Olive Dora Sturgess | |
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Born |
Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada |
October 8, 1933
Residence | Los Angeles, California |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Former actress |
Spouse(s) | Dale Anderson |
Children | At least one daughter |
Relatives | Joan Benham (cousin) |
Olive Dora Sturgess (born October 8, 1933) is a Canadian-born former actress of American television and three films. Though most of her appearances were in westerns, her longest-running role was as the model Carol Henning in 12 of the 155 episodes of NBC's situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show, which aired between 1956 and 1959.
A native of Ocean Falls in British Columbia,Sturgess's first credited roles were in 1955 as Kathy Gresham in the episode "Take My Hand" of the anthology television series, Studio 57, as Mia Caroll in "Time Out for Ginger" of CBS's Shower of Stars, as Midge Miller in "The Iris Miller Story" of CBS's The Millionaire, and as Linda in "Sock's Teenage Problem" of Jackie Cooper's NBC sitcom, The People's Choice. In 1957, she was cast as Mary Lambert in the episode "John Wesley Hardin" about the western outlaw on NBC's Tales of Wells Fargo, starring Dale Robertson. That same year she portrayed Fran Celane in "The Case of the Sullky Girl" on CBS's Perry Mason, with Raymond Burr.