Randy Stuart

Born: 1924-10-12

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.


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All About Eve

as Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1950-11-09

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take...

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

as Louise Carey
Released: 1957-02-22

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to...

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I Was a Male War Bride

as Lt. Eloise Billings
Released: 1949-08-26

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a...

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Sitting Pretty

as Peggy
Released: 1948-03-10

Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter....

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Whirlpool

as Miss Landau (uncredited)
Released: 1950-01-13

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an...

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The Street with No Name

as Helen Jannings (Uncredited)
Released: 1948-07-14

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested,...

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The Fan

as American Girl
Released: 1949-04-01

Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband....

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Man from God's Country

as Nancy Dawson
Released: 1958-02-09

Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt...

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Room for One More

as Mrs. Gladys Foreman
Released: 1952-01-10

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the...

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Dancing in the Dark

as Rosalie Brooks
Released: 1949-12-02

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit...

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Star in the Dust

as Nan Hogan
Released: 1956-06-13

The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle...

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Stella

as Claire
Released: 1950-07-20

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

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Apartment for Peggy

as Dorothy
Released: 1948-09-30

Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is...

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I Can Get It for You Wholesale

as Marge Boyd
Released: 1951-04-05

A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her...

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Emergency

as Doris Reeder
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An armed man breaks into a family's home during a terrible thunderstorm. Aired on Oct 15, 1953...

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The Silent Kill

as Jan Barrett
Released: 1959-08-11

Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the...

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Bonanza

as Marge Fuller
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Maverick

as Mavis Todd
First aired: 1957-09-22

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....

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Lawman

as Rose
First aired: 1958-10-05

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962...

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Biff Baker U.S.A.

as Louise Baker
First aired: 1952-11-06

Biff Baker, U.S.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from November...

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