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Comedienne Joan Rivers started life as Joan Melinsky, a doctor's daughter from Larchmount, N
Comedienne Joan Rivers started life as Joan Melinsky, a doctor's daughter from Larchmount, N

Comedienne Joan Rivers started life as Joan Melinsky, a doctor's daughter from Larchmount, N

Date3/7/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Comedienne Joan Rivers started life as Joan Melinsky, a doctor's daughter from Larchmount, N.Y., who wasn't just a bit fat - she was fat fat. And it was the memory of a cruel putdown from a blind date at college that spurred her to writer The Girl Most Likely To, the movie, that tells of a former fat girl's revenge on the men who had taunted her.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0076387F
Comedienne Joan Rivers started life as Joan Melinsky, a doctor's daughter from Larchmount, N
Comedienne Joan Rivers started life as Joan Melinsky, a doctor's daughter from Larchmount, N
3/7/1978
Joan Rivers arrives for show. Comedienne and talk-show host Joan Rivers arrives at her hotel in Toronto before playing to a packed house of 3,300 peop(...)
Joan Rivers arrives for show. Comedienne and talk-show host Joan Rivers arrives at her hotel in Toronto before playing to a packed house of 3,300 peop(...)
12/3/1983
Doctors on strike front of Queens Park group call Central Toronto Position Pix of Dr Alan Kindler checking blood pressure Joan Segee
Doctors on strike front of Queens Park group call Central Toronto Position Pix of Dr Alan Kindler checking blood pressure Joan Segee
5/29/1986
Doctors on strike front of Queens Park group call Central Toronto Position Pix of Dr Alan Kindler checking blood pressure Joan Segee
Doctors on strike front of Queens Park group call Central Toronto Position Pix of Dr Alan Kindler checking blood pressure Joan Segee
11/29/1986
Man of the hour Floyd Chalmers is flanked, from left, by daughter-in-law Clarice Chalmers, grandchildren Lisa and Hamish Chalmers, and daughter Joan
Man of the hour Floyd Chalmers is flanked, from left, by daughter-in-law Clarice Chalmers, grandchildren Lisa and Hamish Chalmers, and daughter Joan
9/21/1988
Joan Weldon, Baroness Popoff in 'The Merry Widow,' went into movies for M-O-N-E-Y
Joan Weldon, Baroness Popoff in 'The Merry Widow,' went into movies for M-O-N-E-Y
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Joan Weldon, Baroness Popoff in The Merry Widow, went into movies for M-O-N-E-Y
Joan Weldon, Baroness Popoff in The Merry Widow, went into movies for M-O-N-E-Y
n.d.
Joan Weldon, Baroness Popoff in 'The Merry Widow,' went into movies for M-O-N-E-Y
Joan Weldon, Baroness Popoff in 'The Merry Widow,' went into movies for M-O-N-E-Y
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Crusading doctor: Dr. Joan Charboneau, examining a patient in her office in Mississauga, is out spoken in her opposition to strict government control of medicare
Crusading doctor: Dr. Joan Charboneau, examining a patient in her office in Mississauga, is out spoken in her opposition to strict government control of medicare
6/12/1981
A Day's work: Sandra Smith, left, with daughter Nickesha, checks out 2-day-old Nicole, whose mom, Joan Peck, seated in middle, talks to Anna Lauricella and daughter Frances at York-Finch Hospital
A Day's work: Sandra Smith, left, with daughter Nickesha, checks out 2-day-old Nicole, whose mom, Joan Peck, seated in middle, talks to Anna Lauricella and daughter Frances at York-Finch Hospital
11/8/1995
John J. Robinette, daughter, new son-in-law. Joan Robinette is wed. Winter white flowers in standards adorned Trinity college chapel last evening for (...)
John J. Robinette, daughter, new son-in-law. Joan Robinette is wed. Winter white flowers in standards adorned Trinity college chapel last evening for (...)
12/18/1959
Rev. Harold Neal Burgess and his wife having dinner with their children. Doing the serving is 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Joan (right) is 14
Rev. Harold Neal Burgess and his wife having dinner with their children. Doing the serving is 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Joan (right) is 14
2/20/1965