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Cara Williams (b. Bernice Kamiat, Brooklyn, New York, 29 June 1925) is a former American film and television actress, whose career covering roles in several films and shows---including one Academy Award nomination (Best Supporting Actress, The Defiant Ones, 1958)---is remembered less than her short-lived 1964 situation comedy, The Cara Williams Show. She played a divorcee who marries a colleague (played by Frank Aletter) and has to keep the marriage secret, because their employer's policy forbids inter-office relationships. The show was one of three shows produced by actor-turned-producer Keefe Brasselle and sold to Brasselle's longtime friend, then-CBS president Jim Aubrey. All three shows were ratings bombs that season and may have helped pave the way for the controversial Aubrey's firing a year later.

Williams was married to actor John Drew Barrymore (later the father of actress Drew) from 1952 until their divorce in 1959. Following the demise of her own show, Williams went on to other guest roles including a brief turn as a regular on Rhoda
. Before her film and television career took off in earnest, Williams' first professional acting job was supplying vocal impressions of famous movie stars for animated cartoons, before two film roles billed as Bernice Kay.

Films

Williams appeared in over 25 films including:

Laura (1944)
(uncredited)
Boomerang! (1947)
Knock on Any Door (1949) (uncredited)

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