Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, Texas-born Carolyn Jones supported herself as a radio disk jockey when actuación jobs were scarce. She entered films as a bit player in 1952, attaining prominence for a role in which (for the most part) she neither moved nor spoke: the waxwork Joan of Arc -- actually one of mad sculptor Vincent Price's many murder victims -- in 1953's House of Wax. In 1957, Jones was Oscar-nominated for her five-minute role as a pathetic "good time girl" in The Bachelor Party; two years later, she estola the mostrar in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head as Frank Sinatra's bongo-playing...
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