Jean Carson

Jean Carson, born in Charleston, West Virginia, worked in theater, film and television. She started in productions with the Kanawha Players and made her Broadway debut with George S. Kaufman's Bravo in 1948, which earned her a Theater World Award. She appeared on Broadway in The Bird Cage and Anniversary Waltz. On television she worked in series such as Studio One, NBC Presents and The Ford Theatre Hour, and she played Paula in a Twilight Zone episode that Rod Serling wrote for her. She guest starred on Wagon Train, Peter Gunn and Sugarfoot and had a regular role on The Betty Hutton Show. She was best known for The Andy Griffith Show, as Naomi in 1962 and as Daphne, one of the fun girls, from 1962 to 1965. Her movies included The Phenix City Story (1955), I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) and The Party (1968), and Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) was her last film.