1. Carol Lynley started her film career in 1958 with the Disney film The Light in the Forest, followed by Holiday for Lovers and Blue Denim.
26 Facts About Carol Lynley
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Carol Lynley's father was Irish and her mother, a native of New England, was of English, Scottish, Welsh and German ancestry.
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Carol Lynley's parents divorced when she was a child, and her mother worked as a waitress until Lynley's income from modeling was enough to sustain the family.
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Carol Lynley had first appeared on a local television show and at the age of 14 she was signed as a child model.
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Carol Lynley then appeared on live TV shows, the Goodyear Television Playhouse, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Danger Route.
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Carol Lynley began her career as a child model under the name Carolyn Lee.
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Carol Lynley modified it by using the final syllable of Carolyn and fusing it with Lee to make Lynley.
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Carol Lynley appeared on the April 22,1957, cover of Life identified as "Carol Lynley, 15, Busy Career Girl" at age 15.
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In 1955, Carol Lynley made her first stage appearance in Moss Hart's Broadway stage hit Anniversary Waltz.
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Early on, Carol Lynley distinguished herself on both the Broadway stage and in Hollywood screen versions of the controversial drama Blue Denim, in which the teenaged characters played by Carol Lynley and co-star Brandon deWilde had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
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Carol Lynley started her film career in 1958 with the Disney film The Light in the Forest followed by Holiday for Lovers.
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Carol Lynley acted in 20th Century Fox productions Holiday for Lovers, Blue Denim, Hound-Dog Man, Return to Peyton Place and The Stripper.
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Carol Lynley appeared in many films, often portraying the blonde-girl-next-door gone bad.
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The Hollywood Reporter reported that Carol Lynley was on the peak of her career in the year 1965.
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Carol Lynley posed nude at age 22 for the March 1965 edition of Playboy magazine.
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Carol Lynley starred in the Otto Preminger directed thriller Bunny Lake Is Missing.
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Carol Lynley played Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow, co-starring Ginger Rogers, but the film failed at the box office.
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In 1967, Carol Lynley had major roles in the horror film The Shuttered Room and the British spy caper Danger Route, but the films were not successful.
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Carol Lynley did smaller roles, guest appearances and appeared in low-budget productions like Once You Kiss a Stranger, The Maltese Bippy, Norwood and the Larry Hagman directed horror spoof Son of the Blob.
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Carol Lynley then appeared in The Four Deuces, The Washington Affair and Bad Georgia Road.
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Carol Lynley acted in Flypaper, followed by the low-budget film Drowning on Dry Land.
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Carol Lynley appeared in the pilot television movies for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Fantasy Island.
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In 2000, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Carol Lynley discussed the difficulty faced by middle-aged actresses in finding roles.
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Carol Lynley had an 18-year intermittent affair with English broadcaster and writer David Frost.
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Carol Lynley died aged 77 of a heart attack on September 3,2019, at her home in Pacific Palisades, California.
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Carol Lynley was cremated; her ashes were scattered at sea off the Southern California coast.