Joan Weldon

[2] Weldon began her career singing in the San Francisco Grand Opera Company chorus.

[7] After working in film and television, she resumed her career as a singer in road company productions including The Music Man[8] and Oklahoma!

In 1953, Weldon appeared as the soprano soloist on a broadcast of The Standard Hour on NBC radio.

[4] Although her background was singing in operas, The System and her next two films, So This Is Love and Rear Guard, all had her in non-singing roles.

In 1958, she portrayed Grace Wheeler in an episode of Maverick titled "Plunder of Paradise" starring Jack Kelly, Leo Gordon and Ruta Lee.

Joan Weldon and Forrest Tucker in The Music Man (1960)