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Currently, Joan Bradshaw is 88 years, 0 months and 11 days old. Joan Bradshaw will celebrate 89rd birthday on a Monday 14th of April 2025. Below we countdown to Joan Bradshaw upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Joan Bradshaw |
| Occupation | Production Manager |
| Age | 88 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | April 14, 1936 (Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA) |
| Birthday | April 14 |
| Town/City | Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Joan Bradshaw’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Joan Bradshaw was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.
Joan Gail Bradshaw is the daughter of John Powers Bradshaw (1907-1987) and Mary Elizabeth Merkle (1912-1998), who married in 1935 in Carter County, Oklahoma. After Joan's birth in 1936, the family settled eventually in Houston, Texas, where her father owned an ice cream company.
He also acquired some horses and Joan began riding as early as age 3.Joan was listed as a sophomore student at Houston's John Reagan High School in the 1952 school yearbook. It turned out to be her final school year.
She quit school at age 15. She entered several beauty pageants and various beach contests. She won her first beauty contest at age 16. Joan was crowned Miss Texas USA on July 4, 1953, in only the second year of the pageant, and was a semi-finalist (top 15) in the Miss USA pageant held in Long Beach, California, on July 16, 1953.
The Miss Universe pageant was held at the same time and venue in those days. Joan competed but did not win. She later admitted, like many of the other girls competing, that she was under the minimum age of 18 required for the pageant.
Her physical description at that time was 5 feet, 4 inches tall, 113-15 pounds, brunette, brown eyes, with measurements of 36-23-36. Her bust size increased to 38 a few years later. Her talents for the pageant were singing, sport, and ice skating.
Joan returned to Houston where she worked as a receptionist for the Texas Company, which later became Texaco. Eventually, she went to New York and became the girl who danced the mystery dance on the weekly Arthur Murray Party television show.
She met actress Jean Simmons, who suggested a movie career. So she headed west. She scored ten acting roles in her first 14 months in Hollywood and became a starlet and model in the mid- to late 1950s.
She scored a social coup at celebrity clothier Sy Devore's Halloween party by arriving with Elvis Presley in 1957.At age 25 in 1961, she married 56 year-old movie producer, Frank Ross (1904-1990), and she promised to give up her acting career forever.
She did. Contrary to erroneous reports, the gorgeous Joan Bradshaw so famously photographed by Earl Leaf walking down Hollywood and Vine with her toy poodle in September 1957 did not go on to become a successful movie producer.
The producer by the same name is a different person.Eventually she returned to her home state of Texas, where she operated a tiki bar and motel for several years. She sold her bar and still splits her time between South Padre Island, Texas, and Los Angeles, California.
