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Carol Lynley (born Carole Ann Jones on February 13, 1942 in New York City) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model under the name "Carolyn Lee", and when she started acting (after appearing on the cover of Life magazine at 15), she discovered that another actress had already registered the name, so she modified it.

Early on, Lynley distinguished herself in both the Broadway stage and Hollywood screen versions of the controversial drama Blue Denim (1959), in which she and co-star Brandon De Wilde had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. In 1959, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female".

She is also known for her roles in Hound-Dog Man, Return to Peyton Place, Under The Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, Harlow, the original version of The Poseidon Adventure, and the pilot television movie for Fantasy Island.

Married to Michael Selsman between 1960 and 1964, Lynley has a daughter, Jill, (born 1962), and was involved for 18 years in an on-again-off-again relationship with talk show host David Frost.

She posed nude for Playboy magazine in March 1965.

Among her many roles, Carol Lynley holds a special place as Gail Foster, the Las Vegas girlfriend of Carl Kolchak in the original Night Stalker TV movie.

Lynley currently resides in Malibu.

• The Light in the Forest (1958)
• Holiday for Lovers (1959)
• Blue Denim (1959)
• Hound-Dog Man (1959)
• Return to Peyton Place (1961)
• The Last Sunset (1961)
• The Stripper (1963)
• Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
• The Cardinal (1963)
• Shock Treatment (1964)
• The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
• Harlow (1965)
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
• The Shuttered Room (1967)
• Danger Route (1967)
• The Maltese Bippy (1969)
• Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969)
• Norwood (1970)
• Beware! The Blob (1972)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• Cotter (1973)
• The Four Deuces (1976)
• The Washington Affair (1977)
• Bad Georgia Road (1977)
• H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
• The Cat and the Canary (1979)
• Me olvidé de vivir (1980)
• Vigilante (1983)
• Balboa (1986)
• Dark Tower (1987)
• Blackout (1988)
• Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) (documentary)
• Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
• Spirits (1991)
• Neon Signs (1996)
• Flypaper (1997)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary)
• Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
• A Light in the Forest (2002)
• Vic (2006) (short subject)

• Carol Lynley at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile at the Swingin' Chicks of the 60's site
• Fan Page includes small reviews of her films
• Scream Queen Profile at The Terror Trap website
• Pictures of her from her appearance in 'The Big Valley' TV episode: 'Hell Hath No Fury' 11-18, 1968 at Wanted Cowgirls

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