Cathy Downs

from Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, USA

Artwork for My Darling ClementineImage of Cathy Downs

Biography

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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.

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Timeline

1958Aged 32

  • Poster for Missile to the Moon

    June Saxton

1957Aged 31

  • Poster for Curfew Breakers

    Mrs. Bowman

  • Poster for The Amazing Colossal Man

    Carol Forrest

1956Aged 30

  • Poster for The Oklahoma Woman

    Susan Grant

  • Poster for Kentucky Rifle

    Amy Connors

  • Poster for The She-Creature

    Dorothy Chappel

1955Aged 29

  • Poster for The Big Tip Off

    Sister Mary Joan of Arc

  • Poster for The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues

    Lois King

1953Aged 27

  • Poster for Bandits of the West

    Joanne Collier

  • Poster for The Flaming Urge

    Charlotte Cruickshank

1952Aged 26

  • Poster for Gobs and Gals

    Betty Lou Prentice

1951Aged 25

  • Poster for Triple Cross

    Anne Howe

1950Aged 24

  • Poster for The Sundowners

    Kathleen Boyce

  • Poster for Short Grass

    Sharon Lynch

1949Aged 23

  • Poster for Massacre River

    Kitty Reid

1948Aged 22

  • Poster for Panhandle

    Jean 'Dusty' Stewart

  • Poster for The Noose Hangs High

    Carol Blair

1947Aged 21

  • Poster for For You I Die

    Hope Novak

1946Aged 20

  • Poster for The Dark Corner

    Mari Cathcart

  • Poster for My Darling Clementine

    Clementine Carter