Maureen Rippingale (27 May 1935 â€" 28 February 1974), known
professionally as Carole Lesley, was a British actress who had a short
but significant career as a "blonde bombshell".Lesley was born in
Chelmsford, Essex, but ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to
become a star".She starred in several films in the late 1950s and
early 1960s, including the 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown, which
won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign
Film. She also appeared in No Trees in the Street, These Dangerous
Years, Doctor in Love, Operation Bullshine and What a Whopper, and
played Helen of Troy in a television play.However, Associated decided
to end her contract, which devastated her and she disappeared from the
public eye. She subsequently lived in a semi-detached house
overlooking New Barnet station in north London, but by 1973 was
described as "a deeply depressed, once beautiful woman, still haunted
by a glamorous past".
professionally as Carole Lesley, was a British actress who had a short
but significant career as a "blonde bombshell".Lesley was born in
Chelmsford, Essex, but ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to
become a star".She starred in several films in the late 1950s and
early 1960s, including the 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown, which
won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign
Film. She also appeared in No Trees in the Street, These Dangerous
Years, Doctor in Love, Operation Bullshine and What a Whopper, and
played Helen of Troy in a television play.However, Associated decided
to end her contract, which devastated her and she disappeared from the
public eye. She subsequently lived in a semi-detached house
overlooking New Barnet station in north London, but by 1973 was
described as "a deeply depressed, once beautiful woman, still haunted
by a glamorous past".
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