Joy Harmon, forever known for her brief turn in the Paul Newman classic Cool Hand Luke as the young woman who provocatively washes a car with lots of soapy water as overheated prisoners in the chain gang look on, has died. She was 87.
Harmon died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, her family announced.
Blond, blue-eyed and perpetually tanned, Harmon served as Groucho Marx’s assistant on the 1961 CBS game show Tell It to Groucho, then starred as a girl in Hawaii who gets mixed up in a robbery in the beach party movie One Way Wahine (1965).
Related Stories
She also showed up on lots of TV shows, from The Beverly Hillbillies, My Three Sons, Burke’s Law, Gidget and Batman to Bewitched, Occasional Wife, That Girl, The Monkees and The Odd Couple.
In an interview with author Tom
...Keep reading this article on Hollywood Reporter.
