Cathy Downs

Cathy Downs

Nacimiento : 1926-03-03, Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, USA

Muerte : 1976-12-08

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cathy Downs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Cathy Downs

Películas

Invasión a la Luna
June Saxton
Un oscuro científico ha concebido un cohete para viajar a la Luna. En su descabellada misión embarca, en contra de su voluntad, a una pareja y un par de jóvenes delincuentes. Al llegar a su destino, hallan un mundo habitado únicamente por mujeres. Éstas buscan otro planeta que habitar, pues su supervivencia en la Luna se ve amenazada por un enrarecimiento del aire y otras criaturas extraterrestres.
El asombroso hombre creciente
Carol Forrest
Un coronel del ejército queda atrapado en una prueba nuclear. Pero esto no sólo no lo lleva a la muerte sino que provoca una horrible mutación que le proporciona un tamaño descomunal. El crecimiento también trae desequilibrios mentales que lo llevan a atacar Las Vegas.
Curfew Breakers
Mrs. Bowman
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas station attendant in an aborted hold-up attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. With the aid of some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice.
La criatura
Dorothy Chappel
La bella asistente (Marla English) de un hipnotizador misterioso y malvado (Chester Morris) ignora ser descendiente de un horrendo monstruo marino prehistórico, en el cual se convierte cuando su jefe la hipnotiza. Cuando el monstruo se manifiesta, mata a quien se interponga en su camino. Un empresario se entera de las fechorías del hipnotizador, e idea una manera de sacar provecho de tanta muerte y destrucción. Mientras tanto, cada vez que la asistente está hipnotizada y el monstruo emerge, ella logra controlarlo más y más...
El hombre de Kentucky
Amy Connors
En 1820, Big Eli (Burt Lancaster) y su hijo deciden abandonar Kentucky para empezar una nueva vida en Texas. Antes de llegar a su destino, se detienen en el pueblo, donde vive el hermano mayor de Eli, y surgen entonces ciertas dificultades. A pesar de ser un gran cazador, Eli no encuentra oportunidades. Además tiene un altercado con el sheriff, que lo encierra en prisión. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Oklahoma Woman
Susan Grant
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Lois King
Un extraño “fantasma” submarino ha estado causando algunas muertes. La investigación muestra que el sospechoso es un oceanógrafo que ha estado investigando el lugar. Todo indica que el fondo marino ha sufrido algún tipo de mutación y ha creado una criatura asesina.
The Big Tip Off
Sister Mary Joan of Arc
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
The Flaming Urge
Charlotte Cruickshank
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire.
Bandits of the West
Joanne Collier
Marshal Rocky Lane learns of a plan to obstruct the promotion of natural gas in his town.
Gobs and Gals
Betty Lou Prentice
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Anne Howe
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
Short Grass
Sharon Lynch
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattleman’s grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actor’s 10 films with busy shoot-‘em-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a “three-hour tour” to Gilligan’s Island.
El cuatrero errante
Kathleen Boyce
En el lejano oeste, dos hermanos, James y Tom, viven enfrentados por estar situados cada uno a un bando de la ley. Todo se complica cuando el hijo de James se ve amenazado por el forajido de su tío Tom
Massacre River
Kitty Reid
Two Cavalry Officers clash over the Colonel's Daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
The Noose Hangs High
Carol Blair
Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.
Panhandle
Jean 'Dusty' Stewart
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
For You I Die
Hope Novak
A convict is forced to participate in a prison break even though he only has a year left on his sentence.
Pasión de los fuertes
Clementine Carter
A Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda), antiguo sheriff de Dodge City, le ofrecen el puesto de comisario de la ciudad de Tombstone, pero lo rechaza porque le interesa más el negocio ganadero al que se dedica con sus hermanos. Sin embargo, cuando uno de ellos muere asesinado, acepta el puesto vacante y nombra ayudantes a sus hermanos. Contará también con la amistad y la colaboración de un jugador y pistolero llamado Doc Holliday (Victor Mature).
Envuelto en la sombra
Mari Cathcart
Un detective privado, que casi vive en la miseria, descubre un día que lo están siguiendo. Tras acorralar a su perseguidor, averigua que actúa a las órdenes de un antiguo socio con el que acabó enemistado. Poco después se ve envuelto en un calculado plan de asesinato.