Cathy O'Donnell
Cathy O'Donnell (Actually, Ann Steely ) ( born July 6, 1923 in Siluria, Alabama, † April 11, 1970 in Los Angeles ) was an American film actress.
Life and career
After attending high school and college in Oklahoma City O'Donnell, who was still called at that time Ann Steely worked as a stenographer in order to finance themselves moving to Hollywood, where she was taken by film producer Samuel Goldwyn under contract.
He recognized the potential of the young woman, enabled her to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and gave her her Irish -sounding stage name - Cathy O'Donnell.
1945 - at the age of 22 years - was O'Donnell's film debut in the drama The Miracle Man, directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.
The abrupt end of their work with Goldwyn took place on April 11, 1946, when she married the senior by 25 years director Robert Wyler at the age of 23 years. This, however, was a competitor of Goldwyn, when it came time to get film projects. Goldwyn announced O'Donnell's contract.
Most films of the 1950s, in which O'Donnell was involved, now made in collaboration with her husband. There were mainly classics, in which she played the naive young girl next door; so including the 1951 crime film produced police station 21, with Kirk Douglas as a movie partner. The government took over her brother, William Wyler. She also starred opposite James Stewart in The Man from Laramie Western directed by Anthony Mann ( 1955). In man they had already played in 1950 in Side Street.
Her last feature film was also directed by William Wyler epic film Ben Hur in 1959. Finally In 1964, the actress in an episode of Bonanza.
Cathy O'Donnell died on 11 April 1970 at their 24th wedding anniversary with cancer.
The marriage with Robert Wyler, should they survive only nine months remained childless.