Cathy Lewis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Cathy Lewis

actress

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1916

Place of Birth: Spokane, Washington, United States

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1968

Profession: actor, stage actor, voice actor, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Cathy Lewis

  • Catherine Lee Lewis (December 27, 1916 – November 20, 1968) was an American actress remembered best for numerous radio appearances but also noted for making a number of film and television appearances in the last decade of her life. According to Ron Lackmann's The Encyclopedia of American Radio, Lewis moved from Spokane to Chicago and found work on The First Nighter Program.
  • Other accounts say she first hoped to make it as a singer.
  • Eventually, Lewis moved to Hollywood, and had leading roles with the Pasadena Playhouse in productions of Stage Door, To Quito and Back, and Winterset, appearing with Robert Preston, Victor Mature, Dana Andrews, and Victor Jory.
  • Then came a year's tour with Alexander Woollcott's company in The Man Who Came to Dinner and with Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet. She met and married radio actor/writer/director Elliott Lewis (they shared the common surname before their marriage) in 1943.
  • Both Lewises were staples of vintage American radio; radio historians Gerald Nachman and John Dunning have written of their numerous, genre-spanning works in comedy and drama (they were, for example, regulars among what was known as Hollywood's Radio Row group of performers, appearing often---together and separately---on such programs as The Whistler), especially their co-creation of the respected anthology series On Stage and their stewardship (with Elliott Lewis directing and both of the couple acting) of the venerable mystery series Suspense. But while her husband would often be remembered most for his comic role in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (as bumbling buddy Frankie Remley), she would be most identified as the sensibly droll Jane Stacy rooming with scatterbrained Irma Peterson (Marie Wilson) in the 1947–54 radio and television comedy My Friend Irma.

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