Born into a London family steeped in music-her mother an opera singer of Russian-Jewish heritage and her father a German-Jewish composer-Carole Shelley began her professional life on the British stage before moving to New York, where she made a Broadway debut as Gwendolyn Pigeon in the original 1965 production of The Odd Couple. She later reprised the role in the 1968 film and the first television…
