Biography for
Cathy Downs More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

3 March 1924, Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, USA

Date of Death

8 December 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Mini Biography

A pleasant, attractive leading lady, Cathy Downs was an "outdoors type" who worked as a model before she became a Fox contract player in 1944. In the late 1940s she was being groomed for major success -- e.g., she played the title role in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) -- but most of her subsequent movie roles were in low-budget westerns, action and horror pictures. She was married to Joe Kirkwood Jr., an actor and producer who played Joe Palooka in a series of low-budget 1940-'50s films. They acted together in a short-lived TV series "The Joe Palooka Story" (1954). She is well-regarded in science-fiction fan circles as a memorable heroine of 1950s sci-fi flicks.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Jeff Frentzen

Spouse

Joe Kirkwood Jr.	(1952 - 1955) (divorced)
Robert Brunson	(? - ?) (divorced)

Trivia

Her ex-husband, Joe Kirkwood Jr., had been out of touch with Cathy for years when he found out she was in dire financial circumstances. He was drawing up a trust fund for her in 1976 when he learned that she had died.

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