Carol Grace Matthau

Carol Matthau (Grace)
U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Birth: Sep 11 1924
Death: July 21 2003
Last residence: New York, New York 10017, USA

Actress. The wife of the actor Walter Matthau for 41 years. She met him on Broadway when they appeared in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" in the 1950s. She was also a successful writer, penning her autobiography "Among the Porcupines" and later wrote a well-received novel "The Secret in the Daisy". Her daughter from her first marriage to actor/writer William Saroyan, actress Lucy Saroyan, died in April 2003. She died from a brain aneurysm in New York. (bio by: Teresa L. Watson)

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LifeSketch: Carol Grace was born in New York City's Lower East Side; her mother, who was sixteen when she gave birth, was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. Carol never knew her biological father. She was placed in foster care until the age of eight when her mother married Charles Marcus, the wealthy head of the Bendix Corporation. Carol would take his last name as her own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Grace