Randy Stuart
| Randy Stuart | |
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Stuart with Alan Hale, Jr. in Biff Baker, U.S.A., 1952.
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Elizabeth Shaubell October 24, 1924 Iola, Allen County Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | July 20, 1996 (aged 71) Bakersfield Kern County, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1947 to 1975 |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth W. Smith (?-1945) Edward Charles George (1947-1954) (divorced) 1 child Lane Allan (1953-1968) (divorced) 3 children Ernest Wallis (1971?-1982) (his death) |
| Children | Gina Lee Wootten Scott R. Wootten Laurie A. Wootten |
Randy Stuart, born as Elizabeth Shaubell (October 24, 1924 – July 20, 1996), was an American actress in film and television. A familiar face in several popular films of the 1940s and 1950s, and later in Western-themed television series, she is perhaps best remembered as Louise Carey, the wife of Scott Carey, played by Grant Williams, in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), a science-fiction film.
Stuart's parents, John and Gladys Shaubell, were itinerant musicians in the American South and the Middle West. She was born in Iola in Allen County in southeastern Kansas, and made her stage debut at the age of three.
The Shaubells relocated to Compton, California, where Stuart went to high school and Compton Junior College.
Stuart was a regular on the Jack Carson Show in 1946.
A screen test in the play The Women led to Stuart being placed under contract at 20th Century Fox. Her film debut was uncredited in the 1947 picture, The Foxes of Harrow.
In 1948, she played Peggy, a knowing secretary (and collaborator with star Clifton Webb) in the comedy Sitting Pretty. She also appeared that year (sixth-billed) in Apartment for Peggy with William Holden and Jeanne Crain.
In 1949, she portrayed Lieutenant Eloise Billings, an object of desire for Cary Grant, in the Howard Hawks film I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Ann Sheridan. That same year, she appeared opposite Jose Ferrer in Otto Preminger's psychological noir, Whirlpool. Stuart was billed on posters as a supporting player in the comedy / musical Dancing in the Dark, starring William Powell and Betsy Drake.
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