About
Cathy Downs
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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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| 1958 | Missile to the Moon | Actor | June Saxton | 57 Average |
| 1957 | The Amazing Colossal Man | Actor | Carol Forrest | 57 Average |
| 1957 | Curfew Breakers | Actor | Mrs. Bowman | 59 Average |
| 1956 | The She-Creature | Actor | Dorothy Chappel | 57 Average |
| 1956 | Kentucky Rifle | Actor | Amy Connors | 58 Average |
| 1956 | The Oklahoma Woman | Actor | Susan Grant | 58 Average |
| 1955 | The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Actor | Lois King | 57 Average |
| 1955 | The Big Tip Off | Actor | Sister Mary Joan of Arc | 59 Average |
| 1954 | The Joe Palooka Story | Actor | Ann Howe | N/A N/A |
| 1953 | The Flaming Urge | Actor | Charlotte Cruickshank | N/A N/A |
| 1953 | Bandits of the West | Actor | Joanne Collier | 59 Average |
| 1952 | Gobs and Gals | Actor | Betty Lou Prentice | N/A N/A |
| 1951 | Joe Palooka in Triple Cross | Actor | Anne Howe | N/A N/A |
| 1950 | Short Grass | Actor | Sharon Lynch | 59 Average |
| 1950 | The Sundowners | Actor | Kathleen Boyce | 58 Average |
| 1949 | Massacre River | Actor | Kitty Reid | 59 Average |
| 1948 | The Noose Hangs High | Actor | Carol Blair | 59 Average |
| 1948 | Panhandle | Actor | Jean 'Dusty' Stewart | 58 Average |
| 1947 | For You I Die | Actor | Hope Novak | 59 Average |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Actor | Clementine Carter | 65 Fair |
| 1946 | The Dark Corner | Actor | Mari Cathcart | 59 Average |