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Cara Williams (born June 29, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

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 and television
Television

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 actress
Actor

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.

iams was born Bernice Kamiat. Her father was an Austria
Austria

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n immigrant, and her mother was the child of Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n immigrants. She began her screen acting career in 1941, and was initially billed as Bernice Kay. Williams earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 nomination in 1959 for The Defiant Ones
The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....
.

She starred opposite Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan is an Emmy-winning United States television actor. Morgan is perhaps best-known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H , "Pete" on Pete and Gladys and December Bride, and Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet ....
 in the CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Pete and Gladys
Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys is an United States situation comedy broadcast by Columbia Broadcasting System on Monday night at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960....
 (1960–1962), and earned an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 nomination in 1962 for Best Actress in a Series.






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Cara Williams (born June 29, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Biography

Williams was born Bernice Kamiat. Her father was an Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n immigrant, and her mother was the child of Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n immigrants. She began her screen acting career in 1941, and was initially billed as Bernice Kay. Williams earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 nomination in 1959 for The Defiant Ones
The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....
.

She starred opposite Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan is an Emmy-winning United States television actor. Morgan is perhaps best-known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H , "Pete" on Pete and Gladys and December Bride, and Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet ....
 in the CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Pete and Gladys
Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys is an United States situation comedy broadcast by Columbia Broadcasting System on Monday night at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960....
 (1960–1962), and earned an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 nomination in 1962 for Best Actress in a Series. She later had her own CBS sitcom, The Cara Williams Show (1964–1965), with costars Frank Aletter
Frank Aletter

Frank Aletter is an American stage, film, and television actor.During the 1950s Aletter appeared on broadway in Bells Are Ringing, Time Limit, and Wish You Were Here ....
, previously the star of Bringing Up Buddy
Bringing Up Buddy

Bringing Up Buddy is a 39-episode situation comedy television series which aired on CBS during the 1960?1961 season. In the story line, Frank Aletter, a native of Queens, New York, plays the orphaned Buddy Flower, a bachelor stockbroker, who is reared by his overprotective and meticulous aunts, Violet Flower and Iris Flower, played by Eni...
 on CBS, and Jack Sheldon
Jack Sheldon

File:Bubba Kolb, Jack Sheldon, Ira sullivan.jpgJack Sheldon is an American bebop and West Coast jazz trumpeter, singer, and actor. He is probably best remembered as a trumpet player and comedian on The Merv Griffin Show....
, later star of the short-lived 1966 series, Run, Buddy, Run
Run, Buddy, Run

Run, Buddy, Run is a 16-episode situation comedy starring Jack Sheldon , which ran on CBS television from September 12, 1966, until January 2, 1967....
, also on CBS. Williams and Aletter played a married couple trying to keep their union secret because company policy did not permit employees to marry within the company. The series was created by Keefe Brasselle's Richelieu Productions, along with two other programs that season, The Reporter
The Reporter (TV series)

The Reporter is a Columbia Broadcasting System dramatic television series starring 38-year-old Harry Guardino as Danny Taylor, a reporter for the fictitious New York Globe newspaper, which aired thirteen episodes from September 25 to December 18, 1964....
 starring Harry Guardino
Harry Guardino

Harry Guardino was an United States actor whose career spanned from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. In 1964, he was cast in a short-lived Columbia Broadcasting System television series entitled The Reporter , a drama about a hard-hitting investigative journalist named Danny Taylor....
 and Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill

Gary F. Merrill was an United States film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances....
 and the sitcom The Baileys of Balboa
The Baileys of Balboa

The Baileys of Balboa is an United States Situation comedy that appeared on CBS for the 1964-1965 season. The series lasted for only one season, showing twenty-six episodes....
.

In Meet Me in Las Vegas
Meet Me in Las Vegas

Meet Me in Las Vegas is an MGM musical comedy produced by Joe Pasternack and directed by Roy Rowland filmed in Eastman Color and CinemaScope....
 (1956) she played a redheaded dancer who performed a notable number, declaring she did not like rock 'n' roll. She played James Cagney
James Cagney

James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film star. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guy"s....
's girl friend in the musical comedy Never Steal Anything Small
Never Steal Anything Small

Never Steal Anything Small is a musical comedy film starring James Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams, Nehemiah Persoff, Royal Dano, and Horace McMahon....
 (1959) and even had a duet with Cagney.

During the early to mid-1960s, CBS executives groomed Williams to be the next Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball was an United States comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model , film industry, and star of the landmark sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy....
, but these plans never materialized. After the demise of her show, she did guest roles on other shows, briefly appearing as a regular on Valerie Harper
Valerie Harper

Valerie Harper is an Emmy Award-winning United States actress, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970s television show The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and its spin-off, Rhoda....
's CBS series Rhoda
Rhoda

Rhoda is an United States Situation comedy starring Valerie Harper. It was a list of television spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ran for five seasons between 1974-1978....
.

Personal life

Williams married John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore

John Drew Barrymore, born John Blyth Barrymore, Jr. , was a member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore....
 (later the father of Drew
Drew Barrymore

Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actor and film producer. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She began acting when she was eleven months old....
) in 1952. They divorced in 1959. Their son, John Blyth Barrymore
John Blyth Barrymore

John Blyth Barrymore III is an actor.Known for his role as Zeke in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu , he is a member of the Barrymore family, notable for success in acting....
, is also an actor.

Select filmography

  • Boomerang
    Boomerang (1947 film)

    Boomerang! is a 1947 in film film based on a true story about the early career of Attorney General Homer Cummings. The film was directed by Elia Kazan, based on a story in Reader's Digest and was shot largely in Stamford, Connecticut....
     (1947)
  • Monte Carlo Baby
    Monte Carlo Baby

    Monte Carlo Baby is the title of a United Kingdom comedy film first released in 1951 in film co-directed by Jean Boyer and Lester Fuller. It featured an early performance by Audrey Hepburn playing a spoiled actress....
     (1951)
  • Meet Me in Las Vegas
    Meet Me in Las Vegas

    Meet Me in Las Vegas is an MGM musical comedy produced by Joe Pasternack and directed by Roy Rowland filmed in Eastman Color and CinemaScope....
     (1956)
  • The Helen Morgan Story
    The Helen Morgan Story

    The Helen Morgan Story is a 1957 United States biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Oscar Saul, Dean Riesner, Stephen Longstreet, and Nelson Gidding is based on the life and career of Torch song/actor Helen Morgan, with fictional touches liberally added for dramatic purposes....
     (1957)
  • The Defiant Ones
    The Defiant Ones

    The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....
     (1958)
  • Never Steal Anything Small
    Never Steal Anything Small

    Never Steal Anything Small is a musical comedy film starring James Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams, Nehemiah Persoff, Royal Dano, and Horace McMahon....
     (1959)
  • The Man from the Diner's Club (1963)
  • The White Buffalo (1977)


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