10 Facts About Claire Carleton

Claire Carleton was an American actress whose career spanned four decades from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Claire Carleton appeared in over 100 films, the majority of them features, and on numerous television shows, including several recurring roles.

Claire Carleton began acting on the stage, eventually making it to Broadway, where she made her debut as Lucy in the short-lived play, Blue Monday in June, 1932.

Claire Carleton made her first appearance in a feature film in 1940's Millionaire Playboy, starring Joe Penner, Linda Hayes, and Russ Brown.

Claire Carleton's career ran the gamut of roles, from small, uncredited, unnamed roles, such as a nightclub patron in the 1949 musical, On the Town, to small supporting roles such as Vicki Vale in 1948's If You Knew Susie, to small featured roles such as Miss Francis in the classic drama Death of a Salesman, and leading roles such as in Girl from Havana, in which "Havana" was her character's name, and Gildersleeve on Broadway, where she played Francine Gray.

Claire Carleton had featured supporting roles in numerous films, among the most notable being: the lead of Kay Stevens in the 1941 Western mystery The Great Train Robbery; as Ruby LaRue in A Night of Adventure, starring Tom Conway; as Belle Townley in the 1946 western, Gun Town, starring Kirby Grant; in one of The Shadow films, The Missing Lady, in the role of Rose Dawson; and Grace in 1949's It's a Great Feeling, starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan.

Claire Carleton had other recurring roles on television, including that of Alice Purdy on Cimarron City, which starred George Montgomery.

Claire Carleton's final acting performance was in a small role as a store clerk during the eighth season of the television series The Virginian in 1969.

Claire Carleton died from cancer on December 11,1979, aged 66, in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, and was interred next to her husband at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.

Claire Carleton was a Democrat who supported Adlai Stevenson's campaign during the 1952 presidential election.