Carole Wells is a gorgeous gal with big green eyes and long silky flaxen hair. She once rightly told a magazine reporter, “When you’re a blonde, people always notice you.” Talented and charming with just the right movie star look, she should have become a superstar but contractual TV obligations, her interest in singing, and her commitment to her family seemed to get in the way of big screen stardom. Instead, Wells co-starred on television in the family drama series National Velvet with Lori Martin and the wild and woolly sitcom Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats with Ann Sheridan. The film comedy Come Blow Your Horn (1963) should have gotten her much notice as the girlfriend of swinging bachelor Frank Sinatra’s younger brother Tony Bill, but most of her scenes were excised due to the running time. Drive-in fans remember Wells for playing the blonde tease who vamps college student Doug McClure in the hot rod film, The Lively Set (1964) co-starring Pamela Tiffin and James Darren. She was off the big screen for close to ten years when she surprised her old fans by accepting a part in the cult horror film The House of Seven Corpes (1974). But in her next feature Wells faced an even more terrifying ogre Barbra Streisand when she accepted a supporting role in Funny Lady (1975).
You can read my interview with Carole Wells in my book Drive-in Dream Girls in which Carole graciously wrote the foreword.