Jacqueline Fontaine

Joyce Elaine Romeo the ravenhaired daughter of Orlando and Emma Romeo of 5606 34th Avenue in Kenosha Wisconsin studied at the nearby McKinley Junior High School and the downtown Mary D Bradford High School while simultaneously nurturing her dreams of performing before appreciative audiences She made her first such appearances in Chicago clubs before coming to Los Angeles for George Whites Scandals and Billy Grays Band Box Dorothy Kilgallen noted her in July 1946 as a dancer at LaConga and local television One such telecast caught the eye of producer Ron Ormond who signed her for Outlaw Women 1952 without a screen test Previously she had appeared with Mickey Rooney as the other woman in The Strip Also in 1952 Jacki as she was labeled on Crystalette Records songs worked with Jack Carson at the Sahatis Country Club Casino in Stateline Nevada Bing Crosby noticed her at a Pebble Beach golf tournament and cast her in The Country Girl Later she did live appearances with comic Lenny Kent at the Casino Lounge in the Mapes Hotel and in 1962 with Buddy Lester at New Facks and at the Losers Club in Hollywood and by 1965 at the Jamaica Room of the West Valley Bowl and at Sunset Boulevards Key Club Three years later she worked as a regular in a troupe with singercomic Duke Mitchell and by the 1970s she was seen at Aladdins Funny Farm the new Nine Thousand and the Fire and Flame in North Hollywood with billing calling her The Performers Performer