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Carolyn Craig (October 27, 1934 – December 12, 1970) was an American actress who was perhaps best known for her performance as Nora Manning in William Castle's 1959 shocker House on Haunted Hill. Her other film credits include a supporting performance in Giant (1956) as Lacey Lynnton, and a lead role in the 1957 film noir Portland Expose (1944), as Ruth Madison.Sometimes billed as Caroline Craig, she also made numerous guest appearances on television, including a recurring role on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. Craig made a guest appearance on the fourth episode of the CBS television series Perry Mason; she played Helen Waters in "The Case of the Drowning Duck."On April 8, 1958, Craig was cast as Edna Granger, a young woman with an unrequited romantic interest in deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp in the ABC/Desilu western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. The episode in which she appears, "County Seat War", focuses on an underhanded attempt by Fort Dodge to wrest the designation of county seat of Ford County, Kansas, from Dodge City, after it is revealed that the United States Army will abandon the fort.On April 9, 1962, Craig was cast in the episode "The Fortune Hunter" of NBC's western series, Laramie, in the role of Kitty McAllen, a young woman being pursued by a suave but nefarious suitor, the gunfighter Vince Jackson (Ray Danton). Parley Baer is cast in the segment as Kitty's wealthy father, Fred McAllen, from whom Jackson expects to extort money once he has married Kitty. However, series character Slim Sherman, played by John Smith, also has an interest in Kitty, who using Vince's interest in her as a ruse to make Slim jealous. Ultimately, Kitty leaves Laramie to attend college.From 1957 to 1961, Craig was married to Charles E. Graham and gave birth to a son in 1959. After her divorce from Graham, she was married to Arthur Bryden until April 1970.
Ironicially got her start in show business in 1955 by appearing in a series of photographs extolling the benefits of being a housewife. The photographs attempt to illustrate the health and muscular benefits of doing housework and how housewives can use cleaning tools as exercise equipment. In House on Haunted Hill (1959) she appears as "Nora Manning," a secretary at one of "Frederick Loren's" (Vincent Price) smaller companies, struggling to support herself and her relatives on a single girl's salary.
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Appeared in an AP Wire photo with Patrick Wayne (then 18) in 1958. The two were to be teamed in an upcoming television show.