biography
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 3, 1927, beautiful actress Carol Ohmart grew up in the Seattle, Washington area but returned to Utah
upon her parents' divorce. The beautiful teenager became Miss Utah 1946, and she was fourth runner-up in the 1946 Miss America contest.
Relocating to New York and beginning a modeling career in the late 1940s, Ohmart often appeared on the covers of a variety of magazines
through the mid 1950s. She also did commercials for early TV programs, first appearing on the NBC program Versatile Varieties in
1949 doing floor wax commercials alongside Anne Francis and Eva Marie Saint; the three actresses also
hosted the show, which ended in 1951. An early marriage to Ken Grayson ended in 1951.    
LEFT and CENTER A: Magazine covers featuring Carol Ohmart: 1947 National Police Gazette cover and October 1953 American Hairdresser cover. CENTER B and C: Paramount promotional photos. RIGHT: Ohmart at a premiere with second husband Wayde Preston, star of the 1957-1960 TV series Colt .45. Preston and Ohmart married in 1956 and parted company in 1958 |
the films of carol ohmartThe Scarlet Hour (1956)   
LEFT and CENTER A: As femme fatale Paulie Nevins in Paramount's The Scarlet Hour, Ohmart's first film. CENTER B: With Tom Tryon. RIGHT: With James GregoryThe Wild Party (1956) 
From the film noir release The Wild Party. LEFT: United Artists promotional photo. CENTER and RIGHT: With Arthur Franz and Anthony QuinnHouse on Haunted Hill (1958)     
From the Allied Artists horror gem House on Haunted Hill, directed by William Castle. LEFT: With Vincent Price as Ohmart's husband. CENTER A, B, and C: As Annabelle Loren (thanks to Michael Barnum). LEFT: Ohmart meets her endBorn Reckless (1958)
With Jeff Richards in the Warner Bros. drama Born RecklessThe Scavengers (1959)
As Marion Allison in the low-budget crime drama The ScavengersOne Man's Way (1964)
From the United Artists biopic One Man's Way with Don Murray as Norman Vincent PealeSpider Baby (1964)
With cult favorite Sid Haig in Jack Hill's brilliant horror flick Spider Baby. Shot in early 1964 for $65,000, this film sat on the shelf until its January 1968 releaseBranded (1965-1966 NBC TV series)
Ohmart guest-starred on an April 1966 episode of the NBC western series Branded titled Headed for Doomsday. Also pictured is Burgess MeredithThe Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974)
Ohmart portrays Lisa Grimaldi in the Cinerama horror flick The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, Ohmart's last filmlater yearsCarol Ohmart is remembered best for her role as Annabelle Loren in the 1958 Allied Artists release The House on Haunted Hill, in which she portrays Vincent Price's murder-plotting wife. This film was directed by William Castle, who used to spice up his horror films with "ballyhoo" designed to bring in audiences. The gimmick used in The House on Haunted Hill was "Emerg-O," which amounted to little more than a skeleton mounted on a wire that would swoop down on audiences during climactic moments.While Ohmart's film career was never what it should have been, she logged many hours as a guest-star on popular television shows, including Perry Mason, Route 66, Get Smart, and Mannix, among others. Her few film appearances in the 1960s include Jack Hill's Spider Baby (1964; with Lon Chaney, Jr. and Sid Haig), One Man's Way (1964; with Don Murray), and the seldom-seen Caxambu (1967; with John Ireland and Keith Larsen). In the late 1960s, Ohmart abandoned her acting career, briefly picking it up again in the early 1970s on television and in her final film, The Spectre of Edgar Allen Poe (1974; with Robert Walker Jr. and Cesar Romero). Afterward, Ohmart left Hollywood and acting for good in favor of studying metaphysics. She remarried in late 1978 and relocated to Utah and, later, Washington; she and her husband eventually settled in Colorado. Sadly, Carol Ohmart passed away on January 1, 2002, at the age of 74. She was survived by her third husband, Bill. |
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