Carole Cook (born January , ) is an American actress of musical
theatre, film, and television.She was born Mildred Frances Cook in in
Abilene, Texas, one of four children born to Leland Preston (L.P.)
Cook, Sr., and his wife, Maudine. She became a protégé of actress
and comedian Lucille Ball in , when the television star brought Cook
to Hollywood to appear in the “Desilu Review†. It was Ball who
gave the ingenue her stage name of "Carole", for Ball's friend Carole
Lombard. Ball reportedly told Cook, "you have the same healthy
disrespect for everything in general". Cook appeared regularly on The
Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Ball was matron of honor at Cook's wedding
in to actor Tom Troupe, to whom she remains married; the couple have
no children together.[citation needed]Cook starred in the animated
Disney film Home on the Range, voicing Pearl Gesner. She appeared in
such feature films as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles,
Grandview, U.S.A., American Gigolo, Summer Lovers, and Palm Springs
Weekend. She made guest appearances on such television shows as The
Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, Darkroom, Knight Rider, Emergency!, Magnum,
P.I., McMillan and Wife, Murder, She Wrote, Dynasty, Charlie's Angels,
Cagney & Lacey, and Grey's Anatomy.
theatre, film, and television.She was born Mildred Frances Cook in in
Abilene, Texas, one of four children born to Leland Preston (L.P.)
Cook, Sr., and his wife, Maudine. She became a protégé of actress
and comedian Lucille Ball in , when the television star brought Cook
to Hollywood to appear in the “Desilu Review†. It was Ball who
gave the ingenue her stage name of "Carole", for Ball's friend Carole
Lombard. Ball reportedly told Cook, "you have the same healthy
disrespect for everything in general". Cook appeared regularly on The
Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Ball was matron of honor at Cook's wedding
in to actor Tom Troupe, to whom she remains married; the couple have
no children together.[citation needed]Cook starred in the animated
Disney film Home on the Range, voicing Pearl Gesner. She appeared in
such feature films as The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles,
Grandview, U.S.A., American Gigolo, Summer Lovers, and Palm Springs
Weekend. She made guest appearances on such television shows as The
Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, Darkroom, Knight Rider, Emergency!, Magnum,
P.I., McMillan and Wife, Murder, She Wrote, Dynasty, Charlie's Angels,
Cagney & Lacey, and Grey's Anatomy.
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