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	The Celebrity Collector: Joan van Ark
		So sure was Joan van Ark's father that his daughter would become a famous star that he named her after one of history's most prominent figures: the French heroine Joan of Arc.
		Joan of Arc was, of course, eventually burned at the stake, insuring her place in history as a martyr for the cause.
		Van Ark found out just how dear her items were to her when three gold Joan of Arc medals that she had bought in France while on her honeymoon in 1968 and always wore for good luck while performing, were stolen.
	www.go-star.com /antiquing/vanark.htm (1454 words)

	Joan Van Ark - Bio - Young and Restless - Soap Opera Digest and Weekly
		Joan Van Ark was born in New York and is married to her high school sweetheart, John Marshall, a former award winning TV newsman.
		Joan was the second youngest student to attend the Yale School of Drama on a scholarship.
		Joan joined the cast of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS in April 2004, in the role of Gloria Fisher, the mother of troubled Kevin Fisher and longtime Genoa City resident Michael Baldwin.
	www.soapoperadigest.com /soapstarstats/joanvanark (416 words)

	Words For My Enjoyment » Blog Archive » Words For Your Enjoyment: Joan vs. Joan
		One of the biggest differences between Joan Van Ark and Joan of Arc is the fact that Joan of Arc thought God was talking to her and thus, was considered to be a tad troubled and a bit psychotic.
		Van Ark and the rest of her Beverly Hills pals have collected like the shoes and purses they so lust after.
		Van Ark (hmmm…you look at that enough times and it doesn’t seem like a real name anymore…Van Ark…Van Ark), her character Val was bordering on crazy only because no one believed that her babies were indeed alive, kidnapped by a fl market baby ring and sold to another couple.
	www.pauldavidson.net /2004/06/04/words-for-your-enjoyment-joan-vs-joan (773 words)

	NABEF NEWS RELEASE-5/30/02-JUDD HIRSCH, JOAN VAN ARK TO PRESENT AWARDS AT NABEF SERVICE TO AMERICA CELEBRATION
		Van Ark began her professional career at the Minneapolis Guthrie Theater in The Miser, followed by Death of a Salesman.
		After a season at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Joan was cast in the national touring company of "Barefoot in the Park." She recreated the role in the critically acclaimed London Company and later on Broadway.
		Van Ark earned a Tony nomination for her performance in The School for Wives, and she won the Theater World Award for The Rules of the Game.
	www.nab.org /Newsroom/Pressrel/releases/3702.htm (393 words)

	Joan Van Ark Interview
		JVA (hesitantly): I guess you know the behind the scenes things that were going on then.
		Joan, I know I read in a previous interview that you didn't think Lucy should have made more appearances than she did, but did it not bother you that after the twins were born there was no mention of Lucy at all?
		JVA: Because they were celebrating Donna Mills and she became the center but Gary and Val were supposed to be this enduring couple.
	www.arthurswift.com /experiences/joan_van_ark_interview.html (5065 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Joan Van Ark : Biography
		Though adept at comedy, Joan is better known for her soap-opera work, first as Janene Whitney on the daytimer Days of Our Lives, then as Valerie Ewing on the nighttime serial Dallas.
		Joan Van Ark remained with Knot's Landing almost up to its cancellation in 1993; when she left to do a pilot for a TV sitcom, the producers contrived to have her character blown up in a car, effectively preventing Ms.
		A little-known aspect of Joan Van Ark's career is her extensive work as a cartoon voiceover actress, notably as the leading character in the Saturday morning animated series Spiderwoman (79).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/1978/bio.jhtml (209 words)

	Joan Van Ark Live Chat
		Joan: I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
		Joan: Ok I bought all Nicollette's clothes when she was finished with them, they were all high style and size 2.
		Joan: Ok TM for the long time that I worked on Valene I had to peel my skin back as I went through the gate to the studio...
	www.knotslanding.net /chat/joan (1569 words)

	Knots Landing Actors
		Joan as she looked like, back in the 80's, when Knots Landing was watched wordlwide by millions of viewers each week.
		Joan is still a working lady, very much at the peek of her acting career!
		Joan will be 60 in June 2003, she currently resides in California.
	www.knotslanding.net /wherenow/joan.htm (342 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Star Dust
		Compounding the basic weakness in the writing are the strained, self-conscious performances of van Ark and Marshall (van Ark's real-life daughter), who don't seem to have gotten much guidance from director Ron Link.
		Van Ark and Marshall swat dialogue back and forth as if they are still trying to get comfortable with their lines.
		Van Ark's Diana immediately achieves whatever emotional state the lines call for without bothering to have a transitional thought or action.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117905968?categoryid=31&cs=1 (566 words)

	IDS: A look back (Weekend, 04/03/2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Van Ark, now 58, was a mainstay on "Knots Landing" from its premiere in 1979 until her departure in 1992 (she returned for the final episode in 1993) and won two Soap Opera Digest Awards for her portrayal of Valene.
		Although she is known to many for her television work, which also includes numerous TV movies and series guest appearances, van Ark is also an accomplished stage actress.
		Recently, in an interview with the IDS Weekend, van Ark discusses, among other things, portraying Valene, the success of "Knots Landing" and working with Julie Harris, who played her mother on the series.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=9422 (836 words)

	Joan Van Ark Pics - Joan Van Ark News - Joan Van Ark Information
		At the remains of a U.S. Naval base, Oblach, a Mok chieftain is being chased by Captain Kordon, Queen of the River Pirates and her band of river rats.
		In 1991 Joan was approached by NBC to do a pilot for a situation comedy.
		Thanks to a letter of recommendation from her idol, actress Julie Harris, Van Ark was accepted at the prestigious Yale University School of Drama, becoming the youngest person ever enrolled in the school's graduate program besides Julie Harris (Edit)
	www.tv.com /joan-van-ark/person/5825/summary.html (266 words)

	Theater News - Feature: Loose Lips - Joan Van Ark plays a meddling mother-in-law in La Jolla. Plus: Lynn Ahrens on ...
		Joan Van Ark plays a meddling mother-in-law in La Jolla.
		Joan Van Ark took "getting into character" to a new level while preparing for her role as meddling mother-in-law Harriet in the La Jolla Playhouse's production of Private Fittings, playwright Mark O'Donnell's modern update of the classic Feydeau farce Tailleur pour Dames.
		Van Ark, best known for her 15-year TV stint as Valene Ewing on Dallas and Knots Landing, didn't really need the work; she had spent the past year on the daytime soap The Young and the Restless and, for most of summer 2004, she was at the Kennedy Center in Five by Tenn.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5720 (1073 words)

	RelishNow \| TV Tim
		Van Ark was replaced on The Young and The Restless in January after a seven-month stint on the soap opera.
		In an issue of the magazine CBS Soaps in Depth, YandR head writer John F. Smith said, "We love Joan and Joan loves us, but there are some serious scheduling conflicts that have required us to do this.
		Van Ark has gone on to stage work, and is currently appearing in a San Diego production of Private Fittings.
	www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781788977&path=!news!entertainment!television&s=1037645508994 (490 words)

	Awful Plastic Surgery: Joan Van Ark Plastic Surgery Victim of the Day
		Joan Van Ark circa 1979 - notice the old fashioned nose job
		Joan Van Ark Circa 2002 - too tight face lift, wizened chicken neck that does not natch the face, more nose surgery, and an eye lift fail to stall time
		Well, now we have verification that Joan Van Ark loves plastic surgery; the quote is lifted from a TV guide article on the actress.
	www.awfulplasticsurgery.com /archives/000400.html (163 words)

	Joan Van Ark In Frogs - Soap Chat
		I think Joan also looked amazing in the film.
		She was the good girl but we still got to see her in some very revealing outfits which she looked great in.
		Van Ark really looked very young and acted very professionel!
	www.soapchat.burtonhosting.com /showthread.php?t=117669 (237 words)

	Terror on Track 9 (1992) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Enter Joan Van Ark as a nosey television reporter who always manages to arrive on the scene before every other reporter to ask Richard Crenna annoying questions about the murders.
		He enters the television studios where Joan Van Ark is in the middle of anchoring the 6 o'clock news and exposes her as 'Jazelle'.
		In what could be one of the campiest performances of all time, she goes through both her multiple personalities on-air (reminiscent to Joanne Woodward's performance in "The Three Faces Of Eve") whereupon she is arrested by security after confessing to the murders.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0105568 (559 words)

	Joan Van Ark - Young and Restless - Soap Opera Digest and Weekly
		Though Joan Van Ark (Gloria, YandR) is known to millions as Valene from the DALLAS spin-off, KNOTS LANDING, she is an accomplished stage and film actress who has worked with many Hollywood and Broadway icons over the years.
		Ray Milland: Early on, Van Ark played the female lead in the 1972 low-budget horror flick Frogs, which has now become a cult classic.
		Doug Sheehan (ex-Ben, KL; ex-Joe, GH): Van Ark reports that she lost contact with Sheehan, who played husband Ben on KL from 1983-87.
	www.soapoperadigest.com /features/yr/2004/joanvanark (1291 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gal pals come in for a 'Landing' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		GRANADA HILLS, Calif. Knots Landing glam gals Michele Lee (Karen), Donna Mills (Abby) and Joan Van Ark (Valene) were TV's original desperate housewives — loving, losing and lusting after their neighbors for 14 seasons.
		"I walked up to the photographer before we started and said, 'I think the two blondes (Van Ark and Mills) should be standing together,' because I didn't think it would look good with me in the center with a blonde on either side," says Lee, who ended up in the center anyway.
		Van Ark says the only tense reunion moment occurred during a scene when she ad-libbed: "The only reason you want to watch these reunions is to see whether we're in wheelchairs or on walkers." Another actress, whom Van Ark declines to name, demanded that the line be cut and the scene be restarted.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-06-22-knots-landing-reunion_x.htm?csp=36 (616 words)

	[No title]
		Actress Joan Van Ark Presents "Heroes in Education" Award to Calvin and Arlene Hilty
		Van Ark has appeared on countless television shows including Wonder Woman, The Nanny and Touched By An Angel.
		She is best known for her role as Valene Ewing in the television classic Dallas and Knots Landing.
	www.calottery.com /Media/CurrentQuarter/Archive/20034thQtr/031017-2.htm (281 words)

	Colorado PEOPLE in the Arts - ColoradoArts.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Van Ark has acted in many television films and has made appearances in "Dallas", Days of Our Lives, The Nanny, Cybill, Touched by an Angel, The Rockford Files and other shows.
		Aging Boulder ex-dopers might recall her kinfolk known affectionately as 'Van-Narc', a Boulder narcotics detective hated by vagabond hippy street dopers on University Hill in the early 1970s.
		Seems I recall that another Van Ark sibling was discovered growing something green and herbaceous in a greenhouse east of Boulder around the early 1980s.
	www.coloradoarts.net /text/can-people/pg-people-v.html (118 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Frogs [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sam Elliot (sans mustache) is the environmentally friendly photographer who gets stuck with Crocket's family of oddballs on their little island.
		Joan Van Ark is good as the grandaughter.
		Joan van Ark got to practice for all those years on KNOTS LANDING with her role as the sweet and sensible one.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0792845579 (1368 words)

	Camino Real
		Joan van Ark and Jean LeClerc, both appearing at The Shakespeare Theatre for the first time in "Camino Real," are Marguerite and Casanova, respectively.
		LeClerc, whose television credits include the daytime television dramas "All My Children" and "Loving," has performed on Broadway, succeeding Frank Langella in the title role of the 1979 revival of the vampire thriller "Dracula," and in many regional theatres throughout the United States and Canada.
		Joan Van Ark is as breathily desperate as she is alluringly fevered.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-adv/marketing/camino/release.html (854 words)

	New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - David Bianculli: 'Housewives' an original? 'Knot' so fast! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joan Van Ark (l.), Michelle Lee (c.) and Donna Mills have a 'Knots' reunion show this year.
		Joan Van Ark, who was stalwart Val on the series, embraced the comparison.
		It was the scene when Felicity Huffman's Lynette was sitting outside and sobbing, convinced she was a bad mother - and was joined by Marcia Cross' Bree and Teri Hatcher's Susan, who came out to comfort her.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/story/330026p-281970c.html (331 words)

	Frogs (1972)
		Jumping with action, suspense revenge and Southern Gothic charm, Frogs' stars Ray Milland, Sam Elliott and Joan Van Ark are constantly a lily away from croaking!
		Joan Crockett (Milland) is an aging, physically disable millionaire who invites this family to his island estate for his birthday party.
		But on the night of his shindig, it's nature's payback time, as thousands of frogs whip up every bug and slimy thing into a toxic frenzy until the entire environment goes environ-mental.
	www.dvdmg.com /frogs.shtml (985 words)

	The Broadway Theatre Archive Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With: Joan Van Ark David Dukes John McMartin Glenn Close
		The Broadway Theatre Archive is the most extensive catalogue of Broadway plays and great theatrical works of literature produced for television over the past five decades.
		Among them are the finest anthology series produced for the three major television networks and PBS, including "Great Performances," "American Playhouse" and "Theater in America." The New York Times has deemed this extraordinary collection as "the crown jewels" of public and network television.
	www.broadwayarchive.com /catalog_detail.asp?id=90050054 (193 words)

	B-Notes - Frogs (1972)
		A speedboat ridden by Karen (Joan Van Ark) and helmed by her brother Clint (Adam Roarke) breaks our peaceful boredom.
		Joan Van Ark (Karen) has mostly been a TV actress.
		She's best recognized for her work in Falcon Crest (both as an actress and a director) although she's been in a variety of other shows and as the voice talent for some cartoons.
	www.jabootu.com /acolytes/bnotes/frogs.htm (5440 words)

	DietFraud.com - SlimDown!! - Slim Down Solutions - d-Glucosamine
		Joan Van Ark leads all scammers in Slim Down!!
		Joan Van Ark, looked absolutely awful in her gray business suit.
		I think she must have needed the money, because it's certain she didn't need to lose the weight.
	www.dietfraud.com /Dietcraze/scams_slimdown.html (1219 words)

	Joan Van Ark - Nude Celebrity Movie Reviews
		At fifteen, the beautiful, blonde Joan Van Ark was already making a name for herself in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado, by playing Anne Frank.
		She ended up enrolling as the second-youngest student in the Yale School of Drama.
		After college, Joan was discovered by director Mike Nichols, who had her audition for the Elizabeth Ashley role in the national company of Barefoot in More...
	www.mrskin.com /Stars/05637/Joan_Van_Ark.htm?nats=MTA5MjY6Mzox (169 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But when everyone comes calling — from a meddling mother-in-law (Joan van Ark) to a beefy husband (Chris Kipiniak) to a clueless bore (Chris Hoch) — the good doctor finds that his best-laid plans have gone horribly, hilariously awry.
		Joan van Ark (Harriet) received a Tony nomination for her role as Agnes in The School for Wives, opposite Brian Bedford.
		van Ark was Valene Ewing on Dallas and Knots Landing for 15 seasons.
	www.lajollaplayhouse.com /pressreleases/PrivateFittings.doc (1528 words)

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