Carol Lynley

Carol Lynley (born February 13, 1942) is an American actress and former child model.

Biography

Born Carole Ann Jones in New York City, she began her career as a child model under the name "Carolyn Lee", and when she started acting (after appearing on the cover of Life magazine at 15), she discovered that another actress had already registered the name, so she modified it. She did not go by her real name because she was concerned she would be confused with actress Carolyn Jones.

Early on, Lynley distinguished herself in both the Broadway stage and Hollywood screen versions of the controversial drama Blue Denim (1959), in which the teenage characters played by Lynley and co-star Brandon De Wilde had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. In 1959, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female". She appeared in the fourth season Man from U.N.C.L.E. two-part episode, "The Prince of Darkness Affair.

She is also known for her roles in Hound-Dog Man, Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, Harlow, the original version of The Poseidon Adventure, and the pilot television movie for Fantasy Island. She posed nude for the March 1965 edition of Playboy magazine.

Personal life

Married to Michael Selsman between 1960 and 1964, Lynley has a daughter, Jill, (born 1962), and was involved for 18 years in an on-again-off-again relationship with talk show host David Frost. In the mid 1970s, she also dated and was romantically involved with Frank Sinatra.

Lynley currently resides in Malibu, near Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

• The Light in the Forest (1958)
• Holiday for Lovers (1959)
• Blue Denim (1959)
• Hound-Dog Man (1959)
• Return to Peyton Place (1961)
• The Last Sunset (1961)
• The Stripper (1963)
• Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
• The Cardinal (1963)
• Shock Treatment (1964)
• The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
• Harlow (1965)
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
• The Shuttered Room (1967)
• Danger Route (1967)
• The Maltese Bippy (1969)
• Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969)
• Norwood (1970)
• Beware! The Blob (1972)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• Cotter (1973)
• The Four Deuces (1976)
• The Washington Affair (1977)
• Bad Georgia Road (1977)
• H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
• The Cat and the Canary (1979)
• Me olvidé de vivir (1980)
• Vigilante (1983)
• Balboa (1986)
• Dark Tower (1987)
• Blackout (1988)
• Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) (documentary)
• Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
• Spirits (1991)
• Neon Signs (1996)
• Flypaper (1997)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary)
• Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
• A Light in the Forest (2002)
• Vic (2006) (short subject)

References

External links

• Pictures of Lynley from her appearance in The Big Valley