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- Birth nameJoyce Diane Bauer
- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Joyce Brothers was born on October 20, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), The King of Comedy (1982) and Spy Hard (1996). She was married to Milton Brothers. She died on May 13, 2013 in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA.
- SpouseMilton Brothers(July 4, 1949 - January 9, 1989) (his death, 1 child)
- Was a $64,000 winner on the 1950s game show, The $64, 000 Question (1955) on the subject of "boxing." Later that same decade, she won $70,000 on The $64, 000 Challenge (1956), in the same category.
- Raised in Queens and Manhattan, she earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell, with a double major in home economics and psychology, followed by a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia. In the late 1940s and early '50s, she taught psychology at NYC's Hunter College.
- Her husband Milton was an internist who specialized in diabetes treatment. It was when he was still a young resident physician making only $50 a month that Brothers decided she would commit herself to winning money on The $64, 000 Question (1955). Without knowing much about it at all, she very intentionally chose boxing as her area of expertise, and then used her remarkable memory to study it intensely for months.
- She had a daughter, Lisa (born 1953) with her husband, Milton.
- Became a licensed psychologist in 1958.
- On marriage: Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing...the secret of having it all is loving it all.
- On childhood: Feeling gratitude isn't born in us--it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
- On experience: What used to be old is middle-aged now, and what used to be ancient is just old.
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