on December 27, 1965.]]Joey Heatherton (born September 14 1944) is an American actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s. Daughter of Ray Heatherton Christened Davenie Johanna, Joey is a native of the Long Island village of Rockville Centre, a suburb of New York. While living in Rockville Centre she attended St. Agnes Cathedral School, a Catholic grade and high school. Her father was the vaudevillian and television pioneer Ray Heatherton (1909 – 1997). Stardom in the 1960s Joey began her career as a child actress and received her first sustained national exposure in 1959 as a semi-regular on The Perry Como Show, playing an exuberant teenager with a perpetual crush on the fiftyish "Mr. C". Another middle-aged crooner who was the object of her on-screen adoration was Dean Martin who, starting with the premiere episode of September 16, 1965, invite