(22 November 1956 - 18 July 1958) (divorced)
25 November 56
marries William Erskine Strange, a.k.a. William Preston, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco. He’s 27; she’s 29. The press gives his age as 27 and hers as 25. Strange is an electronics engineer-turned-actor from Laramie, Wyoming, who got himself a job at Douglas Aircraft’s guided missile plant in California. It’s his first marriage and her second.
26 November 56
she and Preston reveal their marriage to the press
57
Strange changes his name to Wayde Preston and becomes the star of Warner Brothers’ television western series “Colt .45”
58
Paramount’s publicist Bob Fender confesses to have “murdered” her in 1955 by exaggerated publicity
February 58
she and Preston reside at Malibu Beach
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writer Robb White insists on casting her for his upcoming House on Haunted Hill
c. Mid-June 58
columnist Harrison Carroll tells that she and Preston “consulted attorney Simon Taub about a divorce...”
June 58 columnist Mike Connolly knows: “Wayde (“Colt .45”) Preston’s divorce didn’t make page 1 because his wife, Carol Ohmart, filed it under his real name, Bill Strange. ...”
18 July 58
gets her divorce from Preston in Santa Monica Superior Court charging mental cruelty. She claims her husband resented it when she asked if he could spend more time at home. Instead of replying, he kicked in the television set, broke some dishes and broke a mirror. He will later claim they had been married for five or six years. Preston died in 1992 at age 62 in Nevada.