She was in Alabama until age 12, Ann Steely attended high school and college in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, then worked as a stenographer to finance a trip to Hollywood, where fortune favored her with a contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer under 'Samuel Goldwyn' , and then she worked in TV until 1961. Belying Goldwyn's opinion, her marriage to Wyler proved happy though childless. Her death on their 22nd wedding anniversary, on Saturday, April 11th, 1970 followed a long struggle with cancer.
Most sources give her birth year as 1925, but some give 1923.
Cathys ancestry was Irish.
Her parents separated when she was a child.
Her chief leisure pursuit was writing poetry.
Of Cathys 17 films (all in starring or featured roles), 7 are film-noir or quasi-film-noir, making her a major contributor to the genre.
One secondary source gives her cause of death as cerebral hemorrhage, but all primary sources indicate cancer.
Sister-in-law of William Wyler , niece-in-law of Carl Laemmle , cousin-in-law of Carl Laemmle Jr.
Aunt of Catherine Wyler and Judy Wyler.
In 1947, she accepted the Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" on behalf of Fredric March , who was not present at the awards ceremony.
Samuel Goldwyn , who was feuding with director William Wyler after Wyler left the fold, insisted that Cathy divorce her husband Robert Wyler , Williams brother. When she refused, she was let go by Goldwyn.
Was discovered at the counter of Schwabs Pharmacy by a talent scout for Samuel Goldwyn.
