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- Name: JOY WENER
- English name: JOY WENER
- Native name: ---
- Alias: ['JOY BANG']
- Award: ---
Description: Cute, bubbly, and engaging blonde actress joy bang blithely epitomized the quintessential, free-spirited, groovy and funky late 1960s/early 1970s hippie girl, almost always playing with infectiously naughty, upbeat good humor the kind of brash young woman who's very open, unabashed, and uninhibited about her sexuality. she was born joy wener on june 15, 1945 in kansas city, missouri, and was raised by adoptive parents in new york city. bang made her film debut in the obscure and little-seenseparation(1968). among joy's most memorable parts are one of the titular young women inroger vadim'spretty maids all in a row(1971), a rock groupie in the excellentcisco pike(1971),woody allen's date who gets abducted by bikers inplay it again, sam(1972), and drug dealerjohn lithgow's fed-up, long-suffering girlfriend indealing: or the berkeley-to-boston forty-brick lost-bag blues(1972). moreover, bang had a rare lead as a naive biology student who runs afoul of a lethal, seductive jungle-dwelling snake goddess in the bizarre filipino fright featurenight of the cobra woman(1972) and contributed a nice turn as a flaky lady who gets attacked in a movie theater full of zombies in the equally offbeat horror odditymessiah of evil(1973) (aka messiah of evil). besides her film credits, bang also acted in tv commercials and did guest spots on such tv shows aspolice story(1973),adam-12(1968),room 222(1969),medical center(1969),hawaii five-o(1968), andmission: impossible(1966). bang was at one point romantically linked withkeith moon, the drummer for the rock groupthe who. she was also in the running for the lead in the hippie road moviethumb tripping(1972), but the role ultimately went tomeg fosterinstead. joy bang abruptly stopped acting in the mid-1970s and has since gone on to become a nurse who works and lives in minnesota.
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