Carolyn Kearney(1930-2005)
- Actress
Born in Detroit and raised in New Orleans, Carolyn Kearney began
studying at the Pasadena Playhouse in the mid-1950s, and was soon
acting in stage productions, opposite veterans
Stuart Erwin,
Edward Everett Horton,
Gladys Cooper,
Leo G. Carroll and
Cecil Kellaway. In addition to many TV
appearances, her films included the horror thriller,
Le décapité vivant (1958)
and Raid contre la pègre (1957), the latter
shot in her old stamping grounds of New Orleans, with Kearney as a drug
addict. After two and a half years of addiction to Xanax, due to a
physician's error, she kicked the habit in 1987, later writing one of
the essays for the book "Prescription Drug Addiction" and helping to
found "Benzodiazepine Anonymous", a 12-step program for recovering
addicts. Her first husband was screenwriter
Harold Jack Bloom; her second,
advertising executive-writer Alan Hirshfeld.
