Trivia

Mother of actress Talia Balsam. Mother-in-law of actor John Slattery. Former mother-in-law of George Clooney.

She played the wife of her ex-husband Martin Balsam in St. Elmo's Fire (1985).

Daughter of Richard Byron Van Patten and wife Josephine Rose Acerno. Sister of actor Dick Van Patten (they appeared together as children in Reg'lar Fellers (1941), and, decades later, in Making It (1971)). Half sister of Timothy Van Patten. Sister-in-law of Pat Poole. Aunt of Vincent Van Patten, Nels Van Patten and James Van Patten.

Made her debut at five months old modeling a baby blanket in a Sears catalog.

As a small child, she auditioned for the role of Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).

She has a son named Thomas Casey King, who was born in New York City on November 12, 1951 was from her first marriage. He has gone by the acting stage name Casey King and made his film debut at age 19 in Making It (1971) which featured both his mother Joyce Van Patten and uncle Dick Van Patten.

Half sister of Timothy Van Patten.

She made guest appearances on both of the longest running prime time dramas in US television history: Gunsmoke (1955) and Law & Order (1990).