Celebrity Biographies
Carol Arthur
He appeared in various Mel Brooks comedies, and was shown on Broadway. Carol Arthur she passed away on Sunday at Mary Picford House, a residence for the elderly from show business in Woodland Hills, in Los Angeles. She had suffered from Alzheimer’s for eleven years. “I will miss her so much because she has been my friend my whole life,” Brooks said.
Carol Jane Arata –her real name– was born on August 4, 1935 in Hackensack (New Jersey). Her father, Peter, was a police lieutenant and her mother, Mildred, a piano teacher, although she was especially close to her grandfather, who worked in vaudeville. She studied Acting at the Feagin School of Dramatic Radio and Arts and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her showbiz debut as an understudy to Dody Goodman and Imogene Coca in the touring comedy stage “Once Upon a Matress.”
Carol Arthur established herself in 1963, with the musical “On the Town”, in London. A year later she was successful on Broadway with “High Spirits”, directed by Noël Coward . She lavished herself in the New York theater, sharing the stage with Lauren Bacall and Dick Van Dyke . During a tour in 1963 she met Dom DeLuise . “As soon as I saw him, I thought he was the guy I wanted to spend my whole life with,” she recalled. “He was funny, larger than life, but also honest and real, passionate and intense.” After marrying him in 1965, they remained together until DeLuise’s death in 2009. They had three children.
In cinema, Carol Arthur appeared in titles like The best lover in the world , or Our time . But she will be remembered above all for her four works directed by Mel Brooks , together with her husband, The Last Madness of Mel Brooks , The Crazy, Crazy Adventures of Robin Hood , Dracula, a very content and happy dead man, and especially Saddles. hot . In the latter, she gave life to a school teacher, her most remembered role.