Carol Lynley

Carol Lynley
Carolyn Lee Jones B. February 13, 1942, New York, New York JR's off-the-cuff take (because you can read the same boring old biographical information anywhere): Where do I start? I fell head over heels for Carol when she was plugging TPA, pre-release, on Mike Douglas's old afternoon talk show, and was even more hooked when I saw her on the big screen. Cut to the chase: I finally met her in 1998, and spent many fun-filled Sunday afternoons at her place in Malibu, often resulting in much side pain because she made me laugh so hard. A self-described Bohemian, Carol is vivacious, indescribably charismatic, talkative, down to earth (she's one of the few Famous People who's actually genuinely interested in people other than herself), very, very smart, and wickedly funny. It's rare to hear her utter a profane word, and even rarer to hear her say anything negative about anyone (except maybe Eddie Fisher, and who can blame her for that?). She did not hate Red Buttons (they were actually quite fond of one another). Half the men she was linked to romantically in the tabloids were just close gay guy friends (e.g., Jack Haley, Jr.; Paul Zastupnevich). She can sing and she does swim. I could write about Carol endlessly, but I won't here; you'll have to get the rest of the story at CarolLynley.com when it comes back up in time for Carol's birthday in 2012. *Best Poseidon* moment:** Her big scene on the airshaft ladder is a given -- but I've always liked her wide-eyed, near-maniacal look of determination when Martin reminds her not to let go of him as they're about to go underwater: "No -- I won't!" Filmography and TVography: Blu-Ray DVD Mr. Peepers (TV series, 1953) Blu-Ray DVD G.E. True Theater (TV series, 1956) Blu-Ray DVD Goodyear Playhouse (TV series, 1956) Blu-Ray DVD The Alcoa Hour (TV series, 1956) Blu-Ray DVD The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV series, 1956) Blu-Ray DVD Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series, 1957) Blu-Ray DVD DuPont Show of the Month (TV series, 1957) Blu-Ray DVD The Mickey Mouse Club (TV series, 1958) Blu-Ray VHS The Light in the Forest (1958) Blu-Ray DVD Pursuit (TV series, 1958) Blu-Ray VHS Shirley Temple Theatre (TV series, 1958) Blu-Ray DVD G.E. True Theater (TV series, 1958) Blu-Ray DVD Stump the Stars (TV series, 1958) Blu-Ray DVD Holiday for Lovers (1959) Blu-Ray DVD Blue Denim (1959) Blu-Ray DVD Arthur Murray's Dance Party (TV series, 1959) Blu-Ray DVD G.E. True Theater (TV series, 1959) Blu-Ray DVD Hound-Dog Man (1959) Blu-Ray DVD Return to Peyton Place (1961) Blu-Ray DVD The Last Sunset (1961) Blu-Ray DVD Here's Hollywood (TV series, 1961) Blu-Ray DVD Henry Fonda and the Family (TV, 1962) Blu-Ray DVD The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series, 1962) Blu-Ray DVD Alcoa Premiere (TV series, 1962) Blu-Ray DVD The Virginian (TV series, 1962) Blu-Ray DVD Academy Awards (TV, 1963) Blu-Ray DVD The Dick Powell Theatre (TV series, 1963) Blu-Ray VHS The Stripper (1963) Blu-Ray DVD Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) Blu-Ray DVD The Cardinal (1963) Blu-Ray DVD Hollywood and the Stars (TV, 1964) Blu-Ray DVD Shock Treatment (1964) Blu-Ray DVD The Pleasure Seekers (1964) Blu-Ray DVD Harlow (1965) Blu-Ray DVD Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) Blu-Ray DVD Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series, 1965) Blu-Ray DVD Run for Your Life (TV series, 1966) Blu-Ray DVD Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series, 1966) Blu-Ray DVD ABC Stage (TV, 1967) DVD VHS The Shuttered Room, a.k.a. Blood Island (1967) Blu-Ray VHS The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV series, 1967) Blu-Ray DVD Danger Route (1967) Blu-Ray DVD The Invaders (TV series, 1967) Blu-Ray DVD The F.B.I. (TV series, 1967) Blu-Ray DVD Journey to the Unknown (TV series, 1968) Blu-Ray DVD The Big Valley (TV series, 1968) Blu-Ray DVD Shadow on the Land (Made for TV, 1968) Blu-Ray DVD The Smugglers (Made for TV, 1968) Blu-Ray DVD It Takes a Thief (TV series, 1969) Blu-Ray DVD The Maltese Bippy (1969) Blu-Ray DVD Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969) Blu-Ray DVD The Immortal (TV series, 1969) Blu-Ray DVD The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV series, 1970) Blu-Ray DVD The Most Deadly Game (TV series, 1970) Blu-Ray DVD Norwood (1970) Blu-Ray DVD Weekend of Terror (Made for TV, 1970) Blu-Ray DVD Mannix (TV series, 1971) Blu-Ray DVD The Immortal (TV series, 1971) Blu-Ray DVD Crosscurrent (Made for TV, 1971) Blu-Ray DVD The Night Stalker (Made for TV, 1972) Blu-Ray DVD Night Gallery (TV series, 1972) Blu-Ray DVD The Sixth Sense (TV series, 1972) Blu-Ray DVD Beware! The Blob (1972) Blu-Ray DVD The Mike Douglas Show (TV series, 1972) Blu-Ray DVD The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Blu-Ray DVD Cotter (1973) Blu-Ray DVD Great Mysteries (TV series, 1973) Blu-Ray DVD The Magician (TV series, 1973) Blu-Ray DVD Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV series, 1973) Blu-Ray DVD The Elevator (Made for TV, 1974) Blu-Ray DVD The Evil Touch (TV series, 1974) Blu-Ray DVD Hollywood Squares (TV series, mid-1970s) Blu-Ray VHS Death Stalk (Made for TV, 1975) Blu-Ray DVD Thriller (TV series, 1975) Blu-Ray DVD The Four Deuces (1976) Blu-Ray VHS Quincy M.E. (TV series, 1976) Blu-Ray DVD Police Woman (TV series, 1976) Blu-Ray DVD Flood! (Made for TV, 1976) Blu-Ray DVD The Washington Affair (1977) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1977) Blu-Ray DVD Kojak (TV series, 1977) Blu-Ray VHS Bad Georgia Road (1977) Blu-Ray DVD Having Babies II (Made for TV, 1977) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1978) Blu-Ray DVD Hawaii Five-O (TV series, 1978) Blu-Ray DVD Cops and Robin (Made for TV, 1978) Blu-Ray DVD Richie Brockelman, Private Eye (TV series, 1978) Blu-Ray DVD The Beasts Are on the Streets (Made for TV, 1978) Blu-Ray DVD Sword of Justice (TV series, 1978) Blu-Ray DVD The Cat and the Canary (1978) Blu-Ray DVD Academy Awards (TV, 1979) Blu-Ray DVD Circus of the Stars (TV series, 1979) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1979) Blu-Ray DVD The Love Boat (TV series, 1979) Blu-Ray DVD The Shape of Things to Come (1979) Blu-Ray DVD Willow B: Women in Prison (Made for TV, 1980) Blu-Ray DVD The Littlest Hobo (TV series, 1980) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1980) Blu-Ray DVD Charlie's Angels (TV series, 1980) Blu-Ray DVD Omnibus (TV series, 1980) Blu-Ray DVD Best of Friends (Made for TV, 1981) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1981) Blu-Ray DVD Hart to Hart (TV series, 1981) Blu-Ray DVD Judgment Day (TV, 1981) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1982) Blu-Ray DVD Baker's Dozen (TV series, 1982) Blu-ray DVD Vigilante (1983) Blu-Ray DVD The Fall Guy (TV series, 1983) Blu-Ray DVD Hotel (TV series, 1983) Blu-Ray DVD Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected (TV series, 1984) Blu-Ray DVD Fantasy Island (TV series, 1984) Blu-Ray DVD Finder of Lost Loves (TV series, 1984) Blu-Ray DVD Fox Mystery Theater (TV series, 1985) Blu-Ray DVD Balboa (1986) Blu-Ray DVD The Pet Test (TV series, 1986) Blu-Ray DVD Night Heat (TV series, 1987) Blu-Ray DVD Blackout (1988) Blu-Ray DVD Another World (TV series, 1988) Blu-Ray DVD The Joe Franklin Show (TV series, 1989) Blu-Ray VHS Dark Tower (1989) Blu-Ray DVD Monsters (TV series, 1990) Blu-Ray VHS Spirits (1990) Blu-Ray DVD Howling VI: The Freaks (Straight to video, 1991) Blu-Ray VHS Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (TV, 1991) Blu-Ray DVD Neon Signs (1996) Blu-Ray DVD Natalie Wood (TV, 1997) Blu-Ray DVD Flypaper (1999) Blu-Ray DVD Drowning on Dry Land (1999) Blu-Ray DVD A Light in the Forest (2003) Blu-Ray DVD Vic (2006)
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What's Carol Lynley Been Up to? (1973)

Robin Adams Sloan, January 16, 1973

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Lovely Lynley Lonely? No Men in Her Life

Earl Wilson, July 23, 1975

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Carol Lynley on her way up

Newsweek Feature Services, May 20, 1972. "Carol Lynley, a Dresden-doll actress whose career foundered on the shoals of Hollywood type-casting, may find herself shipwrecked into stardom. Miss Lynley, at the delightfully ripe old age of 30, had become the perennial ingenue ever since she first appeared in Walt Disney's Light In the Forest, 14 years ago. Part of the problem was therefusal of her lovely blonde face to grow old and part was the reluctance of directors to cast her as anything but a remarkably shapely girl-next-door. ..."

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Headed Topside: Actress Carol Lynley, more than a pretty face, appears at the Castro Theatre to herald The Poseidon Adventure.

Dennis Harvey, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 8, 1995 (cached). "Slim, sleek as a mink, with straight blond hair and slightly ethereal good looks, Carol Lynley was the quintessential ingenue in 20 or so U.S. and U.K. features from the late '50s to the early '70s. Like an earlier generation's cool young blond, Veronica Lake, her career met the fate unfortunately common among innocents: when she started looking too much the real grown-up, the roles stopped coming. ... Probably more people have seen her in The Poseidon Adventure than in any other film, though ironically that prototype 'disaster movie' would be her last A-budget vehicle. This Friday, Outsider Productions (the folks who brought back The Stepford Wives a couple months back) is presenting Poseidon as a 'high camp on the high seas' Castro Theatre event... This is an occasion for kitschy laughs, and Lynley -- interviewed by phone from her Santa Monica studio -- retains a good sense of humor about this and other past big-screen efforts. ... Now in her early 50s, Lynley doesn't spend much time brooding over her few career 'horror stories' (passing up a role in Five Easy Pieces was one)..."