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Meri Welles

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Meri Welles
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Welles in Alfred Hitchcock Presents
BornMary Janet Carsey
(1937-02-27)February 27, 1937
Dallas, Texas, USA
💀DiedAugust 27, 1973(1973-08-27) (aged 36)
Dallas, Texas, USAAugust 27, 1973(1973-08-27) (aged 36)
💼 Occupation
  • Actress
  • singer
📆 Years active  1959–1973
👩 Spouse(s)
Gene Arthur Cates
(m. 1955; div. 1959)

Mel Welles
(m. 1959; div. 1962)

Ray Malone
(m. 1962; died 1970)

Michael M. Moses
(m. 1970; div. 1971)
👶 ChildrenMichael Timothy Cates
Kevin Welles
👪 Relatives

Meri Welles (born Mary Janet Carsey; February 27, 1937 – August 27, 1973) was an American an actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1960s to the early-1970s.

She starred in many Hollywood films, including six iconic roles The Little Shop of Horrors (1960, with Mel Welles), The Devil Is a Woman (1962, with Penny Wise) and The Pink Panther (1963). She successfully traded on her glamorous persona and exotic looks, and became one of the era's highest-paid actresses.

Life and career[edit]

Mary Janet Carsey was born on February 27, 1937 to Charles Brown Carsey (1904–1990) and Ethel Rowena Pierce (1914–2002) in Dallas, Texas. She had two brothers Eric (born December 7, 1939) and James (born January 27, 1941) and two sisters Sally (born December 21, 1943) and Lucille (born October 10, 1948) her siblings are famous actors.

In 1955, She married Gene Arthur Cates, had son Michael Timothy Cates (born October 14, 1956) and annulment in May 25, 1959.

In 1958, Welles diagnosed with Autism at the age of 21.

On May 29, 1959, She married Mel Welles, adopted her son Kevin Welles (born December 6, 1958 in Brussels, Belgium) and divorced on September 2, 1962).

On September 7, 1962, Ray Malone until his death in April 18, 1970.

On August 29, 1970, She married Michael M. Moses and divorced in January 31, 1971.

She died on August 27, 1973 of heart attack and drowning in Dallas, Texas while filming her final film Penny and Randall (1973), a Christmas-musical film that filmed in McAllen, Texas before released on December 21, 1973 as a released posthumously film.

Filmography[edit]

Films[edit]

Year Title Role Film Company Notes
1960 The Little Shop of Horrors Leonora Clyde The Filmgroup as Merri Welles; film debut
1961 The Ladies Man Working Girl Paramount Pictures
1962 Two Weeks in Another Town Lew Jordan's wife Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) uncredited
Lo sceicco rosso Izmir Explorer Film '58 as Mary Welles
1963 Cleopatra Cleopatra's Handmaiden Twentieth Century Fox uncredited
Il successo Tatiana Cinétel as Mery Welles
The Pink Panther Monica Fawn Mirisch G-E Productions as Meri Wells
1964 A House Is Not a Home Lorraine Embassy Pictures
My Kitty Bombay Penny Cillin Paramount Pictures
1966 Mike Henry in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold Ethel Allfin A.G. uncredited
1970 Cauliflower Cupids Nookie North Starlite Films as Meri Carsey Welles
1973 Penny and Randall Viola Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) final film role

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