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The daughter of husband-and-wife vaudevillians, Randy Stuart was born in southeastern Iola, Kansas and traveled throughout the South and Midwest with her itinerant parents before making her own stage debut with them at the ripe old age of three. The family eventually settled in California where Randy attended college, acted in school plays and caught the eye of Hollywood talent scouts; she enacted a scene from the play "The Women" in a screen test which impressed 20th Century-Fox executives enough to put her under contract. She made her film debut with an uncredited part in The Foxes of Harrow (1947) starring Maureen O'Hara (I) and Rex Harrison.

In 1950, the blonde, smoky-voiced actress made a brief impression as the calculating telephone roommate of Eve Harrington (played by Anne Baxter (I) in the classic backstage film All About Eve (1950). She then moved up front and center as the distaff part of a husband-and-wife spy team in "Biff Baker, U.S.A." (1952) which also starred Alan Hale Jr. (I). Randy later was given her best-remembered role in the cult sci-fi The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). as Louise Carey, the concerned wife of tiny Scott Carey, played by Grant Williams (I).

The next year she was cast as Nancy Dawson in the western film Man from God's Country (1958) opposite George Montgomery which was followed by a guest-star appearance in Montgomery's short-lived television western series "Cimarron City" (1958). She also had a one-season (1959-60) regular role on the western series "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" (1955).

After this she would remain focused on 1960s' TV, wherein she sporadically appeared in a number of popular series, mostly crime dramas and westerns, such as "Bonanza," "Maverick," "Peter Gunn," "Cheyenne" and "77 Sunset Strip." Retiring by the mid 1960s, she was spotted only a couple of times after that. In the series "Dragnet" she appeared a couple of times as co-star Harry Morgan (I)' and she made a single appearance in a mid 70s "Marcus Welby" episode.

She died in 1996 at age 71.

Dean Hargrove is an American television producer who was born on July 27, 1938 in Iola, Kansas. After graduating from high school, he offered the job to become a comedy writer. He offered the job as an Emmy nominated writer in 1962 when he was writing The Bob Newhart Show (1961).

After Newhart's cancellation, he quickly wrote for My Three Sons (1960) in 1963, before offering him the job as a staff writer in 1964 for the spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Besides "U.N.C.L.E.", he contributed some work, like Jericho (1966) and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966), both of them were from MGM Television and Norman Felton's Arena Productions.

After "U.N.C.L.E."'s cancellation, he moved for Universal Studios. He went on to stay there until 1977. For Universal, he wrote scripts for The Name of the Game (1968), Columbo (1971) and McCoy (1975) and he produced various TV shows like Madigan (1972) and The Family Holvak (1975), thus making Hargrove the biggest paid writer in history for the studio.

Around the same time, in 1972, he launched an independent film production company, Strathmore Productions. He wrote and directed The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975). Five years later, he quit Universal and worked with Viacom with Roland Kibbee who was a partner to start out Kibee/Hargrove Productions. The duo produced Dear Detective (1979) and Snavely (1978).

In 1980, Kibee and Hargove part ways and Hargrove shut down two production companies. He then joined Henry Winkler's production company Fair Dinkum Productions, where he served as president. He oversaw the production of Gabe and Walker (1981) and Ryan's Four (1983), both of them were made for Paramount and ABC.

Two years later, he left Fair Dinkum, and reactivated Strathmore Productions as a TV production company. Hargrove signed a deal with Warner Bros. Television. During his time at Warner, he wrote one script for an unsold pilot, which was reworked into an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983) and served as producer on the show Goldie and the Bears (1985).

In 1984, his Strathmore company left the Warners, and moved to Viacom Productions, of which Hargrove worked on from 1977-1980. He served as writer/producer on Me and Mom (1985), the telemovies based on "Perry Mason", Matlock (1986), Jake and the Fatman (1987), Father Dowling Mysteries (1989) and Diagnosis Murder (1993), though most of them were partnered with fellow producer Fred Silverman and Joel Steiger. He went on to be stayed until 1997, when he moved to Columbia TriStar Television.

His career at Sony/Columbia included Tequila & Bonetti (2000), As If (2001), Sea of Souls (2004) and Demons (2009). He signed a deal with Hallmark Entertainment in 2002 and worked there on the "Murder 101", "Jane Doe" and "McBride" telemovies, before becoming an independent producer.

Lovely, buxom and shapely brunette Vicki Lynn Lasseter was born on February 19, 1960 in Iola, Kansas. Vicki primarily grew up in Texas, where she not only attended college, but also was a participant in wet T-shirt contests and similar events. Lasseter was the Playmate of the Month in the February, 1981 issue of "Playboy." In the wake of her Playmate stint Vicki did traveling on behalf of both "Playboy" and Anheuser-Busch. Vicki Lasseter lives in Texas with her husband and daughter.

Born in Iola, Kansas, Porter served 13 years as an active duty US Marine with two combat tours in Iraq and has also served in the California and North Carolina Air National Guard as well as the Maryland National Guard, leaving the Navy as the only military branch he has not been a member of. He has a BA in Film from the University of New Mexico and MFA in Producing for Film and Television from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. Porter freelances as an independent producer/director in addition to full time positions as a video producer with various government and private agencies.

Jeremy Spencer was born on 12 September 1977 in Iola, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for My Step-Dad's a Freakin' Vampire (2009) and In the Red (2006).

Gale Ronn was born on 5 December 1907 in Iola, Kansas, USA. She was an actress. She died on 5 October 2000 in California, USA.

David Krieg was born on 20 October 1958 in Iola, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for Home Improvement (1991), The NFL on NBC (1965) and NFL Monday Night Football (1970).