Cathy Downs
Gender: Female
Born: 3rd March 1926
Died: 8th December 1976
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The Joe Palooka Story
Movies: My Darling Clementine, Missile to the Moon, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, The Noose Hangs High, The Dark Corner, The Sundowners, The She Creature, The Flaming Urge, Panhandle, The Oklahoma Woman
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.
She was married first to Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (1952–1955; divorced) who played the character Joe Palooka in films and on TV. They had long been out of touch, when, in 1976 Kirkwood heard that Downs was in dire financial circumstances.
Kirkwood was setting up a trust fund for her when he learned she had died of cancer at the age
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