A cancelled United States passport with a color photograph of Joanne Carson (wife of Johnny Carson)and a signature in blue ink, issued in 1978 and cancelled in 1983. With stamps to Greece. PROVENANCE From the Estate of Joanne Carson.
Sold at an US auction house was far behind estimate. Another 1952 passport from her as was also far behind estimate.
Joanne was a struggling model and he was the host of a TV game show who shyly asked her if she wanted to watch some film clips of his comedy.
Several years before they met, Joanne Carson had her own chance to get into show business. In the mid-1950s, she was a Pan Am stewardess and helped calm a passenger in first class listed as Mr. Howard. It turned out to be Howard Hughes.
It was the first date in 1960 in New York City for the future Joanne Carson and Johnny Carson, long before he became the king of late-night television.
They married in 1963 and took an apartment at the United Nations Plaza that was home to several celebrities, including, eventually, Capote. Outwardly, the Carsons were a model couple.
After the breakup of her marriage, she and Capote grew especially close. He urged her to write an autobiography and she started on it. “I was going to write a lovely story about my friendship with all these people,” she said in a Times interview. Capote even edited, heavily, a sample chapter.
Capote had a writing room at her house. He died there Aug. 25, 1984, at the age of 59.
Joanne Carson, the ex-wife of ‘Tonight Show’ host Johnny Carson, died on 15 May 2015. She was 83.
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