ces, she performs a dance in a Buddhist-themed temple before connecting with her daddy.

Joanna Jane Salmon was born in London on Nov. 16, 1942. After her father, Harold, a British Royal Air Force pilot, was killed during World War II, her mother, Cecily, remarried and settled in Montreal.

Joanna took the surname of her stepfather and had $1,000 with her when she moved to New York at age 16.  I thought it would last me up to two years,  she said in a 1967 interview.  I'd never really fended for myself before and didn't realize how fast money could go. The whole nest egg was gone in three months. 

Pettet studied acting at Neighborhood Playhouse and made her Broadway debut in the 1961-62 Hal Prince-produced comedy Take Her, She's Mine, starring Art Carney and Elizabeth Ashley and directed by George Abbott.

She was back on Broadway in 1964 in the comedies The Chinese Prime Minister and, opposite Alan Bates and Gene Hackman, Poor Richard, for which she received a Theatre World award for her efforts. In the latter, she served as a last-minute replacement for Knight, who quit shortly before the production was to open in New York.

Also in 1964, Pettet appeared on an episode of ABC's Route 66 and began a stint as a nurse on the NBC daytime serial The Doctors. Two years later, she played a dancer whose life and career is threatened by a rare neuromuscular disease on NBC's Dr. Kildare, starring Richard Chamberlain.

She posed in Playboy in 1968 to promote Blue.

In the 1970s, Pettet starred in lots of telefilms, in the horror films Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974) and The Evil (1978) and on the NBC miniseries Captains and the Kings (1976).

She appeared as herself in a 1984 episode of ABC's Lee Majors-starring The Fall Guy alongside fellow Bond actresses Britt Ekland and Lana Wood. (The trio are hired to appear in a movie that's titled Always Say Always.)

Her final role came in the Roger Corman-produced Terror in Paradise (1990), after which she retired from acting.

She was romantically involved with Stamp and, when they were in Poor Richard, with Bates. Soon after she and Bates rekindled their relationship in 2002, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Upon his death in December 2003, he bequeathed her a reported £95,000 (that's about $265,000 in today's dollars).

 It was a very touching gesture because he had done everything while he was in hospital to make sure I would be looked after following his death,  she told The Daily Mail.