Biography
A busy teenaged model, Carol Lynley rose to fame by virtue of a series of popular hair-conditioner commercials. Her first important acting assignment was as a high-school-age murderess on a 1958 episode of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, directed by
Robert Altman. The blonde ingenue played a more sedate role in her first film, Disney's
The Light in the Forest. Carol Lynley continued essaying a variety of sympathetic and menacing roles into the 1990s, earning extensive press coverage for her portrayal of film-legend
Jean Harlow in a 1965 "electronivision" production, released at the same time as another Harlow biography starring
Carroll Baker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide