Carole Mathews
| Carole Mathews | |
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| Born |
Jean Deifel September 13, 1920 Montgomery, Illinois, United States |
| Died | November 6, 2014 (aged 94) Murrieta, California, United States |
| Cause of death | Congestive heart failure |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | c. 1940 - 1978 |
| Spouse(s) | John Arthur Stockton (1942-1944, annulled) |
Carole Mathews (September 13, 1920 – November 6, 2014) was an American actress of film and television. Her longest-running role was as the 37-year-old widow Wilma Fansler in the second season from 1958 to 1959 on the NBC Western television series, The Californians.
Born Jean Deifel in Montgomery, Illinois, United States, near Chicago, Mathews went to live with her grandmother after her mother divorced her father.
She attended Roman Catholic schools and after graduation from high school, entered a nunnery. She was named "Miss Chicago" in 1938 and soon left the nunnery. Instead, she joined the Earl Carroll Follies and hosted a WGN radio program, Breakfast Time with Carole Mathews. Soon she was engaging in modeling.
In 1942, she conducted a screen test for Samuel Goldwyn of MGM Studios. That same night, she married radio writer John Arthur Stockton in Tijuana, Mexico, the scion of a wealthy Chicago family. Goldwyn immediately canceled her contract. In late January 1944, she had the marriage annulled, and she never remarried, though she was associated with several other men, including a considerably younger Don Durant, two years before he was cast in his own CBS Western series, Johnny Ringo, according to a report from Walter Winchell.
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