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Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson (July 9, 1915 – January 29, 2005)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tim Dunleavy, Biography for Joan Tompkins )〕 In the 1962-1963 television season, Tompkins played legal secretary Trudy Wagner in twenty-eight episodes of Edmond O'Brien's NBC legal drama ''Sam Benedict'', co-starring Richard Rust. From 1967-1970, she guest starred nine times as Lorraine Miller in Fred MacMurray's CBS situation comedy, ''My Three Sons'', with her last appearance in the episode "St. Louis Blues" on December 19, 1970.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joan Tompkins )〕 According to the Social Security Death Index, Tompkins, listed as Joan Swenson at death, was living in New York when she procured her Social Security number, probably in the late 1930s.〔 In 1938, at the age of twenty-three, she joined Henry Fonda in performing plays in White Plains, New York. Thereafter, she performed on radio in the soap opera role of Nora Drake on ''This Is Nora Drake'', which ran on CBS radio until 1959. She appeared on Broadway in New York City in stage productions of ''Pride and Prejudice'' and ''My Sister Eileen''. During her radio performances, she met Karl Swenson, who portrayed the Scandinavian Lars Hanson on Michael Landon's ''Little House on the Prairie'' NBC television series. Tompkins herself guest starred twice on ''Little House''. The couple married sometime after Swenson and his first wife, the former Virginia Hanscom (1908–2003),〔 divorced. They were living in southern California by 1957.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=In Memory of Karl Swenson (1908-1978) )〕 ==Film roles== Tompkins's film roles included that of Aunt Thora from Denmark in ''The Christine Jorgensen Story'' (1970), who gives the world's first transsexual, George Jorgensen, the name "Christine", after her deceased daughter and George's cousin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Christine Jorgensen Story'' )〕 She appeared as Miss Musto in the comedy film ''Popi'', starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno. In the story line, Popi, a poor Puerto Rican widower living in Harlem, New York, hatches a bizarre plot to get his two sons, who will claim to be Cuban shipwrecked off the Florida coast so that they will be adopted by wealthy parents who learn of their plight from the expected press coverage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Popi'' )〕 Tompkins appeared as Judge Beth Weaver in ''Zigzag'', an American film based on the British picture ''False Witness''. George Kennedy plays an insurance investigator dying from a brain tumor. He confesses to a murder he did not commit to collect the reward money. During his murder trial, he collapses and is rushed to the hospital. After he undergoes surgery, he emerges healed. He then faces the task of denying he is a killer but merely a liar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Zigzag'' )〕 Tompkins appeared as Grandma Dennison in the 1970 comedy ''I Love My Wife'', about a bored adulterous surgeon starring Elliott Gould, with Brenda Vaccaro as his pregnant wife, based on a musical of the same name. Angel Tompkins appears in the film as Gould's mistress, with Dabney Coleman cast as her husband.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''I Love My Wife'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joan Tompkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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