Jocelyn Brando (
November 18,
1919 –
November 27,
2005) was an American film, stage and television actress.
Her film debut came in the 1953 war movie
China Venture with
Edmond O'Brien and
Barry Sullivan. Her best-known movie role was as detective
Glenn Ford's doomed wife in the 1953 gangster melodrama
The Big Heat. Other featured movie roles were in films such as
The Explosive Generation (1961),
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965),
Why Would I Lie? (1980) and
Mommie Dearest (1981).
