Michele Carey

Born on February 26, 1943 in Annapolis (Maryland), Michele Henson (her real name) was the daughter of a wrestling champion, who worked as an instructor at the local military base, but was later transferred to Fort Collins. Turned into a child piano prodigy, after receiving classes from her mother (her father taught her to shoot with a rifle), she decided to study dramatic art at Fort Collins High School, to later sign up for a modeling agency, effort in which he achieved enormous notoriety. She was already famous when the millionaire Howard Hughes convinced her that she was worth being an actress, which is why she decided to move to Hollywood at the age of 21 and change her name to  Michele Carey .

After debuting in  El agente de CIPOL , and filming some other series, she became the main female lead in  El Dorado , where she became Joey, daughter of the MacDonalds, the farmers  John Wayne  should theoretically expel from their lands. . The character shoots Wayne’s, in revenge because she has ended the life of her brother.

Despite the impact of the western directed by  Howard Hawks , the actress was later relegated to minor roles, in inferior titles, such as  The Beach , a risqué drama for the year it was shot, 1968, with  Jacqueline Bisset , or the romantic drama  Sins of youth . She triumphed at the box office with  Live a Little, Love a Little , opposite  Elvis Presley , in which she played an eccentric woman who pretends to have different names and personalities, for her different moods, and still ends up dazzling a photographer. from the press played by the King of Rock, who puts up with his crazy things because… he looks like the model  Michele Carey !

After spending the 70s appearing occasionally in different series, he retired in the 80s with  Panic in the residence,  a B-series horror film with a ghost that sows terror in a center for Catholic students. Curiously, she married very late, in 1999, to millionaire Fred G. Strebel, with whom she moved into her Rancho Mirage, California residence. She remained attached to him until her death in 2011.