Carol Wayne
| Carol Wayne | |
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| Born |
September 6, 1942 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1985 (aged 42) Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico |
| Cause of death | accidental drowning |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1966–1985 |
| Spouse(s) | Loreto (Larry) Cera (?-?) Barry Feinstein (m. 1969–74) (1 child) Burt Sugarman (m. 1975–80) |
| Children | Alex Feinstein (b. 1970) |
| Relatives | Nina Wayne (sister) |
Carol Wayne (September 6, 1942 – January 13, 1985) was an American television and film actress. She was best known for her many appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as the Matinee Lady.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Wayne began her show business career as a teenage figure skater in the Ice Capades along with her younger sister Nina Wayne. The Wayne Sisters later became showgirls of the Folies Bergère at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Carol followed Nina to Hollywood in the mid-1960s and the sisters began appearing in TV shows of the era.
While Wayne did television guest shots on I Spy (as the title character in the episode "Trouble With Temple"), Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie (as dim-witted starlet "Bootsie Nightingale"), Love American Style, Emergency! and The Fall Guy, she also appeared in many sketches on The Red Skelton Show. She gained her greatest fame for 100-plus appearances (1971–1984) as the buxom Matinée Lady on The Tonight Show in Johnny Carson's popular Art Fern's Tea Time Movie sketches, which were filled with sexual double entendres. After her death, Carson kept the Art Fern character off the air for most of the next year. He eventually hired Danuta Wesley and later Teresa Ganzel to be his new Matinée Lady.
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