Joan Peers (1909–1975) was an American stage and film actress. She enjoyed a brief spell as a Hollywood star and is perhaps best known for her role in Rouben Mamoulian's burlesque-set melodrama, Applause, in 1929. The daughter of stage actor Frank Peers, Joan was a child actress and dancer with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1917, aged six, she went on tour with Guy Bates Post in the play, The Masquerader. She appeared on Broadway in Marry the Man in 1929, but the play closed after only eight performances. Her brief Hollywood career (1929-1931) included two good parts in Applause (1929) and Tol'able David (1930) and then quietly petered out.