Charlotte Austin(I)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Named for her birthplace (Charlotte, North Carolina), Charlotte Austin
was the daughter of Gene Austin, a top crooner of the 1920s and 1930s and
the composer of many popular songs. Dramatic training and a screen test
led to a contract at 20th Century-Fox for Charlotte in the early 1950s,
when she had parts in the studio's How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), Désirée (1954) and Daddy Long Legs (1955), and
she co-starred (on loanout to Columbia) in the musical Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952).
Freelancing after the mid-'50s, she moved from musicals to monsters,
perhaps most notoriously tackling half of the title role in the
Edward D. Wood Jr.-scripted The Bride and the Beast (1958). She is now a dealer in
antiques.
