Joan van Ark was born on June 16, 1943, in New York City, New York. Her parents were not connected to the film industry. When Joan was a teenager acting in Denver, she met actress Julie Harris, and their lives would never be the same. Julie pushed her to go to the highly regarded Yale Drama School and gain admission using a scholarship she had also set up. This made Joan Van Ark the second-ever woman to enroll at the Drama School She [Harris] wrote to the dean and asked him to meet me. “Long story short, my parents drove...
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