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Cathy Downs

Cathy Downs

Birthday: 1926-03-03 | Place of Birth: Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cathy Downs (March 3, 1924 – December 8, 1976) was an American film actress. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters (1945) and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films. By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958. She worked sporadically in television during the 1960s but was unemployed for several years before her death in Los Angeles, California. Downs has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Television, at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cathy Downs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1958
Missile to the Moon

as    June Saxton

1957
The Amazing Colossal Man

as    Carol Forrest

1957
Curfew Breakers

as    Mrs. Bowman

1956
Kentucky Rifle

as    Amy Connors

1956
The She-Creature

as    Dorothy Chappel

1956
The Oklahoma Woman

as    Susan Grant

1955
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

as    Lois King

1953
The Flaming Urge

as    Charlotte Cruickshank

1953
Bandits of the West

as    Joanne Collier

1950
The Sundowners

as    Kathleen Boyce

1950
Short Grass

as    Sharon Lynch

1949
Massacre River

as    Kitty Reid

1948
The Noose Hangs High

as    Carol Blair

1948
Panhandle

as    Jean 'Dusty' Stewart

1947
For You I Die

as    Hope Novak

1946
My Darling Clementine

as    Clementine Carter

1946
The Dark Corner

as    Mari Cathcart