She was one of a bevy of sexy blondes shuffled about in 50s films, thrust into the limelight by ambitious movie studios as possible contenders to Marilyn Monroe's uncooperative pedestal. Almost none of these ladies managed to even step up to the plate when it came to the powerful allure of "La Monroe" and starlet Carol Ohmart managed to be no ...
When I left Hollywood back in the 1970s, I didn't want to slam the door and padlock it. I was happy there in the early years. I was a star and flamboyant. I was successful and popular. I left because I was tired and wanted to find me. I've spent a decade being a quiet, ordinary person. I've found my peace, my secret garden . . . My life is not serene and I'm healthy in body, mind and spirit. And my talents are actively at work in many areas. I've never, never reviled Hollywood. I love the people, the talents, the joy of making movies much too much.
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Fact
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She was 4th runner up in the Miss America Contest (1946).
She dyed her hair red and posed for artist Milton Caniff's character Copper Calhoon for the comic strip "Steve Canyon".
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According to Laura Wagner, who wrote an article on Carol in "Films of the Golden Age", Issue #81, Summer 2015, Carol befriended Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, who promised her the prostitute role in From Here to Eternity (1953). However, he eventually gave it to Donna Reed, who went on to win a Supporting Actress Oscar.
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She was a very conservative Republican.
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She was Miss Utah of 1946.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1974
Lisa Grimaldi
The F.B.I.
1973
TV Series
Emily Rountree
Barnaby Jones
1973
TV Series
Gloria Colby / Elly Hansen
Mannix
1972
TV Series
Gerda Aspinall
Caxambu!
1967
Peggy Garrat
Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
1967
Emily Howe
Branded
1966
TV Series
Laureen Macklin
Get Smart
1965
TV Series
The Countess
One Man's Way
1964
Evelyn Grace
The Third Man
1962
TV Series
Irene Portell
Everglades
1962
TV Series
Cora Johnson
The Red Uncle
1962
Short
Wild Youth
1961
Madge
Coronado 9
1961
TV Series
Jeanne
77 Sunset Strip
1959-1961
TV Series
Linda Gates / Rochelle Adrain / Sheila Storm / ...