* 1943 – Joan Van Ark, American actress

* June 16 – Joan Van Ark, American actress

In 1972, she played the lead role in two television films that were each intended as pilots for upcoming series for NBC, Madame Sin with Robert Wagner, and The Judge and Jake Wyler, with Joan Van Ark, but in each case, NBC decided against producing a series.

It also features Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers.

The two starred together for the first time ( along with Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman and Joan Plowright ) in 1990's I Love You to Death and again in Gus Van Sant's avant-garde film My Own Private Idaho.

These singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Grace Slick, Dave Mason, Jim Croce, Fred Neil, Roger McGuinn, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Donovan, Stephen Stills, Randy Newman, Steve Goodman, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Jesse Winchester, Johnny Tillotson, Sylvia Tyson, Ian Tyson, Nick Drake, Tim Hardin, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Eric Andersen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Armatrading, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Nick Gravenites, Rick Nelson, Richard Fariña, Tuli Kupferberg Mark Spoelstra, Don Mclean, Patrick Sky, Jimmy Buffett, Mickey Newbury, Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Van Ronk, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Frank Zappa.

Possessed is a 1947 Warner Bros. film starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, and Raymond Massey in a tale about an unstable woman's obsession with her ex-lover.

Notable monuments and statues in the park include the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument at 72nd Street ( Penelope Jencks, sculptor ), the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at 89th Street, the Joan of Arc statue at 93rd Street ( Anna Hyatt Huntington, sculptor ; John V. Van Pelt, architect ), and Grant's Tomb, New York's version of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Future Knots Landing stars Joan Van Ark and William Devane made cameo appearances.

The following are well-known actors who feature in guest-starring roles on Rhoda: Henry Winkler, Vivian Vance, Eileen Heckart, John Ritter, Norman Fell, Doris Roberts, Joan Van Ark, Tim Matheson, Linda Lavin, Judd Hirsch, Ruth Gordon, Howard Hessman, Anne Jackson, Robert Alda, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Stiller, Jack Gilford, Rene Auberjonois.

His redhead girlfriend Gloria was voiced by Nancy Cartwright ( who does the voice for Bart Simpson ) with the voice talents of Dick Beals as Reggie Van Dough, William Callaway as Professor Keanbean, Joan Gerber as Irona and Regina Rich, Christian Hoff as Freckles and Pee-Wee, Stanley Jones as Cadbury and Mr. Rich, and Frank Welker as Dollar.

Some popular singers from later decades include Roberta Flack (" Killing Me Softly with His Song "), Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band (" You Broke My Mood Ring "), singer-songwriter Tori Amos, Herb Fame ( of Peaches & Herb ), Van McCoy ( disco producer, " The Hustle "), Toni Braxton, Ginuwine, Mýa, Dave Grohl ( of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters ), Starland Vocal Band (" Afternoon Delight "), Joan Jett ( rock singer ) and Nils Lofgren ( guitarist for Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Neil Young ).

Performers such as Dave Van Ronk and Joan Baez helped expand the scene by appealing to college students, while Bob Dylan became a mainstream folk-rock star in the 1960s.

Music-driven and Latin influenced, the series stars Cheech Marin, Joan Van Ark, Tony Plana, William Sanderson, George Kennedy, Marabina Jaimes and David Paymer.

The regular cast included Hollywood veterans such as Henry Gibson, George Kennedy, Cheech Marin, and Joan Van Ark.

The town is populated by other insects, including two brash American flies, Clem ( William Sanderson ) and Burt ( Michael Stanton ), a hyperactive flea named Lencho ( Cheech Marin ), a cynical artist termite named Eaton Woode ( Charles Adler ), a butterfly named Rosa ( Candi Milo ) and her boyfriend Miguel who is still in his cocoon, Amelia ( Joan Van Ark ), an enthusiastic damselfly.

Hollywood starlet Joan Olander signed her contract with Universal Studios the day Eisenhower was inaugurated, and the studio gave her the name Mamie Van Doren, after the new first lady.

Many familiar actors made guest appearances, and others who were newcomers went on to become well-known, including: Susan Dey, Gail Edwards, Shelley Fabares, Morgan Fairchild, Ed Flanders, Mark Goddard, Larry Hagman, Linda Harrison, David Hedison, Don Johnson, Tommy Lee Jones, Don Keefer, Vera Miles, Patrick O ' Neal Sean Penn, Daniel J. Travanti, Joan Van Ark, Carl Weathers, Robert Webber, Eve McVeagh, and James Woods, among many others.

Jones, Kate Keenan ( Emmy nominee ), Dan Kemp, Sondra Locke, Robert Loggia, Tina Louise, Barbara Luna, George Maharis, Robert Mandan, Vera Miles, Donna Mills, Leslie Nielsen ( Emmy nominee ), Nick Nolte, Sheree North, Lee Paul, John M. Pickard, Stefanie Powers ( Emmy nominee ), Judson Pratt, Denver Pyle, Dack Rambo, Wayne Rogers, John Rubinstein ( Emmy nominee ), Tom Skerritt ( Emmy nominee ), David Soul, Peter Strauss ( Emmy nominee ), Vic Tayback, Joan Van Ark, a young Vincent Van Patten, John Vernon, Jessica Walter ( Emmy nominee ), future soap opera star Jess Walton ( multiple Daytime Emmy Award winner ), Cindy Williams, William Windom, Dana Wynter, and Anthony Zerbe ( Emmy Award winner in 1976 — Best Supporting Actor ).

; Joan Van Ark ( Original cast ) as Valene " Val " Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing ( 1979 – 1992, 1993 ).

( Joan Van Ark appears in all but six of the episodes for her 13 seasons, and returned for the series two-part finale in 1993 )

* Joan of " Ark ", occasional misspelling of Joan of Arc, a French martyr and saint who led a rebellion against an English occupation

Upon arriving in California, Gary and Val ( Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark ) met their neighbors: Sid and Karen Fairgate ( played by Don Murray and Michele Lee ), the self-described “ neighborhood Brady Bunch .” Together, they had three teenaged children, Eric ( Steve Shaw ), Diana ( Claudia Lonow ) and Michael ( Patrick Petersen ).

" The Gary / Val / Abby triangle that provided story throughout the mid-1980s was suggested by Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark in 1980, and the producers hesitated for a year and a half before going through with it in 1982.

Joan van Ark, whose character was struck by a brain illness in season 12 and proceeded to thereafter go crazy, felt that Latham and Lechowick had turned her character into the " village idiot.

* Joan Van Ark

Joan Van Ark ( born June 16, 1943 ) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its spin-off, Knots Landing.

Joan Van Ark and Howard Duff in Felony Squad ( 1968 )

Joan Van Ark in 2008

Joan Van Ark has been married to husband John Marshall, a former reporter with KNBC-TV, since February 1, 1966.

* Joan Van Ark

Other Knots Landing actors that appeared with her included Kevin Dobson, Lisa Hartman Black, Michele Lee, Donna Mills, Don Murray, Michelle Phillips, Ted Shackelford, and Joan Van Ark.

* Just Joan: A Joan Crawford Appreciation by Donna Marie Nowak.

He also appeared with Gene Tierney, Ann Sheridan, Maureen O ' Hara, Nancy Carroll, Donna Reed, Gail Russell, Margaret Sullavan, Virginia Mayo, Bebe Daniels, Carole Lombard, and Joan Bennett.

directed by Donna Deitch, Joan Micklin Silver, Penelope Spheeris

** Francesco Molinari-Pradelli ( conductor ), Joan Sutherland & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for The Art of the Prima Donna

* Don Giovanni ( Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra ) ( EMI 1959 ) with Joan Sutherland as Donna Anna.

** Francesco Molinari-Pradelli ( conductor ), Joan Sutherland & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for The Art of the Prima Donna

Olivia Newton-John, Pat Benatar, Madonna, Joan Jett, Deborah Harry, Janet Jackson, Cher, Liza Minnelli, Donna Summer, Terri Nunn, Kim Carnes, and Dolly Parton were all at some point considered for the role of Rachel Marron.

* Donna Dixon as Joan Tenowitz in the Season 3 episode " Blonde on Blonde ".

The miniseries takes place four years after the series ended in 1993, and brings back castmembers William Devane, Kevin Dobson, Michele Lee, Donna Mills, Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michelle Phillips and Stacy Galina in starring roles.

Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.

A publisher of hardcover fiction and nonfiction, Knopf's list of authors includes John Banville, Max Beerbohm, Carl Bernstein, Willa Cather, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Fernanda Eberstadt, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph J. Ellis, James Ellroy, Anne Frank, Lee H. Hamilton, Carl Hiaasen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Thomas Kean, John Keegan, Christopher Lasch, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriella De Ferrari, Cormac McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, P. D. Ouspensky, Christopher Paolini, Henry Petroski, Ezra Pound, Anne Rice, Dorothy Richardson, Andy Russell, Susan Swan, Donna Tartt, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Andrew Vachss, Carl Van Vechten, James D. Watson, Edmund White and Elinor Wylie.

Over the years, the festival has hosted such luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Joan Baez, Anita Baker, The Ballet Russe, The Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Luciano Berio, Leonard Bernstein, Lucrezia Bori, Dave Brubeck, Sandip Burman, Montserrat Caballé, Glen Campbell, Pablo Casals, Chicago, Van Cliburn, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Aaron Copland, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, Placido Domingo, Doobie Brothers, Jackie Evancho, Horacio Gutierrez, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Dorothy Dandridge, Duran Duran, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Ella Fitzgerald, Renée Fleming, Aretha Franklin, George Gershwin, Jose Greco, Buddy Guy, Hall & Oates, Marvin Hamlisch, Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Jascha Heifetz, John Houseman, Jennifer Hudson, Janis Joplin, The Judds, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Chaka Khan, Lyle Lovett, Patti LuPone, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Yo-Yo Ma, Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Idina Menzel, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Mandy Patinkin, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Peter, Paul & Mary, Robert Plant, Bernadette Peters, Oscar Peterson, Bonnie Raitt, David Sanborn, Beverly Sills, Stephen Sondheim, Isaac Stern, Sting, Elaine Stritch, Donna Summer, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Clara Ward, Orson Welles, Frank Zappa and Denis Matsuev.

This 750 seat showroom, whose opening act was comedian Red Skelton, made entertainment a priority at Harrah's and saw luminaries such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne, Bob Dylan, The Supremes, Donna Summer, Peggy Lee, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Dolly Parton, Sergio Franchi, Joan Rivers, Liza Minnelli, Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Carol Burnett, Danny Thomas, Dean Martin, Jimmy Durante, Harry Belafonte, Sarah Vaughan, Tennessee Ernie Ford, George Gobel, Wayne Newton, Sonny & Cher, Phyllis Hyman, Lawrence Welk, Bill Cosby, and Sammy Davis, Jr., among others.