Joi Lansing (born Joy Rae Brown; April 6, 1929[3] – August 7, 1972) was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer.

Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by her contemporaries Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren.

[citation needed] Lansing was discovered at age 14 by Arthur Freed, the producer, and was signed to an MGM talent school contract.

In 1958, she appeared in the famous opening sequence of Orson Welles's Touch of Evil as Zita, the dancer who dies in a car explosion at the end of the extended tracking shot after exclaiming to a border guard "I keep hearing this ticking noise inside my head!"

She had a brief role as an astronaut's girlfriend in sci-fi parody Queen of Outer Space (1958) and had fourth billing in the science fiction feature The Atomic Submarine (1959).

Lansing played "Lola" in the romantic comedy Marriage on the Rocks (1965), with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin.

[2] Lansing appeared in The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok; The Jack Benny Program; It's a Great Life; I Love Lucy; Bat Masterson; Where's Raymond?

; State Trooper; The People's Choice; Richard Diamond, Private Detective; The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour; Sugarfoot; This Man Dawson; Maverick; Perry Mason; The Joey Bishop Show; Petticoat Junction; The Mothers-in-Law; The Adventures of Superman; and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; and had a recurring role in The Beverly Hillbillies.

[7] The biggest single break of Lansing's career was from 1955 through 1959 as the character Shirley Swanson in roughly 125 episodes[5] of the The Bob Cummings Show.

The half-hour film remains available for public viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles.

[11] She appeared in a 1960 episode of The Untouchables entitled “The Noise of Death,” playing a character named Georgina Jones.

In the 1960–61 season of Klondike, Lansing appeared as Goldie with Ralph Taeger, James Coburn, and Mari Blanchard.