1. Carol Thurston was typecast in the role of exotic native girls.
13 Facts About Carol Thurston
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Carol Thurston made her motion picture debut in 1944, when Louella Parsons reported that Thurston had been selected over several other actresses by director Cecil B De Mille to play the role of the Indonesian girl "Three Martini" in The Story of Dr Wassell.
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Carol Thurston appeared in eight other films in the 1940s, including the roles of Rosa in the spy thriller, The Conspirators, Siu-Mei in Pearl S Buck's China Sky, Toni Rosseau in Swamp Fire, Carmelita Mendoza in Jewels of Brandenburg, Narana in Arctic Manhunt, and Watona in Apache Chief.
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Carol Thurston had parts in several other films of the 1950s, such as Saranna Koonuk in Arctic Flight and Turquoise in Flaming Feather, and as Shari in Killer Ape and Terua, the wife of the Apache Chief Cochise, in Conquest of Cochise.
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Carol Thurston had other guest roles in the 1950s on such series as Sky King, Soldiers of Fortune, The Rough Riders, 26 Men, Behind Closed Doors, Highway Patrol, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and The Man and the Challenge.
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Carol Thurston was cast twice on the Richard Boone series, Have Gun - Will Travel, and once on CBS's Rawhide as Waneea in the 1959 episode, "Incident of the Power and the Plow".
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Carol Thurston played the daughter of Newman Haynes Clanton, or Old Man Clanton, and while the real Clanton, an outlaw rancher near Tombstone in the Arizona Territory, had two daughters, neither was named "Emma" but instead Mary Elise and Ester Ann.
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Carol Thurston was cast in different roles in four earlier episodes of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp before she landed the continuing role as Emma Clanton.
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In one of those episodes, "Old Jake", Carol Thurston played Mrs Cafferty, the distraught wife of a soldier who in the episode is killed by a buffalo hunter.
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Carol Thurston never acted again after the role of Smithy's wife in the 1963 Audie Murphy western film, Showdown.
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Carol Thurston had a daughter, Amanda Lycklyn, with her first husband, David S Thayer.
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Carol Thurston played football at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.
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In July 1956, Carol Thurston embarked on her second marriage; this time, to television actor John Russo.