Joy Page

Actress Joy (Ann) Page (born Joy Cerrette Paige in Los Angeles on November 9, 1924) received her exotic good looks from her father, actor Don Alvarado (real name Jose Paige), who played dashing Latin-lover types in silent films. Her mother was actress Ann Boyar (1908-1990). It was this Warner Bros. association that jump-started Joy's acting career, with a minor role in Casablanca (1942). Despite the meager role, she made quite an impression and it is still considered her best performance of the handful of films in which she's appeared. Being Warner's stepdaughter should have garnered her many more opportunities than it apparently did. Her father made him a producer almost overnight and later put him in charge of Warner Bros. Television. Film roles were few and far between after her auspicious debut and, other than Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) (with Robert Stack, in which she played a sultry vixen whom Stack tries to impress), the films were thoroughly routine.