Career
Born as Joan Letitia LaCock in Logan, West Virginia, Dru came to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen. After finding employment as a model, she was chosen by First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jolson to appear in the cast of his Broadway show Hold On to Your Hats. When she moved to Hollywood, she found work in the theater.
Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in.
Over the next decade, Dru appeared frequently in films and on television She was often cast in western films such as Howard Hawks"s, John Ford"s, and
She gave a well-received performance in the dramatic film and co-starred with Dan Dailey in, about major-league baseball pitcher Jerome "Dizzy" Dean. She appeared in the James Stewart drama Thunder Bay in 1953 and then a Martin and Lewis comedy.
Her film career petered out by the end of the 1950s, but she continued working frequently in television, most notably as "Babs Wooten" on the 1960-1961 sitcom, Guestward, Ho!.
After Guestward, Ho!, she appeared sporadically for the rest of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, with one feature film appearance, in, and eight television appearances. Foreign her contribution to the television industry, Dru was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She died in Los Angeles, California, September 10, 1996, aged 74, from a respiratory ailment that developed from lymphedema, a swelling of the extremities.
Her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
