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Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade, in 1958, had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and, that same year, won a Laurel Award for Top Supporting Female Performance, as well as a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year–Actress for her turn in Marjorie Morningstar. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, Jones began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the black-and-white television sitcom The Addams Family.
Carolyn Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, to homemaker Chloe Jeanette Southern (1906–1979) and barber Julius Alfred Jones (1897–1979). After Julius abandoned the family, in 1934, Carolyn and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones, moved with their mother into her maternal grandparents' Amarillo home. Carolyn suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities, and when her condition prevented her from going to the movies, she became an avid reader of Hollywood fan magazines. She soon aspired to become an actress and, at age 18, enrolled to study at California's Pasadena Playhouse; her grandfather, Charles W. Baker, paid her tuition.
After a talent scout spotted her at the Playhouse, Jones secured a contract with Paramount Pictures and made her first appearances on film: an uncredited role in The Turning Point (1952); an uncredited bit part as a nightclub hostess in The Big Heat (1953); and a role in House of Wax (also 1953) as the woman who Vincent Price's character turns into a statue of Joan of Arc. She also played Beth in Shield for Murder (1954), earning $500 per day for that work.
Although Jones was cast in From Here to Eternity (1953) as Alma "Lorene" Burke, pneumonia forced her to withdraw, and the role went to Donna Reed whose performance won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1956, Jones appeared in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, a remake of one of his earlier films.
In 1958, Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957), directed by Delbert Mann, and she shared the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year–Actress with Sandra Dee and Diane Varsi. That year, she also appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole (1958).
Jones played opposite Frank Sinatra in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head, with Dean Martin in Career, and with Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas in Last Train from Gun Hill (all in 1959).
In How the West Was Won (1963), a Western, she played the wife of Sheriff Jeb Rawlings (George Peppard). She also appeared with Peppard and Debbie Reynolds in the final speaking/singing scenes of the film.
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Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade, in 1958, had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and, that same year, won a Laurel Award for Top Supporting Female Performance, as well as a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year–Actress for her turn in Marjorie Morningstar. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, Jones began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the black-and-white television sitcom The Addams Family.
Carolyn Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, to homemaker Chloe Jeanette Southern (1906–1979) and barber Julius Alfred Jones (1897–1979). After Julius abandoned the family, in 1934, Carolyn and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones, moved with their mother into her maternal grandparents' Amarillo home. Carolyn suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities, and when her condition prevented her from going to the movies, she became an avid reader of Hollywood fan magazines. She soon aspired to become an actress and, at age 18, enrolled to study at California's Pasadena Playhouse; her grandfather, Charles W. Baker, paid her tuition.
After a talent scout spotted her at the Playhouse, Jones secured a contract with Paramount Pictures and made her first appearances on film: an uncredited role in The Turning Point (1952); an uncredited bit part as a nightclub hostess in The Big Heat (1953); and a role in House of Wax (also 1953) as the woman who Vincent Price's character turns into a statue of Joan of Arc. She also played Beth in Shield for Murder (1954), earning $500 per day for that work.
Although Jones was cast in From Here to Eternity (1953) as Alma "Lorene" Burke, pneumonia forced her to withdraw, and the role went to Donna Reed whose performance won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1956, Jones appeared in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, a remake of one of his earlier films.
In 1958, Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957), directed by Delbert Mann, and she shared the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year–Actress with Sandra Dee and Diane Varsi. That year, she also appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole (1958).
Jones played opposite Frank Sinatra in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head, with Dean Martin in Career, and with Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas in Last Train from Gun Hill (all in 1959).
In How the West Was Won (1963), a Western, she played the wife of Sheriff Jeb Rawlings (George Peppard). She also appeared with Peppard and Debbie Reynolds in the final speaking/singing scenes of the film.
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