Olive Deering

 Olive Deering, born Olive Corn (October 11, 1918 – March 22, 1986)

Deering was an actress of film, television, and the stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder. Her first stage role was a walk-on bit 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. In 1940, Deering and Ryder co-starred in Medicine Show on Broadway.In 1980, Deering and Ryder appeared in The Harold Clurman Theater's production of "The Two-Character Play." The films she appeared in included Shock Treatment and Caged. In 1948, director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Miriam, the Danite girl who loves Samson, in his film Samson and Delilah. In his autobiography, DeMille wrote that Deering was "one whose talent and dedication to her art should carry her very far in the theater, whether on screen or stage." DeMille cast her again, this time in the role of the real biblical Miriam, the sister of Moses, in The Ten Commandments (1956). Deering married film director Leo Penn on February 19, 1947 in Los Angeles, California. They would later divorce in 1952. She died of cancer at the age of 67, and is interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.