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33: 171:. In recognition of her work as Jane Stacy, she received the Ideal Secretary Award from the Executive Secretaries Club in 1948. She would play Jane Stacy until 1953, taking some time off from September 1948 and through the rest of the season due to overwork. 127:(December 27, 1916 – November 20, 1968) was an American actress on radio, film, and television. She is 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. 305:(1958). That same year, she and Elliott Lewis divorced, putting an end to their image as "Mr. and Mrs. Radio." A year later, she starred as half the title of a short-lived bid to bring another radio show, 1427: 222: 284:
The Lewises separated on their fourteenth anniversary, and Cathy filed for divorce, on the grounds of mental cruelty. The divorce was granted on April 16, 1958.
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In 1965 Lewis played steamboat Captain Samantha Stewart in a season 8 Wagon Train episode titled ‘The Captain Sam Story’. The episode aired on March 21.
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She worked with and publicly assessed the radio performances of some of the greatest screen talents of the day, including Cary Grant
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role on television for the show's first two seasons, but, overworked and tired of the role, left the show in 1953.
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She would be most identified as the sensibly droll secretary Jane Stacy rooming with scatterbrained Irma Peterson (
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Lewis played a widow courted by two muleskinners in the 1964 episode "Graydon's Charge" of the syndicated series
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as Fibber to Lewis's Molly. The show initially had mixed reviews, but it was cancelled during its first season.
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She began a recurring role as Deirdre Thompson, the snooty sister of George Baxter, on the television hit
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on November 6, 1940. On April 30, 1943, while Elliott was on leave from the Army, they married at
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Grant, Cary; Loy, Myrna; Sidney, Sylvia; Bennett, Joan; Pidgeon, Walter; Arnold, Edward (2006),
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in Los Angeles. Elliott's uncle Eddie Raiden was best man. Together, the couple worked on such
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Both Lewises were staples of vintage American radio in numerous, genre-spanning works in
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Most of her film work in the 1940s was in uncredited bit parts. She recreated her
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In 1961, Lewis received positive notice for her supporting role in the movie
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titled "The Thirteenth Sound" that aired in 1947 and an episode of
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Lewis died of cancer on November 20, 1968, in Hollywood aged 51.
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In 1962, she appeared (voice only) in the John Wayne movie
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She and Marie Wilson became close during the run of
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Index


Los Angeles, California
Elliott Lewis
Spokane, Washington
The First Nighter Program
Pasadena Playhouse
Marie Wilson
My Friend Irma
Sam Spade
I Love a Mystery
Gregory Peck
Joan Crawford
Joseph Cotten
June Havoc
Humphrey Bogart
Elliott Lewis
The Woodbury Playhouse
Chapman Park Hotel
old time radio
Voyage of the Scarlet Queen
Suspense
comedy
drama
The Whistler
On Stage
Twelve Players
The Party Crashers
Fibber McGee and Molly
Bob Sweeney
The Devil at 4 O'Clock

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