Carole Gallagher

{{Short description|American actress (1923–1966)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Carole Gallagher

| image = Carole Gallagher.jpg

| caption = Gallagher in 1944

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|02|24|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|08|29|1923|02|24|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1942–1949

| spouse = {{marriage|Dick Foran|1943|1945|end=divorced}}

| children = 1

}}

Carole Gallagher (February 24, 1923 – August 29, 1966) was an American film actress and the second wife of actor Dick Foran. She is best known for her roles in The Falcon Out West (1944) and The Denver Kid (1948).{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/27790-Carole-Gallagher|publisher=American Film Institute|title=CAROLE GALLAGHER|accessdate=November 7, 2018}}

Personal life and death

Gallagher married actor Dick Foran in 1943.{{cite news |title='Actor Dick Foran Married in East' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/25849866/1943dick_foran_marries_carole_gallagher/ |access-date=31 August 2022 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |date=14 January 1943 |location=San Francisco, California |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}} They had a son together, Sean Nicolas Foran.{{cite news |title='Actor Foran Told to Pay $250 Monthly' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/25850411/1944dick_foran_divorce_article/ |access-date=31 August 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=21 November 1944 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}} She would later file for divorce in 1944, in which Gallagher described her marriage to Foran as abusive, a judge later order him to pay her $250 monthly for support for their son.{{cite news |title='Divorce Won by Wife of Dick Foran' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/25850169/1945dick_foran_divorce/ |access-date=31 August 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=19 May 1945 |location=Los Angeles, California |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}} The divorce completed in 1945. She died in 1966 at the age of 43 in Los Angeles, California and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Selected filmography

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See also

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