Carol Wayne (Actress)

Carol was a beautiful comedienne who appeared as the "Matinee Lady" on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She regularly appeared during one of Carson's recurring sketches known as "The Tea Time Movie." Carson played the lecherous character "Art Fern" who would make references to Carol's ample bosom. She played opposite Carson in over 100 sketches. After her death (which tragically occurred exactly one year after her last appearance on The Tonight Show), Carson kept the Art Fern character off the air for most of the next year. He eventually hired Danuta Wesley and later Teresa Ganzel to be his new Matinée Lady. She also played on one of the most popular episodes of I Spy (1965) opposite Robert Culp. While Carol seemed to make no attempt to downplay her role as a dim-witted sex symbol, in reality she did make many attempts to hone her acting skills by working in the multitude of situation and sketch comedies that were popular throughout the 1970s. Any performer will tell you that comedy is not easy, but Carol and sister Nina Wayne managed quite well working opposite some of the most respected talent in the entertainment business. Both Nina and Carol appeared in different episodes of Bewitched (1964) in the 1960s. Appeared in a February 1984 Playboy pictoral.