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Carole Wells (August 31, 1942 - ) was an American actress who worked in television and film.

Early years
The daughter of a doctor, Wells was born Carole Maureen Wells in Shreveport, Louisiana, the fourth of six children in her family. Her siblings were two brothers and three sisters. She graduated from Hollywood High School, where she was a sorority sister of future actress Linda Evans.

Stage
Wells began acting with a role in a play at a little theater in Burbank, California, when she was 12 years old.

Described as a light soprano, Wells took opera lessons in the 1960s and expanded her repertoire to musical theater, performing in "musical productions of The Sound of Music, Call Me Madam with Ethel Merman ... Wildcat with Martha Raye, and State Fair with Roger Smith."

Film
Wells appeared in The Cheap Detective, Lizzie, The House of Seven Corpses, Nashville, Funny Lady, Come Blow Your Horn, The Lively Set, and Thunder of Drums.

Television
Wells was selective with regard to working in television. She said: "There are certain things I don't want to do. I won't do a television series unless it's a real good one. You put too much into it for what you get out. It's hard to find a series that's good for a girl."

Wells played Edwina Brown in the NBC drama National Velvet (1950-1962) and Lucy Hanks in the CBS comedy Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966-1967). She also was seen on The Brian Keith Show, Showcase 5 -- Something Special, Wagon Train, Police Woman,

Writing
Wells developed pilots for the television programs Caesar's Comedy Bingo and Far beyond Nearby in addition to directing and writing for the How to Learn to Fly Fish reality TV series. She also wrote two books, Love Letters to My Daughter and Once Rich, Always Rich.

Personal life
Wells married Edward Lawrence Doheny IV in June 1963. Doheny was described as an "oil scion." They had two sons. Later she married Walter J. Karabian, a member of the California House of Representatives. They had a son and a daughter.

In 1977, while she and Karabian were on an "around the world honeymoon", a Japan Airlines flight on which they were traveling was hijacked by Japanese terrorists who asked for a ransom of $6 million and release of nine terrorists from jail. After being released, Wells described the hijacking as "a terrible experience." She was pregnant at the time and later suffered a miscarriage, which her husband attributed to the trauma of the hijacking.