Joyce DeWitt Net Worth

Joyce DeWitt's Quotes

• [on the politics of Hollywood] If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.
• [on her stardom] Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
• [on Suzanne Somers (2009)] I rarely talk about this, but we never actually had an argument. After her fight with the producers, as part of her publicity tour to make herself seem innocent, she made John [Ritter] and I the enemy. Several times over the past 20 years I've left messages, notes, letters, and have given her the phone number for the phone that rings right beside my bed, but she has never chosen to reach me, and, yet, publicly and in the press, she still tells people that I don't speak to her.
• [2009: on rumors that she spent her pre-Hollywood years as a contractor who, after painting the garage of Barney Miller (1975) co-star Abe Vigoda, became a sort of surrogate daughter to the actor] It's totally untrue. I've never even met Abe Vigoda. I never painted his house, his garage or any other thing he has. I often wonder if he thinks I'm this crazy person who made all of this up.
• [on Farrah Fawcett] She had a beautiful heart. She was a lovely human being and such a brave woman, right up to her final moments. She chose to share her circumstances, her illness, with the world in order that those who had similar circumstances would be enlightened and inspired, and I have a great deal of respect for the way she left this life.

Interesting Facts about Joyce DeWitt

1. After Three's Company (1976) ended, she traveled the world before settling in New Mexico. She is slowly returning to acting. She and Suzanne Somers did not speak to each other for 30 years after Suzanne left the show in 1981. Finally, in February 2012, they reunited after Suzanne invited Joyce to be a guest on her web series "Suzanne Somers: Breaking Through".
2. Received her Bachelor's degree in Acting from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
3. Received her Master's degree in Acting from the University of California, Los Angeles.
4. When shooting Three's Company (1976), she always wore either pantyhose or tights, and refused to work bare-legged. Though this caused conflict between her and the show's producers, it endeared her to hosiery manufacturers, and she became the spokeswoman for L'eggs pantyhose in the late 1970s.
5. Very active in theater since the age of 13 and prefers stage work to television.
6. Auditioned as Fonzie's girlfriend on Happy Days (1974) in the late 1970s, although she did not get chosen for the role (explaining she was too short and young), she was cast as Janet Wood on Three's Company (1976) just several weeks later.
7. Is a part of the LIFE (Love Is Feeding Everyone) organization where she, and other famous actors, are helping fight world hunger and homelessness.
8. Has Irish, Italian and Swedish ancestry.
9. Is one of four children of Paul and Norma DeWitt.
10. Former high school cheerleader.
11. Is a member of Chi Omega women's fraternity.
12. On July 4, 2009, she was arrested in El Segundo, California for DUI. According to reports, police pulled her over after she drove past a barricade near a park. An officer arrested DeWitt after he became suspicious that she had been drinking and administered a field sobriety test. She was booked at the police station, cited, and released on her own recognizance.
13. (May 25, 2010) Pled no contest to misdemeanor DUI.
14. DeWitt, reunited with former Three's Company (1976) co-star Suzanne Somers on her online talk show "Breaking Through". It was the first time, that the former friends spoke to each other, since Somers' termination from the sitcom in 1981 after a salary dispute.
15. Best remembered by the public for her role as Janet Wood on Three's Company (1976).
16. In 1979, Joyce missed one episode of Three's Company (1976) titled Three's Company: Stanley's Hotline (1979), when the network tried to take back a raise that was promised, so she called in sick, because she was "sick at heart, sick in the soul". She had a meeting with the network president, who reinstated her raise. When she told her producers she was ready to go back to work, they felt there was not enough preparation time and were already working with a reworked script with recurring guest star Anne Schedeen getting Joyce's lines. She later praised Schedeen's work, calling her one of her favorite guest stars.
17. Is slowly starting to get back in show business (2003).
18. Currently lives in California and New Mexico. [August 2003]
19. Her and John Ritter's favorite episode of Three's Company (1976) is Three's Company: Up in the Air (1982). It had a long comic dance by Ritter that earned him a Emmy nomination. One of her least favorite episodes is titled Three's Company: Janet Wigs Out (1982) where her character wears a blond wig and treats everyone so badly, that one regular character Cindy (Jenilee Harrison) leaves the show entirely, never to return.
20. She lives most of the year in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has appeared at fan conventions and does act on stage around the country.