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Actor, Cathy O'Donnell, was born Ann Steely on Jul 6, 1923 in Siluria, AL. O'Donnell died at the age of 46 on Apr 11, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA .

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Wilma Cameron: You wrote me that when you got home, you and I were going to be married. If you wrote that once, you wrote it a hundred times. Isn't that true?
Homer Parrish: Yes, but things are different now.
Wilma Cameron: Have you changed your mind?
Homer Parrish: Have I said anything about changing my mind?
Wilma Cameron: No. That's just it. You haven't said anything about anything... I don't know what to think, Homer. All I know is, I was in love with you when you left and I'm in love with you now. Other things may have changed but that hasn't.


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Sheila Wayne: And then through the branches of the old trees I see the house again. It sits there waiting for me. Silent, malignant. A place of unspeakable horror. There is no one there now. On a mailbox beside the driveway, I can make out the name of the people who lived there once: Tierney. But the Tierneys must have all gone away a long time ago. And the house stands like a moldering tombstone to a world that died. There is an old-fashioned knocker on the door. An unseen hand always opens the door for me. I always go up the shadowy stairway as if I know exactly where to find the answer to what has drawn me here. It's behind a little unmarked door. And some unearthly power swings it open to receive me. I look up that narrow, dusty stairway, and for a moment that is so brief, so filled with terror that my mind cannot hold onto it, I know why I had to come to this place.


Sheila Wayne: All I know is that death in its most hideous form waits for me at the top of those stairs.


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Cathy O'Donnell Facts
Samuel Goldwyn, who was feuding with director William Wyler after Wyler left the fold, insisted that Cathy divorce her husband Robert Wyler, William's brother. When she refused, she was let go by Goldwyn.

One secondary source gives her cause of death as cerebral hemorrhage, but all primary sources indicate cancer.

Of Cathy's 17 films (all in starring or featured roles), 7 are film-noir or quasi-film-noir, making her a major contributor to the genre.

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