Randy Stuart

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 Westernthemed 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 sciencefiction classic named in 2009 as culturally historically or aesthetically significant to be preserved for all time in the Library of Congresss 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 films 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 sixthbilled 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 Premingers 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 years 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 1957s Incredible Shrinking Man she was cast as Nancy Dawson in the 1958 western film Man from Gods Country starring George Montgomery She also gueststarred about that time in Montgomerys shortlived television western television series Cimarron City