<P> Joy Patricia Harmon (born May 1, 1940) is a baker and former American actress . </P> <P> Joy Patricia Harmon was born in Flushing, New York . She and her family moved to Connecticut in 1946 . A runner - up for Miss Connecticut, Harmon was a contestant during the last season of Groucho Marx's television program You Bet Your Life (titled The Groucho Show during its last season), and later a regular on Marx's program Tell It to Groucho (credited as "Patty Harmon"). She guest - starred on several 1960s TV series, including Gidget, Batman, and The Monkees . She appeared in a cameo role as blonde Ardice in the Jack Lemmon comedy Under the Yum Yum Tree in 1963 . She had a role as Tony Dow's girlfriend in the 1965--66 television soap opera, Never Too Young . </P> <P> Harmon's best - remembered acting roles are as the thirty - foot - tall (9 m) Merrie in Village of the Giants (1965; where she captures normal - sized Johnny Crawford and suspends him from her bikini top), and as the car - washing "Lucille" in Cool Hand Luke (1967) and her (41--22--36) measurements </P> <P> Harmon was married to Hollywood TV and film producer and film editor Jeff Gourson from 1968 to 2001, raising three children . In 1973, she left Hollywood to devote her time to her lifelong love of baking, as she started her own company, Aunt Joy's Cakes, a bakery located in Burbank, California . </P>

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