Comfort and Joi

The story of the Hollywood pinup star of Singin' in the Rain, Touch of Evil, and Bigfoot

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by Joseph Dougherty

Type: Biographies
Subject: Actress > Joi Lansing
Keywords: Joi Lansing, actress
Publishing date: 2025 (March 21, 2025)
Publisher: Tucker DS Press
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Hardcover • 202 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9597483-4-2

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Book Presentation:
Comfort and Joi uses one fan’s obsession with a blonde bombshell to explore our fascination with the movies.

Memory and movies collide when the narrator of Comfort and Joi, award-winning screenwriter Joseph Dougherty’s imaginative blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and work of bosomy blonde Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl who appeared in such “classics” as Hillbillys in a Haunted House and Queen of Outer Space.

Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a winter weekend, he indulges his infatuation with a pinup who rose from extra girl to working with Orson Welles, only to end her career in grade-Z horror pictures.

Offbeat movie history from the fringes of Hollywood triggers personal memories as he follows this “beautiful beacon in a Sargasso of bad filmmaking” and finds an unexpected path to his own past.

“Joseph Dougherty is a fantastically gifted writer. His observations are haunting, funny, and completely original.”

—Christopher Guest

“A meditation on movie love structured as tautly as a good noir screenplay.” —Fearless Reviews

“A book about Hollywood and Pop Culture like no other.”

—The Fedora Chronicles

“Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look, listen, choose, and commit. His work is as encouraging as it is enlightening.”
— Douglas Heil, Prime-Time Authorship