Joyce Elaine Ingalls (January 14, 1950 – August 5, 2015) was an American actress and model, best known for her roles in Paradise Alley in 1978 and Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998. She also had a guest role in the television series Starsky and Hutch in 1979, as the mutual love interest of both main characters.^[1][2]

Ingalls was born on January 14, 1950, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Frederick G. Ingalls, a U.S. Navy commander, and Elaine Wright Ingalls, a relative of the Wright Brothers.^[1][3] Ingalls had five sisters and three brothers.^[4]

Ingalls' mother died in 1959. Her father remarried JoAnn DiSandro, who raised Joyce Ingalls and her four siblings, as well as four more children of Frederick and JoAnn.^[3]

In 1966,^[5] Ingalls won Co-Ed Magazine's^[6] national High School Cover Girl contest when she was 16.^[1][5] The contest led to a contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. She appeared in numerous fashion magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, and Vogue.^[1][2] Ingalls was the face of a 1973 advertising campaign for Yardley of London, a British cosmetics company.^[2] She also appeared in print ads for Black Velvet whisky, Breck Shampoo (as one of the Breck Girls), and Clairol.^[2]

Ingalls was best known for her role as Bunchie, a prostitute who comforts Sylvester Stallone's character, Cosmo Carboni, in the 1978 drama, Paradise Alley.^[1][2] She also appeared in The Man Who Would Not Die^[7] in 1975, Deadly Force in 1983, and Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998.^[1]

In 1978, Ingalls was named when Sylvester Stallone was sued for divorce by his wife, Sasha, "who claimed the star of Rocky used community funds for a vacation for himself and actress Joyce Ingalls."^[8] Earlier that year, gossip columnist Liz Smith had written: "Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone and his Paradise Valley co-star Joyce Ingalls are what one might call a real hot item. Mrs. Stallone knows all about it and is definitely not happy."^[9]

A 1978 newspaper article reported that Ingalls "has been married once previously but doesn't like to discuss that part of her past."^[4]

In 1984, Ingalls married Darrell Fetty, a screenwriter and actor, at the Little Brown Church in Studio City, California.^[1] They had two sons.^[10] Ingalls and Fetty oversaw their Little Brown Church's homeless ministry.^[2] They also operated the church's food pantry, now called the Darrell & Joyce Fetty Food Pantry, for nearly 25 years.^[2] The food pantry is estimated to have served thousands of families.^[2]

Ingalls died of an undisclosed illness at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on August 5, 2015, at the age of 65.^[1][2] She is survived by her husband, Darrell Fetty; two sons, her stepmother, the former JoAnn DiSandro; and eight siblings.^[2] Her father Frederick died in 1996.^[3]

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