Carol Morris

Carol Morris

Acting
1936-04-08
Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Biography

Carol Ann Laverne Morris (born April 8, 1936) is an American actress, model and beauty queen who was the second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956. She was crowned by Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, of Sweden.

Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

#1What's My Line?

Drama Series - 1950, 16 episodes as Self

7.0 / 10
FamilyComedy

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

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#2Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes as Myra Kendricks (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

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#3Miss Universe

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Miss United States 1956

6.0 / 10
Reality

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by the United States-based Miss Universe Organization. The contest is the largest pageant in the world in terms of live TV coverage, airing yearly in more than 190 countries worldwide to an audience of over 2.5 billion people. Along with Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth, Miss Universe is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants. The Miss Universe Organization and its brand, along with Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, are currently owned by the WME/IMG talent agency.

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#4Miss Universe

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Miss Universe 1956

6.0 / 10
Reality

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by the United States-based Miss Universe Organization. The contest is the largest pageant in the world in terms of live TV coverage, airing yearly in more than 190 countries worldwide to an audience of over 2.5 billion people. Along with Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth, Miss Universe is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants. The Miss Universe Organization and its brand, along with Miss USA and Miss Teen USA, are currently owned by the WME/IMG talent agency.

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#5The Millionaire

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Vera Benson

5.8 / 10
Drama

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

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#6The Monolith Monsters

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Nurse 1

6.5 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.

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#7Under the Rainbow

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Hotel Rainbow Guest

5.1 / 10
Comedy

In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.

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#8Paradise Alley

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Susie Wilson

6.6 / 10
Drama

An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of Hollywood magic!

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#9Born to Be Loved

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Dorothy Atwater

5.6 / 10
ComedyRomance

Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement building in which the residents seem to live beyond the reach of muggers or drug dealers or trigger-happy gangs because they mingle and mix in the halls as they energetically interact with each other.

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#10Sizeman and Son

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Francine

8.8 / 10

Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human rights, believing that the quest for wealth is the cause of the world's difficulties.

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#11The Girl of the Limberlost

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Carrie

8.0 / 10
Drama

Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.

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