ACTOR

Joanne Dru

1922 - 1996

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Joanne Dru (born Joan Letitia LaCock; January 31, 1922 – September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, All the King's Men, and Wagon Master. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joanne Dru has received more than 1,459,361 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Joanne Dru is the 3,324th most popular actor (down from 2,617th in 2019), the 4,996th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,207th in 2019) and the 1,491st most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Joanne Drus by language

Over the past year Joanne Dru has had the most page views in the with 182,792 views, followed by German (17,123), and Spanish (11,307). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (836.36%), Basque (69.29%), and Afrikaans (68.86%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joanne Dru ranks 3,324 out of 13,578. Before her are Gérard Lanvin, Ruth Roman, Matt Bomer, Dora Gerson, Alan Thicke, and Bonnie Bartlett. After her are Diana Bracho, So Yamamura, Ronee Blakley, Henry Gibson, Richard Hatch, and Joan Van Ark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Joanne Dru ranks 246. Before her are Blaga Dimitrova, Sabino Barinaga, Micheline Ostermeyer, Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, Nancy Mackay, and Ruth Roman. After her are John Hick, Lennart Nilsson, Donald Keene, Otmar Suitner, Tomás Maldonado, and Charles Gérard. Among people deceased in 1996, Joanne Dru ranks 171. Before her are Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, Imre Kovács, Gyula Kállai, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Dorothy Lamour, and Akram al-Hawrani. After her are Laurens van der Post, Gottfried von Einem, George Burns, Kenneth Bainbridge, Rob Hall, and George Kojac.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joanne Dru ranks 4,996 out of 20,380. Before her are Louise Bryant (1885), Judy Collins (1939), Sam Jones (1933), Bonnie Bartlett (1929), Frank Muller (1862), and William Masters (1915). After her are Joseph Colombo (1923), Ronee Blakley (1945), Henry Gibson (1935), Leon Russell (1942), Richard Hatch (1945), and Zakk Wylde (1967).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Joanne Dru ranks 1,491. Before her are Clarence Nash (1904), Herbert Ross (1927), Brie Larson (1989), Ruth Roman (1922), Matt Bomer (1977), and Bonnie Bartlett (1929). After her are Ronee Blakley (1945), Henry Gibson (1935), Richard Hatch (1945), Joan Van Ark (1943), James Russo (1953), and Michael C. Hall (1971).

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Television and Movie Roles

Super Fuzz
Rosy Labouche
While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed finds himself in the middle of a radiation experiment conducted by the American government and NASA, where a detonated nuclear missile gives him a multitude of superpowers.
Sep 18o 19806.5 / 10
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Olivia Dandridge
After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Native Americans, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.
Oct 22o 19496.922 / 10
Red River
Tess Millay
Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.
Aug 26o 19487.384 / 10