- Playboy Playmate of the Month November 1958
- An avid consumer activist, she served 2 years as national director of Fight Inflation Together.
- Living in California working with her husband's firm (as does her daughter Dina Sheets-Roth). Also serves as a religious counselor to troubled teenage boys. (May 2003)
- In 1966, she suffered a serious back injury as a result of a horseback riding accident during the filming of Gunpoint (1966) starring Audie Murphy. She stopped working in films after that and concentrated on television.
- She had a daughter, Sherrye, from her first marriage to Chuck Staley. Husband, Dale Sheets, had 3 children from his first marriage. Joan and Dale have three children: Stephanie, Greg, and Dina. Together they raised 7 children. They now have 10 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild (as of 2003).
- Was a Hollywood Deb Star of 1962.
- In early 1958, Lawrence Schiller, a Life photographer, approached asked her to pose nude for Playboy. They did a photo shoot together, which resulted in the actual spread used by the magazine. Publisher Hugh Hefner selected her to be Playboy's "Miss November" 1958.
- Her second husband Dale Sheets, formerly an MCA-Universal executive, formed International Ventures, Inc., located in Valencia, California, a company for theatrical personal management that schedules bookings for entertainers.
- Her body was Cremated and her Ashes were given to family or friend.
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