Carol Hughes (born Catherine Mabel Hukill, January , â€" August , )
was an American actress. She is best known for her leading roles
opposite Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and for her role as Dale Arden in
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe ().Hughes was born in Chicago,
Illinois, to Charles, an upholsterer, and Mable Hukill (née Stift).
Both of her parents were born in Chicago; her mother's grandparents
were from Germany. She was raised in a rented house at Pearl Court in
Chicago along with a cousin, Pearl Hukill. As a teenager, she was
drawn to acting and participated in school plays.At the age of , she
began acting and dancing in short musical comedies with an Oshkosh
stock company. The following year, she appeared as Katie Conway in the
Conway Sisters team, having learned to sing and play piano. In the
late s, she teamed with Frank Faylen to form the comedy dancing and
singing team of Faylen and Hughes in which she played the "dumb girl"
Kitty Hughes. In , the -year-old Hughes married Frank Faylen. By the
early s, they were performing together in stock and vaudeville shows
throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.
was an American actress. She is best known for her leading roles
opposite Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, and for her role as Dale Arden in
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe ().Hughes was born in Chicago,
Illinois, to Charles, an upholsterer, and Mable Hukill (née Stift).
Both of her parents were born in Chicago; her mother's grandparents
were from Germany. She was raised in a rented house at Pearl Court in
Chicago along with a cousin, Pearl Hukill. As a teenager, she was
drawn to acting and participated in school plays.At the age of , she
began acting and dancing in short musical comedies with an Oshkosh
stock company. The following year, she appeared as Katie Conway in the
Conway Sisters team, having learned to sing and play piano. In the
late s, she teamed with Frank Faylen to form the comedy dancing and
singing team of Faylen and Hughes in which she played the "dumb girl"
Kitty Hughes. In , the -year-old Hughes married Frank Faylen. By the
early s, they were performing together in stock and vaudeville shows
throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.
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