of the andy griffith
episodes where she and andy are sitting on the front porch
she sings down in the valley i'll leave a link in the description below if you
want to see that video other than singing on the andy griffith
episode she recorded one single and it was an answer song now if
you don't know what an answer song is that's a song that
responds to another song and it was a really big
thing back in the 60s for example tell laura i love her the
answer song was tell tommy i miss him by marilyn michaels if you heard the
song save the last dance for me then the answer song to that is i'll
save the last dance for you so the answer song that joanna recorded
was an answer song to the 1967 hit by glenn campbell written
by jimmy webb by the time i get to phoenix her answer
song also written by jimmy webb is entitled by the time you get to
phoenix again i'll leave a link down in the
description by the end of the 1980s and 1990s her
career pretty much vanished her daughter tatum o'neill was doing all
she could to support her and it's uncanny i'll put a picture here
of tatum beside her mother joanna it's uncanny how much they look
alike joanna continued to struggle with
alcoholism she was arrested at least five times for
driving under the influence also as a result of an automobile
accident she lost three fingers on her left hand
that inspired her to write a book though short story where she referred to
one of her grandchildren is looking at nana's
tiny hand it may be because of her addictive personality
but she also struggled with cigarettes she was a chain
smoker chain smoking led to her having throat cancer
and that is what ended up taking her life joanna passed away november 22
1997 and she was laid to rest at hillside memorial park
in culver city california at some point her family decided to bring her body
back here to the little town that she was born in
americas georgia and she was laid to rest
beside her father henry a cook iii who died a year after the auto accident
on august the 11th 1942 and also beside her mother and her
sister dorothy e cook her mother died on march
31 1941 along with her baby sister virginia
louisa cook who is less than a year old they were
buried together here in this plot
grandson kevin mcenroe has her picture tattooed on his shoulder
he also wrote a book called our town where the main character
is dedicated and modeled after his grandmother dorothy
so joanna moore dorothy joanne cook thank you for the joy you've given us
your story started in this small town you're best known for playing a part
in the small town of mayberry and now hopefully you're at peace resting back
in this small town next to your mother your father and your
baby sister
thanks joanna for all the memories you've given us thank you for the joy
you've spread and thank you for the work that you've
done that will keep not only this generation but generations
to come happy and motivated
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