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Meg Randall

Meg Randall, born Genevieve Roberts (1926–2018), was an American actress, primarily active between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Her career was largely focused on supporting roles in genre films, particularly in film noir and Westerns. Among her most notable performances are her role in the film noir classic *Criss Cross* (1949), alongside Burt Lancaster, and her part in the thriller *Without Warning!* (1952). She also gained considerable popularity playing Kim Kettle in several films of the *Ma and Pa Kettle* comedy series. With the decline of the studio system, her work shifted to television, where she appeared in numerous popular series. Although she did not receive major official awards, she is remembered as a familiar face of post-war American cinema, valued for her reliability as a character actress. She retired from acting in 1961.

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