1. Armelia Carol Ohmart, known professionally as Carol Ohmart, was an American actress and former model who appeared in numerous films and television series from the early 1950s until the 1970s.
28 Facts About Carol Ohmart
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Carol Ohmart made her feature film debut in Michael Curtiz's The Scarlet Hour in 1956, followed by various television appearances, as well as roles in several horror films, such as House on Haunted Hill and Spider Baby.
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Carol Ohmart spent the majority of her later life in Seattle, before dying of natural causes in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2002, aged 74.
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Carol Ohmart is a girl who is searching for something.
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Carol Ohmart is destined to become one of Paramount's outstanding stars.
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Carol Ohmart's parents were C Thomas Ohmart, a dentist who was first a professional actor, and his wife, Armelia Ohmart.
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Carol Ohmart's family relocated to Seattle, Washington, shortly after Ohmart's birth.
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At age twelve, Carol Ohmart sang on KFRC in San Francisco, California.
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Carol Ohmart sang on KSL, KUTA and KDYL in her hometown of Salt Lake City.
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Carol Ohmart was raised primarily in Washington state, though she briefly attended East High School in Salt Lake City, later graduating from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Washington.
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Carol Ohmart then placed fourth runner-up in the Miss America pageant.
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Carol Ohmart would serve as a model for numerous illustrations for Caniff, and was featured in a 1947 profile in Popular Photography.
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Carol Ohmart was seen on early television doing commercials, appearing on NBC's Bonny Maid Versatile Varieties, which aired Friday nights at 9 pm Carol Ohmart was seen pitching floor wax along with Anne Francis and Eva Marie Saint, the other two hostesses of the show.
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Carol Ohmart worked on The 20th Century Fox Hour and Juke Box Jury.
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Carol Ohmart moved to New York in 1955 where she worked as an understudy on Broadway.
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Carol Ohmart had steady work in television until the early 1970s, with guest roles in Bat Masterson, Ripcord, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Get Smart, Perry Mason, Tombstone Territory, and Barnaby Jones.
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Carol Ohmart had top billing in The Scarlet Hour, a Paramount film made by the distinguished director Michael Curtiz about a married woman who persuades her lover to commit a jewel robbery.
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Carol Ohmart co-starred with Anthony Quinn in a 1956 crime drama, The Wild Party.
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Carol Ohmart screamed and ran out of the room after seeing it.
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Carol Ohmart took a hiatus from appearing in films for several years, selling real estate and becoming involved in studying spiritualism, and ended up in debt.
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Carol Ohmart married three times, most notably to actor Wayde Preston.
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Carol Ohmart's poetry was compiled in a manuscript titled Song of Salt.
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Around 1973, while filming an episode of Barnaby Jones in Los Angeles, Carol Ohmart was attacked and beaten by three men on a street in Hollywood.
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In 1989, Carol Ohmart agreed to be the subject of an extensive profile in the Los Angeles Times.
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Carol Ohmart died in Fort Collins, Colorado, on January 1,2002, aged 74, of natural causes.
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Carol Ohmart's ashes were scattered over Carter Lake in Loveland, Colorado.
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Carol Ohmart has been regarded as a talented actress, being referred to as "a female Brando" in reference to Marlon Brando by writer James Bacon of the Associated Press.
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Carol Ohmart has an amazing physical resemblance, in some angles, to Barbara Stanwyck.