Judy Carne

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Judy Carne

Carne as Heather Finch in Fair Exchange,

1962
Born Joyce Audrey Botterill
27 April 1939
Northampton, Northamptonshire,
England
Died 3 September 2015 (aged 76)
Northampton, Northamptonshire,
England
Occupation Actress
Years activ 1957–1993
e
Spouse(s) Burt Reynolds
(m. 1963; div. 1965)
Robert Bergman
(m. 1970; div. 1971)
 Northampton, Northamptonshire,
England
Occupation Actress
Years activ 1957–1993
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Spouse(s) Burt Reynolds
(m. 1963; div. 1965)
Robert Bergman
(m. 1970; div. 1971)

L-R: Dan Rowan, Judy Carne, and Dick Martin on pilot for Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In (1967)
Joyce Audrey Botterill (27 April 1939 – 3 September 2015), known
professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress best remembered
for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

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ReferencesCareer[edit]
Carne was born in Northampton, England. Her parents, Harold and
Kathy, were greengrocers in Kingsthorpe.[1]
She received training at the Pitt-Draffen Academy of Dance, before
being accepted into the prestigious Bush-Davis Theatrical School for
Girls in East Grinstead near London. An instructor at the school began
calling her "Judy", telling her that Joyce was not a good professional
name. The second part of Judy's stage name was taken from a
character named Sarat Carn in the play Bonaventure by English
playwright Charlotte Hastings. She made her first British television
appearances on the series Danger Man (1961) and episodes of The Rag
Trade (also 1961), a BBC sitcom.
She moved to the US not long afterwards. Her first regular role was in
the sitcom Fair Exchange (1963) as an English teenager who goes to
the US to live with an American family, whose daughter (played by Lynn
Loring) has gone to live in England. That was followed by The Baileys of
Balboa (1964). She later co-starred with Pete Duel in Love on a Rooftop
(1966). She made several appearances on the adventure series The
Man from U.N.C.L.E..[2]
She had a small part in the ninth episode of the TV series Gidget (1965),
guest-starred as Jill in first-season episode 2, "Follow the Leader" and
as Floy in second-season episode 3, "Then Came The Mighty Hunter" of
12 O'Clock High (1965), and appeared in an episode of I Dream of
Jeannie (1966). She appeared in the Bonanza episode "A Question of
Strength" (1963) as Sister Mary Kathleen, two episodes of The Big
Valley (1967), guest-starred in episode 11 of the first season of Alias
Smith and Jones (1971) and the TV adaptation of QB VII (1974). Her
film roles included A Pair of Briefs (1962), The Americanization of Emily
(1964), the wife of Tom Bell in All the Right Noises (1971), and Rachel
Amodeo's street movie What About Me (1993), opposite Richard Hell
and Johnny Thunders.
On Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970) Carne gained stardom. Her
most popular routine ended with her saying "Sock it to me!", at which
point she was doused with water or assaulted in some other way. Carne
was a regular in the first two seasons (1968–69); then, having decided
the show had become "a big, bloody bore",[1] made occasional guest
appearances in the remaining 1969–70 seasons.
Carne starred in a revival of the musical The Boy Friend which opened
on Broadway on 14 April 1970 and ran for 111 performances.[3]
In 1993, Judy attended the 25th anniversary of Laugh-In and appeared
on a televised Laugh-In Christmas show.
Personal life[edit]
Carne was married to actor Burt Reynolds from 1963 to 1965 and to
producer Robert Bergmann from 1970 to 1971. Both marriages were
brief, childless, and ended in divorce. In 1978, after being found not
guilty of possessing heroin, she was involved in a car accident along
with her second husband; she recovered from a broken neck. Her drug
problem continued and she was later arrested again for heroin
possession.[4]
Her autobiography, Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The
Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl (1985), chronicled her
difficulties with drugs, her failed marriage to Reynolds, and her
bisexuality.[5]
Carne moved back to Northamptonshire, England, in the 1980s, living
quietly in the village of Pitsford.[6] She died from pneumonia on 3
September 2015 at a hospital in Northampton.[1][7][8]
Filmography[edit]
• A Pair of Briefs (1962)
• The Americanization of Emily (1964)
• All the Right Noises (1971)
• Dead Men Tell No Tales (1971, TV film)
• QB VII (1974, TV film)
• Only with Married Men (1974, TV film)
• What About Me (1993)
References[edit]
1 ^ Jump up to:
a b c Judy Carne dies: Northampton's 'Sock it to me' girl dies aged 76.

Northants Herald & Post, 7 September 2015.

2 ^ Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (2002). Film Fatales: Women In Espionage
Films and Television, 1962–1973. McFarland. pp. 89–90.
ISBN 0-7864-1194-5. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
3 ^ The Oxford Companion to the American Musical p.87
4 ^ "Judy Carne: Actress celebrated as the 'Sock it to me' girl on Rowan &
Martin's Laugh-In whose career was derailed by drug use", The
Independent, 10 September 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
5 ^ Lisanti, Paul. p. 91
6 ^ "Judy Carne, star of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, dies aged 76", BBC
News, 8 September 2015.
7 ^ Alex Stedman. "Judy Carne Dead: Laugh-In's "Sock it to Me" Girl Was
76". Variety. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
8 ^ "Judy Carne obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 7 September 2015.
Retrieved 7 September 2015.
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