Cathy O'Donnell
Nascimento : 1923-07-06, Siluria, Alabama, USA
Morte : 1970-04-11
História
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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Tirzah
Na Judéia invadida pelos conquistadores romanos, o príncipe Ben-Hur tenta conduzir seu povo rumo à liberdade. Mas isso gera um conflito de interesses com o seu amigo de infância, Messala, agora um severo comandante dos exércitos de Roma. Preso, o príncipe é enviado para trabalhar como escravo, longe de suas terras, família e sua amada Esther (Haya Harareet). O pacífico Ben-Hur transforma-se em um guerreiro forte e corajoso, disposto a enfrentar seus inimigos e restabelecer a paz.
Sheila Wayne Tierney (as Kathy O'Donnell)
A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
Early Christian Woman
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Judith Hutter
After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
Barbara Waggoman
O misterioso Will Lockhart entrega suprimentos à lojista Barbara Waggoman em Coronado, uma cidade isolada em território Apache. Em pouco tempo, ele é confrontado por Dave Waggoman, o sádico filho do fazendeiro Alec e primo da bela Bárbara. Mas ele fica para a cidade, e sua presença é um catalisador de mudança na vida do povo, procurando alguém que não sabe quem ele é... mas que foi responsável pela venda de espingardas para os Apaches.
Anne Bennett
A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the WolfPack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve.
Jill Manning
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Enone (segment: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
Nina van Rhyne
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Susan Carmichael
Conta a história de um dia na vida de várias pessoas que passam por um esquadrão de detetives da polícia. Um policial amargurado, Det. Jim McLeod (Douglas) lidera uma série de personagens em sua sombria batalha diária com a baixa qualidade da cidade. Os personagens que passam pela delegacia ao longo do dia incluem um jovem trapaceiro, um par de ladrões e um ingênuo ladrão de lojas.
Virginia Merrill
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
Judy Miniver
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 tensions within the family.
Ellen Norson
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 few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Catherine "Keechie" Mobley
Após fugir de uma prisão, o jovem Bowie quer provar sua inocência e viver em paz com sua amada Kitty. Quando seus colegas de cela o convencem a ajudá-los em uma série de crimes, ele passa a ser considerado pela polícia como o líder da gangue.
Janet Burke
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 man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Rusty
A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket.
Wilma Cameron
Após a Segunda Guerra, 3 militares retornam aos seus lares e tentam se readaptar à sociedade. O maior clássico de guerra dos anos 40, este comovente e ainda atualíssimo filme, com roteiro de Robert Sherwood e a direção de Willian Wyller foi grande sucesso de bilheteria sendo vencedor de 7 Oscars.
