American actress, best remembered for films such as Mildred Pierce, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,Possessed, Daisy Kenyon, Sudden Fear, Johnny Guitar, The Women and Grand Hotel. From a 1925 movie weekly article/competition on 'naming a movie star', her description is given as "weighs 125 pounds, and is five feet five inches tall". She claimed 5ft 4 as her height. In a 1931 Photoplay article, it mentioned her height as 5ft 4, weight 110lbs and vital stats: 37-24.5-37. Shoe size 4D.

I'm not too thin. I'm five feet, four inches tall and I weigh 130 pounds.
-- The Morning Call, 1939

Well, I'm a big gal. I'm only five feet four and a half, but I have very wide shoulders, and they give people the impression that I'm big.

My figure was a real problem. I am five feet four, and my normal weight should be 130 pounds. When I took my first film test I weighed 149 and it was all solid muscle.

[at 17] for at this time I weighed one hundred and forty-five pounds of baby fat. I was self-conscious, unsure and my "style" was strictly dreadful. I hated my round face, I hated my freckles, my big mouth and eyes. I tried to stretch my five feet three as tall as possible, tossed my head in the air, poked my chin out, and dared people to notice me.

-- A portrait of Joan, 1964