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Actress, Joan Tompkins, was born on Jul 9, 1915 in Mount Vernon, NY. Tompkins died at the age of 89 on Jan 29, 2005 in Orange County, CA .

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Stage-actress on Broadway in "Pride and Prejudice", "My Sister Eileen" and many other plays. Early in her career, in 1938, she played opposite Henry Fonda in a run of plays in White Plains, New York.

After World War ll, Joan offered to become a foster parent for a war orphan. From many photos she choose a crippled Polish boy - Tomek Machcinski, who later became a photographer known as " the man of a million faces". In 1994 their story was portrayed in the documentary "Child from a catalog".

She was also a radio-actress,and became well known on radio in the role of Nora Drake, heroine of the soap opera, "This Is Nora Drake".

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