Joyce Coad

Joyce Coad
Born	(1917-04-14)April 14, 1917
Died	May 3, 1987(1987-05-03) (aged 70) March Air Force Base, Riverside County, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1926–1933

Joyce Coad (April 14, 1917 – May 3, 1987) was an American child actress in motion pictures.

Child prodigy

Coad's foster father was Raymond E. Coad.[1] By the age of five she became a reader of children's stories on radio station KHJ in Los Angeles.[2]

Film actress

Coad moved to Los Angeles at the same time in 1926 that Metro Goldwyn Mayer was searching for a "million dollar baby". She won the contest conducted by the Los Angeles Evening Express.[3] She also received a contract to perform on radio station KNX in Hollywood. Her programs included recitations, songs, and stories.[4]

She performed the role of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter (1926), a film which featured Lillian Gish. Louis B. Mayer chose Victor Seastrom to direct the movie. Drums of Love (1928), directed by D.W. Griffith, is set in the middle of the nineteenth century in South America. Coad appeared in the role of the little sister in a screen production which starred Lionel Barrymore, Don Alvarado, and Tully Marshall.

The number of her film appearances declined after 1931. She played the role of Elsa The German Milkmaid in Captured! (1933). In June 1937 Coad was cast in The Deerslayer, which was being filmed by Standard Pictures. She was twenty years old.

Death

Coad died at March Air Force Base, Riverside County, California in 1987, aged 70, from undisclosed causes.^[citation needed]

Select filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1926	The Devil's Circus	Little Anita
	The Scarlet Letter	Pearl
1927	Children of Divorce	Little Kitty
	Mother	Betty Ellis
	The Magic Garden	Amaryllis Minton, as a child
	One Woman to Another	The Niece
1928	Drums of Love	The Little Sister
1931	Blood and Thunder		(uncredited)
	Devotion	Elsie	(uncredited)
	X Marks the Spot	Gloria
1933	Captured!	Elsa the German Milkmaid

References

1. "Riches sought for Joyce Coad". Los Angeles Evening Express. California, Los Angeles. April 22, 1931. p. 17. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Tune In On These Tonight". The Pomona Progress Bulletin. California, Pomona. October 1, 1924. p. 9. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Winners in Evening Express Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Baby Contest". Los Angeles Evening Express. California, Los Angeles. March 8, 1926. p. 11. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Joyce Coad retains her love for broadcasting on radio". Los Angeles Evening Express. California, Los Angeles. August 1, 1929. p. 8. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

• "New Voices On Air". Los Angeles Times. October 19, 1924. p. B8.
• "Child Prodigy Given Place in Picture Cast". Los Angeles Times. November 29, 1925. p. C29.
• "Film to Start". Los Angeles Times. June 7, 1937. p. A16.
• "Orphan Adopted in Wyoming Turns Out To Be Screens' Million Dollar Child". Middletown Daily Times-Press. May 8, 1926. p. 10.
• "A Nathaniel Hawthorne Classic". New York Times. August 10, 1926. p. 19.
• "Screen Notes". New York Times. November 21, 1926. p. X5.
• "Paolo and Francesca". New York Times. January 25, 1928. p. 20.
• "At Syracuse Theaters". Syracuse Herald. January 20, 1932. p. 10.

External links

• Joyce Coad photo from silentsaregolden.com, retrieved 2-13-08.