Cathy O'Donnell
Born in Siluria, Alabama, USA — Jul 06 1923• Died Apr 11 1970
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Cathy O'Donnell (July 6, 1923 – April 11, 1970) was an American actress, best known for her many roles in film-noir movies. While under contract with Samuel Goldwyn, O'Donnell made her debut in an uncredited role as a nightclub extra in Wonder Man (1945). Her first major role in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), playing Wilma Cameron, the high-school sweetheart of double amputatee Homer Parrish, played by real-life World War II veteran/amputee Harold Russell. She was loaned out to RKO for one of her most memorable films, They Live by Night (1949) sta…
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Perry Mason
Norma Brooks
Climax!
Mona Herbert
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jennie Parsons
Matinee Theater
Lights Out
Ben-Hur
Tirzah
Sugarfoot
Angel
The Rebel
Prudence Gant
The Detectives
Tate
The Best Years of Our Lives
Wilma Cameron
The Man from Laramie
Barbara Waggoman
Detective Story
Susan Carmichael
They Live by Night
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
The Story of Mankind
Early Christian Woman
The Miniver Story
Judy Miniver
The Amazing Mr. X
Janet Burke
Side Street
Ellen Norson
Bury Me Dead
Rusty
The Deerslayer
Judith Hutter
Loves of Three Queens
Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
The Woman's Angle
Nina van Rhyne
Eight O'Clock Walk
Jill Manning
My World Dies Screaming
Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
Mad at the World
Anne Bennett
Never Trust a Gambler
Virginia Merrill