Olive Deering

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Olive Deering (Template:Née Corn; October 11, 1918 – March 22, 1986) was an American actress of film, television, and stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio,[1] as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.

Early life

Deering was the daughter of Zelda "Sadie" (née Baruchin)[2] and Max Corn,[3][2] a dentist. [4] Her brother was actor Alfred Ryder. She began attending the Professional Children's School when she was age 11.[5]

Career

Stage

Her first stage role was a walk-on bit in Girls in Uniform (1933). She appeared onstage in Moss Hart's Winged Victory, Richard II (starring Maurice Evans) and Counsellor-at-Law (starring Paul Muni). She received kudos for her performance in the Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer. Other stage appearances included No for an Answer, Ceremony of Innocence, Marathon '33, The Young Elizabeth, They Walk Alone, and Garden District.[6]

In 1940, siblings Deering and Ryder co-starred in Medicine Show on Broadway.[7] In 1980, Deering and Ryder appeared in revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play at the studio theater of The Harold Clurman Theater. Deering received good notices for the play.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Film

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as Miriam, with Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston, in The Ten Commandments (1956)

The films she appeared in included Shock Treatment and Caged. In 1948, director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Miriam, the Danite girl who loves Samson, in his film Samson and Delilah. In his autobiography, DeMille wrote that Deering was "one whose talent and dedication to her art should carry her very far in the theater, whether on screen or stage."[8] DeMille cast her again as the biblical Miriam, sister of Moses, in The Ten Commandments (1956).[9]

Radio

Deering also appeared on many radio programs, which included Lone Journey,[10] True Story and Against the Storm, playing in more than 200 television programs, including Desdemona on the Philco Summer Playhouse production of Othello.

Television

Deering's early television appearances included co-starring in "The Unconquered", an episode of Somerset Maugham TV Theatre, on November 19, 1950,[11] and appearing in an episode of Suspense on June 12, 1951.[12] Others included the role of murderess Rebecca Gentrie in the 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Empty Tin". On June 6, 1962, she starred in "Journey to Oblivion", an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre.[13]

She had a supporting role in the Sci Fi series Outer Limits in the episode "The Zanti Misfits", which aired on December 30, 1963. One of her later television appearances was in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, titled "One of the Family" (original air date February 8, 1965).[14]

Personal life and death

Deering married film director Leo Penn on February 19, 1947 in Los Angeles, California;[15] they later divorced. She was married, secondly, to Alan James from 1959 until his death in 1969.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

A Democrat, she supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.[16]

She died of cancer at the age of 67, and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. She had no children and was survived by her brother Alfred Ryder.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Film appearances

Year Title Role Notes
1948 Gentleman's Agreement First Woman uncredited
1949 Air Hostess Helen Field
1949 Samson and Delilah Miriam
1950 Caged June Roberts, Inmate
1956 The Ten Commandments Miriam
1964 Shock Treatment Mrs. Mellon
1973 Howzer Mary Carver

Radio appearances

Year Program Episode
1951 Grand Central Station God's Own Mountain[17]
1953 Marcia Akers Marcia Akers[18]
1956 City Hospital [19]

Television appearances

Year Program Episode Role
1950 Television Theater Portrait in Smoke[20]
1951 Kraft Television Theatre Kelly Odette
1951 Danger Lady on the Rock Loreli
1951 Tales of Tomorrow The Search for the Flying Saucer[21]
1955 Studio One Summer Theater The Pit[22]
1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook The Wild Swant[23]
1958 Climax! Deadly Tattoo[24]
1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 4 Episode 25: "The Kind Waitress"[25] Thelma Tompkins
1959 Johnny Staccato The Wild Reed[26]
1959 One Step Beyond The Burning Girl
1960 Markham "The Searing Flame" episode[27]
1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre The Numbers Racket[28]
1963 The Outer Limits The Zanti Misfits[29]
1965 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 3 Episode 16: "One of the Family" Christine Callendar

References

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