Prowse hosted the Championship Ballroom Dance Competition on PBS. Death In 1994, Prowse was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In 1995, she went into remission and was well enough to tour with Mickey Rooney in Sugar Babies. The cancer subsequently returned and she died on September 14, 1996, eleven days short of her 60th birthday. Her ex-husband, television actor John McCook, is the father of her only child, Seth. Filmography Film Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) as Specialty Dancer (uncredited) Can-Can (1960) as Claudine G.I. Blues (1960) as Lili The Fiercest Heart (1961) as Francina The Right Approach (1961) as Ursula Poe The Second Time Around (1961) as Rena Mitchell Run for Your Wife (1965) as Jenny Dingaka (1965) as Marion Davis Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965) as Norah Dain Spree (1967) as Herself (documentary) Television Adventures in Paradise as Simone (season 2, episode 6 "A Whale of a Tale") The Red Skelton Show as Daisy June (season 12, episode 2 in 1962) Burke's Law as Angel Crown /(2 episodes, 1963–1964) The Dean Martin Show (3 February 1966, and 14 September 1967) Mona McCluskey as Mona Carroll McCluskey (1965–1966) The Danny Thomas Hour as Aphrodite (1 episode, 1967) The Name of the Game as Aja Fowler (1 episode, 1968) The Carol Burnett Show in London (1970) (TV) as guest performer Second Chance (1972) as Martha Foster Tattletales as Herself The Muppet Show as Herself (1 episode, 1976) Match Game 77 as Herself (5 episodes, 1977) Musical Comedy Tonight II (1981) (TV) The Love Boat as Samantha Bricker (3 episodes, 1979–1984), as Faye Marsh (episode 65 and 66, 1984) Fantasy Island (1 episode, 1983) Glitter (1984) (TV) Murder, She Wrote as Valerie Bechet (1 episode, 1987) Stage work Kismet (1955) Eddie Fisher at the Winter Garden (1962) Irma La Douce 1963, 1966 (Houston Music Theater), 1968 The Boy Friend (1966) Sweet Charity (1967; 1971) Mame (1969; 1990; 1994) Damn Yankees (1972) The Pajama Game (1973) I Do! I Do! (1976) Funny Girl (1984) Follies (1987; 1988; 1990) Chicago (1992) Sugar Babies (1995) See also List of dancers References External links Time/Life photos of Juliet Prowse 1936 births 1996 deaths American female dancers Dancers from California American film actresses American musical theatre actresses American television actresses Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from pancreatic cancer Actresses from Mumbai Actresses from Los Angeles South African actresses South African female dancers South African emigrants to the