Olive Deering

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Olive Deering
Born Olive Corn
October 11, 1918(1918-10-11)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died March 22, 1986(1986-03-22) (aged 67)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Years active 1947–1973
Spouse Leo Penn (divorced)

Olive Deering (October 11, 1918 – March 22, 1986) was an American television actress, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was the sister of actor Alfred Ryder.

Her first stage roles was a walk on bit role 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.[1]

She appeared in several films, including Shock Treatment, Caged, and Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah as Miriam, a role she reprised in DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Deering appeared on many radio programs, including work in the serials, True Story and Against the Storm, playing in more than 200 television programs, including Desdemona on the Philco Summer Playhouse production of Othello. One of her last television appearances was in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour called "One of the Family" (original air date February 8, 1965).[2]

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She died of cancer at the age of 67, and was interred in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Divorced from film director Leo Penn, she had no children and was survived only by her brother, actor Alfred Ryder.

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