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Cathy O'Donnell
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) starring with Farley Granger, widely considered a classic of the noir genre and on the Guardian's list of the top ten noir films. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray. The two actors later re-teamed for another movie, Side Street (1950).
Later O'Donnell starred in The Miniver Story (also 1950), as Judy Miniver and also had a supporting role in Detective Story (1951). She appeared as Barbara Waggoman, the love interest of James Stewart's character in the western The Man from Laramie (1955). Her final film role was the title character's sister Tirzah in William Wyler's 1959 Academy Award winning Best Picture Ben-Hur (1959).
In the 1960s, she appeared in TV shows, playing mostly bit parts on shows such as Perry Mason, The Rebel and Man Without a Gun. Her last screen appearance was in 1964, in an episode of Bonanza.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 19.971 |
Birthday | 1923-07-06 |
Place of Birth | Siluria, Alabama, USA |
Also Known As | Ann Steely, |
![Ben-Hur](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/m4WQ1dBIrEIHZNCoAjdpxwSKWyH.jpg)
1959
![Ben-Hur](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/m4WQ1dBIrEIHZNCoAjdpxwSKWyH.jpg)
Ben-Hur
7.889/2683
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of t...
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![The Best Years of Our Lives](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gd5EoAU4MM57sW3vlWxJ0NMM8cV.jpg)
1946
![The Best Years of Our Lives](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gd5EoAU4MM57sW3vlWxJ0NMM8cV.jpg)
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.8/625
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
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![Detective Story](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uXfkupU1a0gePncfdEV7STgsYtU.jpg)
1951
![Detective Story](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/uXfkupU1a0gePncfdEV7STgsYtU.jpg)
Detective Story
6.953/137
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a preci...
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![The Amazing Mr. X](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7CQ5G1Jpmu2ppeHxTx47DpJ5YEw.jpg)
1948
![The Amazing Mr. X](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7CQ5G1Jpmu2ppeHxTx47DpJ5YEw.jpg)
The Amazing Mr. X
6.2/39
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark ma...
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![Bury Me Dead](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gpHUMnEROUYxM4uiU4AEsYa5A6E.jpg)
1947
![Bury Me Dead](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gpHUMnEROUYxM4uiU4AEsYa5A6E.jpg)
Bury Me Dead
4.7/16
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
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![The Story of Mankind](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lkjbuh3YRgA191YFvlwKPe7qb9U.jpg)
1957
![The Story of Mankind](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lkjbuh3YRgA191YFvlwKPe7qb9U.jpg)
The Story of Mankind
4.476/21
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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![Side Street](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yt3VdPaLWhfgwsCMMW4DIVlgzdd.jpg)
1950
![Side Street](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yt3VdPaLWhfgwsCMMW4DIVlgzdd.jpg)
Side Street
6.6/35
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a...
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![The Man from Laramie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aKMZoZpN0FobSIDAlj5Ixv0kDeT.jpg)
1955
![The Man from Laramie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aKMZoZpN0FobSIDAlj5Ixv0kDeT.jpg)
The Man from Laramie
7.156/225
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillin...
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![Mad at the World](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8vgJ4s9tIvH6k5A9KKB8lrYJTV9.jpg)
1955
![Mad at the World](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8vgJ4s9tIvH6k5A9KKB8lrYJTV9.jpg)
Mad at the World
5.7/6
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured becau...
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Mad at the World
![My World Dies Screaming](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rwqnziu2sVLnvgmAdaWcrEnVhaH.jpg)
1958
![My World Dies Screaming](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rwqnziu2sVLnvgmAdaWcrEnVhaH.jpg)
My World Dies Screaming
5.8/10
A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
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![Eight O'Clock Walk](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1HQY95MCUx8AJWStB0aAkXyTlfB.jpg)
1954
![Eight O'Clock Walk](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1HQY95MCUx8AJWStB0aAkXyTlfB.jpg)
Eight O'Clock Walk
6.7/7
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
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![The Deerslayer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/p4h18QD4D4IckCM9kmclOGQQ9Y2.jpg)
1957
![The Deerslayer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/p4h18QD4D4IckCM9kmclOGQQ9Y2.jpg)
The Deerslayer
5.4/11
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostil...
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![Never Trust a Gambler](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xeZK7AckiK8BRelcaO8XjVl9NED.jpg)
1951
![Never Trust a Gambler](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xeZK7AckiK8BRelcaO8XjVl9NED.jpg)
Never Trust a Gambler
5.4/5
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
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![The Miniver Story](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oDv5a1KUeVmiVsebSYgSIAVsvJn.jpg)
1950
![The Miniver Story](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oDv5a1KUeVmiVsebSYgSIAVsvJn.jpg)
The Miniver Story
6/11
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing...
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![They Live by Night](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9EI0n0ESp1DZJd7PI7LENk9PO2e.jpg)
1949
![They Live by Night](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9EI0n0ESp1DZJd7PI7LENk9PO2e.jpg)
They Live by Night
6.85/160
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the...
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![The Woman's Angle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oJNdl34gxHPfIvWcHvUmcCvyxtp.jpg)
1952
![The Woman's Angle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oJNdl34gxHPfIvWcHvUmcCvyxtp.jpg)
The Woman's Angle
0/0
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search,...
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![Loves of Three Queens](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/q7XMEiEJpSm6iQfUoa9ldqTMByV.jpg)
1954
![Loves of Three Queens](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/q7XMEiEJpSm6iQfUoa9ldqTMByV.jpg)
Loves of Three Queens
0/0
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, re...
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