Carol Montgomery Stone (February 1, 1915 – June 10, 2011) was an actress who played " Big Nose Kate", or Kate Holliday, the common-law wife of Doc Holliday, in ten episodes in the 1957–58 season of the ABC/ Desilu western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. [1]
Stone was the daughter of actor Fred Stone. [1] Her mother was actress Allene Crater; her sisters, Dorothy Stone and Paula Stone. The author Rex Beach is her uncle. [2] Her middle name came from her father's longtime comedy partner David C. Montgomery.[ citation needed]
In 1940, she married Robert W. McCahon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McCahon of Brookline, Massachusetts. They divorced in 1950 and had no children. [3]
Stone's TV debut came on January 2, 1951, when she appeared in Burlesque on CBS. [4]