1. At the time of her death, Williams was one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
24 Facts About Cara Williams
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Cara Williams was born Bernice Kamiat on June 29,1925, in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Romanian Jewish mother Florence "Flora" Kamiat and an Austrian Jewish father Benjamin Irving "Benny" Kamiat.
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Cara Williams began making impersonations of all the screen stars she watched in the movies there, and knew she wanted to be an actress.
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Cara Williams's parents divorced, and her mother relocated her to Los Angeles, where she chose Cara Williams as her stage name and attended the Hollywood Professional School.
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Cara Williams married Alan Gray in 1945; they had a daughter, Cathy Gray, but the marriage ended after two years.
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Cara Williams's first credited role was in the Western Wide Open Town, released in 1941.
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Cara Williams followed this with the dramas Girls Town and Happy Land with Don Ameche.
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Cara Williams appeared uncredited in the Oscar-nominated musical film Sweet and Low-Down and as a secretary in the Oscar-winning film Laura directed by Otto Preminger.
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Cara Williams had a supporting role in the drama In the Meantime, Darling, which stars Jeanne Crain.
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Cara Williams had supporting roles in the Oscar-nominated films Boomerang directed by Elia Kazan, and in Sitting Pretty.
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Cara Williams next had supporting roles in The Saxon Charm, which stars Susan Hayward, and Knock on Any Door, which stars Humphrey Bogart.
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Cara Williams started the early 1950s by appearing often on television.
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Cara Williams played supporting roles in the musicals The Girl Next Door and The Great Diamond Robbery.
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Cara Williams appeared in Monte Carlo Baby, a comedy with Audrey Hepburn.
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Cara Williams took time off during this period in which she was married to John Drew Barrymore and gave birth to their son, John Blyth Barrymore, in 1954.
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Cara Williams performed in the film Meet Me in Las Vegas, in which she performed the song "I Refuse to Rock n Roll" and a supporting role in The Helen Morgan Story, which stars Ann Blyth and Paul Newman.
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Cara Williams was cast as Billy's mother in The Defiant Ones, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Cara Williams co-starred with Danny Kaye in the comedy film The Man from the Diner's Club.
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Cara Williams brought the character to life, with Morgan retaining his role as her husband.
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Cara Williams was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.
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CBS returned Williams to prime time in 1964 in her own series, The Cara Williams Show, in which Frank Aletter and she portrayed a married couple who had to keep their marriage secret from their employer.
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Cara Williams guest-starred in three episodes of Rhoda in 1975, in the role of Mae.
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Cara Williams resided in Los Angeles and was married to a real-estate entrepreneur Asher Dann, her third husband, until his death in 2018.
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Cara Williams died on December 9,2021, at the age of 96 of a heart attack.