Olive Deering brushes off Stuart Whitman (1964)

Character actress Deering (1918-1986) was a Broadway and film actress active in the 50's and 60's. In CAGED (1950) she played the tragic young nurse jailed for unknowingly getting involved in a doctor's "dirty business" (Denied parole, she hangs herself). Here she is 14 years later (in one of her last filmed appearances) as a mental patient 'looking after' young Carol Lynley. She passed away at 67.
As a footnote, Olive was the first wife of director Leo Penn (which makes her Sean Penn's stepmother once removed?). She was also a sister-in-law to the great actress Kim Stanley who was married to Olive's brother, actor Arthur Ryder. Small world...isn't it?

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Check out Olive in "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" episode "One of the Family". What a performance!

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I have always loved Olive Deering in everything I saw her in. Fabulous, grand, intense actor. I would love to know more about her. On imdb, one guy wrote that he worked as an assistant on a play in New york around 1980. One of his jobs was tp pick up Deering's 'standing order" for lunch: Two cream-cheese/jelly sandwiches and two cups of tea - one cup with the bag already in; the other with hot water and the bag on the side. Would love to know more about her. She was great.

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That was me. I worked with Miss Deering when she performed in an off-off Broadway play at the Harold Clurman Theater in NYC.

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Jeffrey Arsenault She seemed a true gem of a woman.

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