Jan 9, 2020
Acclaimed character
actress Joyce Van Patten has appeared in everything from
Desperate
Housewives to
Bad News
Bears; from
The Danny Kaye
Show, to our
ever-favorite, Diane, to over twenty Broadway shows. So where do we
even begin!? You Might Know Her From Monkey Shines, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!,
Mame, Grown Ups, and
numerous productions of Neil Simon works. JVP is the sister of
character actor, Dick Van Patten, but she is also the first mother
of one of our previous guests, Talia Balsam. Joyce gave us the
skinny on getting her start as a child actor, working with a cast
of Saturday Night
Live alums, starring in
the historic film version of Mame with Lucille Ball, and working with Dinah
Manoff and Nell Carter in our favorite incredibly strange
film, Maid for Each
Other. Fill your iced
tea glass with us and enjoy our chat with the wonderful Joyce Van
Patten.
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Discussed this week:
Joyce’s brother Dick Van Patten
Gypsy with Ethel Merman “Rose’s Turn”
Ex-husband, character actor, Martin Balsam
Diane (2019) dir: Kent Jones
Monkey Shines (George A. Romero)
Sponge bathing Jason Beghe 1:28:02
Joyce’s death scene in Monkey Shines
God’s Pocket (directed by son-in-law, John Slattery) w/ JOhn Tutrurro and Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Maid for Each Other w/ Dinah Manoff and Nell Carter
I Oughta Be in Pictures (Neil Simon) also with Dinah
Brighton Beach Memoirs (Neil Simon)
Toured with Same Time Next Year
Joyce was on The Danny Kaye Show (Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker)
Peter “no purple” Sellers was mean to Jo Van Fleet
Drew Barrymore and Robert Osborne love I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Dustin Hoffman and his method bullshit
Grown Ups (Dennis Dugan)
Joyce’s monologue from Grown Ups (Kevin James not great, Salma Hayek was nice)
Mame (1974) with Lucille Ball and Robert Preston
Joyce with Milton Berle on Jack Benny
Niece-in-law is Eileen Davidson
Played Carol Prudy on Desperate Housewives opposite Paul Dooley & Teri Hatcher
Worked with Peter Friedman in
The Great God
Pan (Amy
Herzog)
Everyone loved Annie Baker’s
Circle Mirror
Transformation
Wants to do a Greg Pierce play