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Jean Carson (February 28, 1923 – November 2, 2005) was an American stage, film and television actress best known for her work on the classic 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show as one of the "fun girls".
Born to Alexander W. Carson and Sadie (nėe Leete; a descendant of William Leete, first governor of the Colony of Connecticut), Jean Carson first became interested in show business as a child, playing a "bad little Indian girl". At the age of twelve, she got her first acting job, five dollars for a small part in a production of Carmen that traveled through her hometown of Charleston, West Virginia.
In high school she was voted Girl Most Likely to Succeed as an Actress. Carson told her mother she was going to be on Broadway and in 1948, after studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carson made her Broadway debut in George S. Kaufman's Bravo. Other Broadway work included Anniversary Waltz with Macdonald Carey, Two Blind Mice with Melvyn Douglas, and Bird Cage, which garnered her a Tony Award nomination.
Actors: John F. Link (editor), Ron Masak (actor), Fritz Weaver (actor), Tyne Daly (actress), Susan Hayward (actress), Charles W. Fries (producer), Don Taylor (director), Lee J. Cobb (actor), Lucille Benson (actress), Richard Berg (producer), Fay Kanin (writer), Mills Watson (actor), James Stacy (actor), Noah Keen (actor), Ron Roth (producer),
Plot: A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
Keywords: attorney, contractor, court, father-daughter-relationship, female-lawyer, ironworker, murder, trial, unsold-tv-series-pilotActors: Roger Corman (director), Roger Corman (producer), Roger Corman (actor), Michael Mark (actor), Bruno VeSota (actor), Frank Wolff (actor), Jack Hill (director), Leo Gordon (writer), Frank Gerstle (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Gene Corman (actor), Anthony Eisley (actor), Aron Kincaid (actor), William Roerick (actor), Susan Cabot (actress),
Plot: Janice Starlin, the owner of a cosmetics firm, sees that her fading beauty is not only causing waves in her personal life but causing some prestige problems for her also-fading business. She becomes an easy mark for a pseudo-scientist, Eric Zinthrop, who claims to have developed a serum from the enzymes of wasps that will turn aging skin to youthful-looking skin. The second-best thing to a time machine. She, without any hesitation, agrees to be the first human to try the Zinthro injections. But, as her beauty returns, her secretary, Mary Dennison, and her advertising executive, Bill Lane, notices she is also having a personality change and it isn't for the better, albeit she was no Miss Congegeniality to begin with. Then, Zinthrop gets hit by an automobile, for plot-development purposes, and is somewhat incapacitated and not in any shape to be whipping up any new batches of Zinthrop's Wasp Enzyme Injection Serum and, without her enzyme injections, Janice turns into a wasp-like woman and meaner that a yellow-jacket hornet. Several people don't live to regret coming into contact with her, and this is not good for the business, either.
Keywords: advertising, aging, animal-in-title, anti-aging, atonal-music-score, b-movie, beehive, beekeeper, businesswoman, catActors: Roy Stewart (actor), Leo Willis (actor), Clifford Smith (director), Ethel Fleming (actress), L.D. McKee (actor), C.M. Clark (writer),
Genres: Western,