"Soon you'll be joining the Theatre Club and playing ingenue roles."
Joyce appeared in the ingenue role.
Now 45, too mature for ingenue roles, and no longer in demand by major studios, she found plenty of work at the smaller, low-budget studios.
While performing in a summer stock engagement in Toledo, she created the ingenue role in Officer 666.
She was first signed in Hollywood for ingenue roles by Universal Pictures in 1921.
Miking problems aside, she handles the ingenue role of Carrie Pipperidge better than any previous recorded singer.
Do you think that seven is too young to play ingenue roles?
One is the cultivated light opera genre befitting the ingenue roles that she used to play.
Then stayed with Fallon Young, all the while fulfilling the ingenue role.
She had worked her way up through the ranks from community theater to stage productions to Hollywood, from ingenue roles to character parts.