Obituary: Actress and later interior decorator Cara Williams, known best to me as the co-star of the December Bride spinoff Pete and Gladys with Harry Morgan, has died. She lived a very long life when she passed away at the age of 96.
She was once married to actor John Drew Barrymore, who is the father of actress Drew Barrymore. I didn't know Cara Williams had a son with him. She also had a daughter from a previous marriage. However, she married a younger man in 1964, and that marriage last 54 years, until his death in 2018.
She was an underrated performer.
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Born as Bernice Kamiat in Brooklyn, N.Y. on June 29, 1925, Williams began working as an actress when she was a child. After her parents divorced, she relocated to Hollywood with her mother and began to attend the Hollywood Professional School, giving voice performances in cartoon shorts. At age 16, Williams was signed by 20th Century-Fox and began appearing in small, often unbilled parts in films such as “Wide Open Town,” “Happy Land” and “In the Meantime, Darling.”
Following a turn in a stage production of “Born Yesterday,” Williams career ignited in the late 1940s and ’50s. The actress earned big supporting roles in “Boomerang!,” “The Girl Next Door” and “The Helen Morgan Story.” She garnered an Academy Award nomination in the category of best supporting actress for her performance as a widowed mother in Stanley Kramer’s “The Defiant Ones,” acting opposite Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis. She later took on roles in comedies “Never Steal Anything Small” and “The Man From the Diners’ Club.”
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Even if it is the right-leaning The Federalist, at least somebody is finally outing the evil and pernicious queer theory.
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