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Deadline Hollywood reports:

Joan Weldon, stage actress and a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1950s who achieved lasting sci-fi fame in the creature feature giant ant classic Them!, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She was 90.

Her death was only recently announced by her family. A cause was not specified, but the family notes that she “passed away peacefully” at home.

“A talented and successful opera singer and actress of theatre, film, musicals and television, she was simply known to many as Joanie,” the family writes, “whose love for light-hearted pranks and practical jokes spread joy wherever she went.”

Joan Weldon Dies: Actress Terrorized By Giant Ants In Sci-Fi Classic ‘Them!’ Was 90 https://t.co/B63mj6lK5x

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 4, 2021