The daughter of husband-and-wife vaudevillians, Randy Stuart was born in southeastern Iola, Kansas and traveled throughout the South and Midwest with her itinerant parents before making her own stage debut with them at the ripe old age of three. The family eventually settled in California where Randy attended college, acted in school plays and caught the eye of Hollywood talent scouts; she enacted a scene from the play "The Women" in a screen test which impressed 20th Century-Fox executives enough to put her under contract. She made her film debut with an uncredited part in _The Foxes of Harrow and she made a single appearance in a mid 70s "Marcus Welby" episode. She died in 1996 at age 71.
Joined up with her vaudeville parents, who called their act "The Shaubells," at age 3.
According to Laura Wagner, in her article about Randy in Films of the Golden Age, Winter 2013/2014 issue, she was born Elizabeth Shaubell but began going by the nickname of "Randy" while a teenager.
Auditioned for a prime role in the film Lady in the Dark but didnt get it. Her test, however, was eventually seen by Fox, who signed her to a contract a couple years later.
Her three marriages were to non-professionals. Her first husband, Kenneth Smith, was an airplane marriage; her second husband, Edward Charles George, by whom she had a daughter, was a car salesman who later became a police officer. Third husband Lane Allans occupation was an actor.
They [parents] did everything there was to do in show business, and the,days were pitifully unprofitable then. My first recollections were of,leaning against an upright piano played by my mother in the old-time,silent movie theaters. Once we had a tent show, and the tent was washed,away in a flood. My own debut at three was a failure, and embarrassed,my mother. .
