Joyce Holden (born Jo Ann Heckert, September 1, 1930 – January 21, 2022) was an American film and television actress.

[citation needed] As a teenager, she modeled at a department store and used her drawing abilities to win a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute.

In the summer before Holden's senior year in high school, she and her brother went with their mother to Los Angeles, intending to spend two weeks' vacation there.

Lee Cozad wrote in the book More Magnificent Mountain Movies, "Holden found herself in a Hollywood that was awash with young brunette starlets and subsequently hung on for a couple of years, playing bit parts in 'A' movies and a few leads in 'B' pictures.

[7] On June 16, 1951, Holden married song writer Arnold Stanford in Las Vegas, Nevada.