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wife of

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, in ten episodes in the 1957–58 season of the

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. Her mother was actress Allene Crater; her sisters, Dorothy Stone and Paula Stone. The author

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is her uncle. Her middle name came from her father's longtime comedy partner David C. Montgomery. In 1940, she married Robert W. McCahon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCahon of Brookline,

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. They divorced in 1950 and had no children. Stone's TV debut came on January 2, 1951, when she appeared in ''Burlesque'' on CBS.

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Carol Montgomery Stone's obituary
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