Carol Hughes (actress)
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Carol Hughes, 1940
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| Born |
Catherine Mabel Hukill January 17, 1910 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Died | August 8, 1995 (aged 85) Burbank, California, USA |
| Other names | Catherine Hughes |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1935–53 |
| Spouse(s) | Frank Faylen (m. 1928–85) |
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Carol Hughes (January 17, 1910 – August 8, 1995) was an American actress. She is best known for her leading roles opposite Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and for her role as Dale Arden in Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940).
Hughes was born Catherine Mabel Hukill on January 17, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois to Charles, an upholsterer, and Mable Hukill (née Stift). Both of her parents were born in Chicago; her mother's grandparents were from Germany. She was raised in a rented house at 2122 Pearl Court in Chicago along with a cousin, Pearl Hukill. As a teenager, she was drawn to acting and participated in school plays.
At the age of fourteen, she began acting and dancing in short musical comedies with an Oshkosh stock company. The following year she appeared as Katie Conway in the Conway Sisters team, having learned to sing and play piano. In the late 1920s, she teamed up with Frank Faylen to form the comedy dancing and singing team of "Faylen and Hughes" in which she played the "dumb girl" Kitty Hughes. In 1928, the eighteen-year-old Hughes married Frank Faylen. By the early 1930s, they were performing together in stock and vaudeville shows throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.
In 1935, Hughes and Faylen moved to Hollywood to attempt movie careers. Hughes began her film career playing bit parts in George White's 1935 Scandals (1935) and Ceiling Zero (1936). After being signed on as a contract player by Warner Bros. in 1936, her first name was changed to Carol and she began to appear in credited speaking roles, mostly in B movies. By 1937, she was appearing in leading roles in films such as Meet the Boy Friend, Marry the Girl, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted, and The Westland Case.
In 1938, Hughes transitioned to Western films appearing opposite Gene Autry in Gold Mine in the Sky (1938), Man from Music Mountain (1938), and Under Fiesta Stars (1941), and opposite Roy Rogers in Under Western Stars (1938). In 1940 she landed one of her best known roles as Dale Arden in Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940).
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