Joan Edwards(1919-1981)
- Actress
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("Anytime", "And So It Ended", "I Love Bosco"
[commercial]), singer and pianist, a niece of Gus and Leo Edwards,
educated at Hunter College and a piano student of Raphael Samuel. She
was a pianist and featured singer with the Paul Whiteman orchestra
between 1938 and 1940, and a featured singer on radio's "Your Hit
Parade". Also, she appeared often in hotels, night clubs, and films.
She composed the Broadway stage score for "Tickets, Please", and also
wrote songs for the Copacabana revues in New York. Joining ASCAP in
1950, her musical collaborators included Lyn Duddy and her brother Jack
Edwards. Her other popular-song compositions include "Darn It, Baby,
That's Love", "You Can't Take It With You When You Go", "Do You Still
Feel the Same?", and "Television's Tough on Love".
