The daughter of husband-and-wife vaudevillians, Randy Stuart was born
in southeastern Iola, Kansas and traveled throughout the South and
Midwest with her itinerant parents before making her own stage debut
with them at the ripe old age of three. The family eventually settled
in California where Randy attended college, acted in school plays and
caught the eye of Hollywood talent scouts; she enacted a scene from the
play "The Women" in a screen test which impressed 20th Century-Fox
executives enough to put her under contract. She made her film debut
with an uncredited part in
The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
starring Maureen O'Hara (I) and
Rex Harrison.
In 1950, the blonde, smoky-voiced actress made a brief impression as
the calculating telephone roommate of Eve Harrington (played by
Anne Baxter (I) in the classic
backstage film
All About Eve (1950). She then
moved up front and center as the distaff part of a husband-and-wife spy
team in
"Biff Baker, U.S.A." (1952)
which also starred Alan Hale Jr. (I).
Randy later was given her best-remembered role in the cult sci-fi
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
as Louise Carey, the concerned wife of tiny Scott Carey, played by
Grant Williams (I).
The next year she was cast as Nancy Dawson in the western film
Man from God's Country (1958)
opposite George Montgomery which was followed by a guest-star
appearance in Montgomery's short-lived television western series "Cimarron City" (1958).
She also had a one-season (1959-60) regular role on the western series
"The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" (1955).
After this she would remain focused on 1960s' TV, wherein she
sporadically appeared in a number of popular series, mostly crime
dramas and westerns, such as "Bonanza," "Maverick," "Peter Gunn,"
"Cheyenne" and "77 Sunset Strip." Retiring by the mid 1960s, she was
spotted only a couple of times after that. In the series "Dragnet" she
appeared a couple of times as co-star
Harry Morgan (I)' and she made a
single appearance in a mid 70s "Marcus Welby" episode.
She died in 1996 at age 71.
Police Woman(1974)as Judge
Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969)as Miss Kalman
Dragnet 1967(1967)as Eileen Gannon
Hawaiian Eye(1959)as Linda Dane, Nan Alston
77 Sunset Strip(1958)as Lucy Norton
Man from God's Country(1958)
The Jack Benny Program(1950)as Self
Compression(1995)as Self
Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us(2005)as Louise Carey
'Duel': A Conversation with Director Steven Spielberg(2004)as Louise Carey in "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
The Universe According to Universal(2002)as Louise Carey
100 Years of Horror(1996)as Louise Carey
