- Born
- Birth nameCarole Mauryne Wells
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Carole started working in television and motion pictures at the age of 12. Her first commercial was Dial Soap, then cast on the "Eddie Fisher Coke Time". She played a young "Lizzy" in her first film by the same name. She continued to co-star in most of the television shows in the late fifties, sixties and seventies. She co-starred in the TV series, National Velvet (1960) and Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966). She has appeared in over one hundred television shows, both live and taped. She co-starred in ten motion pictures. Her last was film was The Cheap Detective in 1978. Carole is a coloratura soprano, having performed opera and light opera all over the US stages and in many other countries. Carole is a pianist, loves writing music and has written several books and poetry. She taught writing classes at UCLA. Carole has always been interested in medicine and studied metaphysics and healing. Her passion is traveling and meeting people of all cultures and their techniques of healing. Carole went to Hollywood High School and is active in the Hollywood High Alumni Association, where she is the vice-president and curator of the HHS Celebrity Museum. She majored in English and Music, attended USC and UCLA and UCSB. She has been involved with many charities helping children for forty years. She was president of Las Floristas and won, twice, the Humanitatian Award from Los Angeles. She has three sons, one daughter and five grandchildren.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Carole Wells
- At sixteen, Carole Wells sang the coloratura solo in Puccini's operatic Messa di Gloria at the Hollywood Bowl and co-starred in the television series National Velvet (1960). She attended Hollywood High School and is active in the Hollywood High Alumni Association where she is the Vice President and curator of the HHS Celebrity Museum. She majored in English and Music attended USC, UCLA, and UCSB. She studied sound therapy, and introduced the voice-activated technology to the University of Southern California School of Medicine. This new technology gave mobility to thousands of paralyzed children. As president of the charity known as Las Floristas, she was able to help raise money to build the Center for Applied Rehabilitation Therapy at Rancho Los Amigos in Southern California. In 1972, she worked with Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Refer Johnson, and Jan Sarnoff, hosting the Special Olympics at UCLA.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert Sieger
- SpousesJerry Dean Vanier(October 14, 2000 - present)Walter John Karabian(June 18, 1977 - September 18, 1984) (divorced, 2 children)Edward Laurence Doheny IV(June 16, 1963 - February 14, 1973) (his death, 2 children)
- ChildrenEdward Laurence Doheny VRyan Robert DohenyBenjamin Walter KarabianKatharine Sarine Karabian
- ParentsJames Hadley WellsMauryne Batson
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Race / EthnicityWhite
- Wells' father was a doctor. She has three sisters and two brothers.
- She was discovered by actress Lurene Tuttle.
- One of her first acting jobs was in a soap commercial.
- Once said in an interview that she would like to have eight children.
- Is is not what happens to you in life, it is how you accept it and what you do about it!
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