Joan Shawlee
American actress (1926-1987) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 61
Joan Shawlee was an American film and television actress. She is known for her recurring role as Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell in The Dick Van Dyke Show, a career-defining turn in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) playing Sweet Sue, the abrasive martinet in charge of Marilyn Monroe's all-girl jazz band, and as...
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Crazy like a FoxSeries, Manager
City HeatFilm, 1984Peggy Barker1981
Buddy BuddyFilm, Receptionist1976
Quincy, M.E.Series1975
S.W.A.T.Series
Farewell, My LovelyFilm, 1975Woman in Ballroom1972
Emergency!Series, Heather1969
Love, American StyleSeries, Bernice Franks1968
Adam-12Series, Mrs. Lorena Getz
Live a Little, Love a LittleFilm, 1968Robbie's Mother1967
The Reluctant AstronautFilm, Blonde in Bar1964
Guerillas in Pink LaceFilm, Miss Gloria Maxine1963
Critic's ChoiceFilm, Marge Orr1961
The Dick Van Dyke ShowSeries, Pickles Sorrell1959
Some Like It HotFilm, Sweet Sue1957
MaverickSeries, Madame Pompey1955
Bowery to BagdadFilm, Velma, alias "Cindy Lou Calhoun"1953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Angie McGonigle
All AshoreFilm, 1953Hedy1952
Because of YouFilm, Autograph Seeker (uncredited)1950
The Bob Hope ShowSeries1947
Buck Privates Come HomeFilm, Sylvia Hunter1946
House of HorrorsFilm, Stella McNally1926Born5 March 1926People around Joan
Close ties
Billy Wilder Directed Some Like It Hot and Irma la Douce
Jean Yarbrough Directed House of Horrors and Inside Job- I. A. L. Diamond Wrote The Apartment and Some Like It Hot
Jack Lemmon Also in The Apartment and Irma la Douce
George Cukor Directed A Star Is Born and The Marrying Kind
Roger Corman Directed The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)- Charles Barton Directed Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Robert J. Wilke Also in From Here to Eternity (1953)
Don Porter Also in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Mickey Shaughnessy Also in From Here to Eternity (1953)
Franklyn Farnum Also in Some Like It Hot and A Star Is Born
Frank Sinatra Also in From Here to Eternity and Tony Rome
Shirley MacLaine Also in The Apartment and Irma la Douce
Ernest Borgnine Also in From Here to Eternity and Willard
Fred Zinnemann Directed From Here to Eternity (1953)
Marie Windsor Also in Critic's Choice (1963)
Byron Haskin Directed Conquest of Space (1955)- Jack Starrett Directed Kiss My Grits
Charles Matthau Produced Buddy Buddy (1982)- Richard Levinson Produced Columbo
Aaron Rosenberg Produced Tony Rome (1967)
Audrey Young Also in Lover Come Back and Song of Scheherazade- Billy Beck Also in Irma la Douce and Buddy Buddy
- Dan Greenburg Produced Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Known for
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The Apartment 1960
Some Like It Hot 1959
Irma la Douce 1963
From Here to Eternity 1953
A Star Is Born 1954
Filmography 40
82 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
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About this person
She is known for her recurring role as Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell in The Dick Van Dyke Show, a career-defining turn in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) playing Sweet Sue, the abrasive martinet in charge of Marilyn Monroe's all-girl jazz band, and as the flamboyant Madame Pompey in the 1957 Maverick episode "Stampede" with James Garner. She was sometimes credited under her birth name.
