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Randy Stuart
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Randy Stuart
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1924-10-12,Iola, Kansas, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Randy Stuart, born as Elizabeth Shaubell (October 24, 1924 – July 20, 1996), was an American actress in film and television. A familiar face in several popular films of the 1940s and 1950s, and later in Western-themed television series, she is perhaps best remembered as Louise Carey, the wife of Scott Carey, played by Grant Williams, in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), a science-fiction classic named in 2009 as “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant to be preserved for all time in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. A screen test in the play The Women led to Stuart being placed under contract at 20th Century Fox. Her film debut was uncredited in the 1947 picture, The Foxes of Harrow. Stuart plays the birth mother of main character Stephen Fox, in the film's initial scene. In 1948, she played Peggy, a knowing secretary (and collaborator with star Clifton Webb) in the comedy Sitting Pretty. She also appeared that year (sixth-billed) as the wife of a returning veteran in Apartment for Peggy with William Holden and Jeanne Crain. In 1949, she portrayed Lieutenant Eloise Billings, an object of desire for Cary Grant, in the Howard Hawks film I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Ann Sheridan. That same year, she appeared opposite Jose Ferrer in Otto Preminger's psychological noir, Whirlpool. Stuart was billed on posters as a supporting player in the comedy / musical Dancing in the Dark, starring William Powell and Betsy Drake. In 1950, Stuart was briefly in that year's Best Picture, All About Eve, as a telephone friend of Anne Baxter. She had fourth billing in the noir comedy Stella, with Ann Sheridan and Victor Mature. In 1951, she appeared as Marge Boyd in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, in what might have been her breakout role. In 1952, Stuart teamed again with Grant and Drake in the comedy Room for One More for Warner Bros. After 1957's Incredible Shrinking Man, she was cast as Nancy Dawson in the 1958 western film, Man from God's Country, starring George Montgomery. She also guest-starred about that time in Montgomery's short-lived television western television series, Cimarron City. n the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stuart (known by her married name, Betty Wallis) was instrumental in developing the alumni program at Chaminade College Preparatory School in West Hills, California, from which her two youngest children had graduated. She was listed as a resource for information for the school. She later was director of alumni affairs at Cal State Northridge. Stuart was married to Kenneth Wayne Smith (1943-1945), Edward Charles George (1947-1954; one child), Lane Allan (aka Albert Wootten, 1954-1968; three children), and Ernest Dineen Wallis (1971-1982). The first three marriages ended in divorce, and the last ended with Wallis's death. Stuart died of lung cancer on July 20, 1996, at the age of 71 in Bakersfield, California.

Filmography

8.1

All About Eve
1950-11-09

I Was a Male War Bride

6.952

I Was a Male War Bride
1949-08-26

The Incredible Shrinking Man

7.485

The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957-02-22

The Street with No Name

6.402

The Street with No Name
1948-07-14

Room for One More

6.548

Room for One More
1952-01-10

Dancing in the Dark

6

Dancing in the Dark
1949-12-02

7.102

Sitting Pretty
1948-03-10

Star in the Dust

5.1

Star in the Dust
1956-06-13

9

Stella
1950-07-20

Apartment for Peggy

8.222

Apartment for Peggy
1948-09-30

0

Hazard House
1954-01-01

5.952

The Fan
1949-04-01

0

Emergency

Man from God's Country

5

Man from God's Country
1958-02-09

The Silent Kill

0

The Silent Kill
1959-08-11

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

6.045

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951-04-05

6.376

Whirlpool
1950-01-13

Giving Thanks Always

0

Giving Thanks Always
1953-11-20

5.833

Lawman
1958-10-05

Biff Baker U.S.A.

7.75

Biff Baker U.S.A.
1952-11-06

6.9

Maverick
1957-09-22

7.54

Bonanza
1959-09-12

5.6

Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07

This Is the Life

6.5

This Is the Life
1952-09-09

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

6.762

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955-09-06

Chevron Theatre

8

Chevron Theatre
1952-01-04