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A 1934 WAMPAS Baby Star, blonde, blue-eyed Jean Carmen is remembered today solely for playing the "Stallion Rider" in the 1937 Republic serial The Painted Stallion. For unexplained reasons, the studio billed her Julia Thayer in this and the same year's Three Mesqueteers oater Gunsmoke Ranch but she was Jean Carmen again by 1938. The daughter of a ballerina, Carmen/Thayer had entered films in the early '30s as a riding double and bit player for Hal Roach. Subsequent to her early screen career, she appeared on radio and in two successful Broadway plays: Stage Door and The Man Who Came to Dinner. She retired from show business to marry in the 1940s and is not the later Jeanne Carmen, a busty starlet of the 1950s.