Joyce Taylor born Joyce Crowder September 14 1937 is an American actress She starred in movies and TV series mostly in the 1950s and 1960s Born in Taylorville Illinois Joyce Taylor sang in amateur shows at age ten and turned professional when she was a very grownuplooking 15 signing on with Mercury Records She was under contract to Howard Hughes RKO in the 1950s but the eccentric and enigmatic tycoon only allowed her to act in one picture a small part in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 After the end of seven frustrating years bottled up by Hughes she became a regular on the TV scifiadventure series Men Into Space 1959 and acted in many other TV shows as well as a handful of features IMDb Mini Biography