Joanne Copeland Carson, 2nd of Johnny Carson's 4 wives

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http://http://www.latimes.com/local/...509-story.html

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1963

1964

1964


with her close friend TRUMAN CAPOTE in 1979

[Bidmor]

In a recent epi of PBS bio of Johnny, Joanne was the one who pushed Johnny into accepting the Tonight Show. Johnny, reportedly, was hesitant about following Jack Parr (whom NBC was dropping) and following in the footsteps of Steve Allen who set the tone for the Tonight Show before Parr came along and made it into a strictly interview show. As we know, Johnny accepted and returned the show to talk/comedy format that Allen had developed.

According to the PBS bio, had Joanne not pushed Johnny into Tonight, he probably would have never taken the job.