DL Druggies: What is Joey Heatherton on here? 1982 "I Go To Rio"

Cocaine, Dexedrine, a Quaalude & vodka.

OP or anyone else here, is there video of Lorna fucked up on tape? Please share! That would be the most interesting thing about her, since, ever.

Joey was cut from the same cloth as Liza. That hyper, manic, razzmatazz style that seems so overblown and cheezy now.

And let's not forget the fabulous Lola Heatherton.

I want to bear all your children! Ha! Ha! Ha!

This number is scary!

The sad thing is Joey Heatherton started out with a dazzling voice. She just came onto the scene a bit late for her kind of talent.

Understated Joey.

15 or more years ago Joey moved into the Horace Heidt Apartments in the Valley. She was known as the mean drunk old lady of the complex. I saw her a few times at the one of the pools. She looked old but okay.

Don't get on Joey's bad side. She WILL take out the trash...

So many of the comments on YouTube are from people indignant that anyone would suggest that perhaps Joey was on any kind of substances. She was just an enthusiastic and talented performer.

Even at her most... energetic... Joey was better than this:

And these two coke whores.

This is one of the greatest courtroom performances of all time. Pardon the opening by uber cunt Cindy Adams.

Joey did Playboy in the mid 1990s. It's a shame she didn't go into the Chicago revival.

I've always felt bad for her. She was beautiful and could sing and dance with the best of them, but she really was born too late for that kind of style. Hell, Liza only barely squeezed in there at the end. I miss this style of performing. They seemed more alive and fun.

Ann-Margret made it. Joey was an indifferent actress. She also leaned towards eye fucking the camera as her default style. Would she have been a Mitzi Gaynor if she arrived in Hollywood in the late 1940s/early 1950s? I would suggest not.

Joey was certainly more talented than Connie Fucking Stevens.

R15 you mean the “exaggerated, over-performed, theatrical style”?

Yes R18. At least it had some life and they looked like they were enjoying what they were doing. Look at musical theatre actors today and tell me that bland crap is better than what people like Liza were doing. They had character and charm and you felt like you were seeing an event. Besides the fuller orchestras, better sets/costumes, and extra seats, I feel like you might as well just take in a local community theatre production and save yourself some money. Many of the performers on Broadway these days still seem to be operating at that level. Everyone is competent, but not really brilliant at anything.

She was married to a baseball player, Lance Rentzell. He was a sex criminal. He would drive up to pre teens and expose himself in his car.

Joey wasn't always... caffeinated.

Joey and an old Broadway hoofer.

Joey choreographed by Michael Bennett. I don't know if it was anatomy or just stretching but she did the best kicks of any female dancer, way further extended than Reinking.

Joey Heatherton has a cameo in the John Waters film, "Cry-Baby, (1990)."

Why did male back up dancers look so old back then?

Yes, she’s a blast but did she ever sing “The Joker” to Mother Teresa?

I had no idea she was still alive (or Lola Falana, for that matter). Joey seemed almost as coke-y in the 80s as Lauren Tewes.

R44 that’s fucking hilarious! 😝

You better make it good, r44.

R13, that is real? Omg! I have never in my life seen such over the top acting being passed off as reality! 😝 The into by Cindy Adams comes off like an excerpt from a John Water’s flick! It’s comedy gold if you ask me. Thx for posting!!

Joey is bustin' her butt for the crowd and that rude thirsty shit, Jerry Lewis, is mugging to draw away attention.

Lmao r31! I ❤️ this thread!

Joey and Jane.

That clip of Judy's second best daughter and Greg Brady is so incredibly cringe I cant believe it.

She looks like hell next to Jane. R3 captures it--unlike Liza, she had her show business pedigree was a bit weaker--her father seemed to be some sort of Broadway has-been turned local tv kid show host.

I think the high point of her career was doing Serta mattress commercials. This is one of the more exaggerated ones. Susan Anton replaced her.

She sounds pretty together here. Nice radio voice.

Rentzel played football.

R13. OMG. That face. Speed freak. Black Beauties were de rigueur in Hollywood at that time.

I knew hr when sh lived in my building - 999 Doheny Dr. She was always out of it whenever I saw her in the building. She looked so old, I don't think the sex kitten thing worked for her after she hit her mid 30's. She missed her window of opportunity, she was almost rat pack era.

She clearly developed an ED by the mid 1980s.

Seriously, how can someone go from so beautiful to that picture in that fucking red dress? Its gotta be drugs.. Like hardcore drugs

[quote]I think the high point of her career was doing Serta mattress commercials.

Joey was a tv regular in the 1960s-70s, first with her semi-regular appearances on "The Perry Como Show," then "The Dean Martin Show," and all those guest appearances on "The Tonight Show," "Ed Sullivan Show," "Andy Williams Show," "The Hollywood Palace," etc. She was a household name at the time, so it's a shame if those Serta commercials are what she's best known for.

I think starting out young in show business and doing that whole sex kitten act exposed her to a lot of creeps in the business and did a lot of damage to her mental state.

I expect her husband's pedo exploits did a number on her.

I honestly don't see anything wrong with the MDA Telethon performance, OP. Anyone who's ever seen Joey perform knows what to expect. The same for that Serta commercial at R35. Was she on coke, etc? Probably, but so was Liza. I always like Joey's sassy hair that moved with her when she danced.

I always got Joey Heatherton and Connie Stevens confused.

Connie had squintier eyes and a beautiful speaking voice.

Connie also wore terrible frosted lipstick.

Joey, or Davenie Johanna (her birth name), was lucky she made it out of the 1980s alive. Dr Feel Good was probably in her Rolodex as he was in everyone else’s.

She always looked like she was going to injure herself during her TV appearances.

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She was such a nice kid... till someone put her name in lights and turned her into a lush.

Joey had a lot of personality in her dancing. Can't say that about some other blonde sexpots of her era. She was a good dancer and took stripper and football cheerleading vibes into it with aplomb. She was sexy but not vulgar.

She was more talented than Ann-Margret who had no natural sense of rhythm.

Liza was really the very last performer of that school. Even a year later and I don't think she would've made it and we'd be talking about her like we do Lorna.