{"id":4171,"date":"2025-03-03T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:24:22","slug":"happy-birthday-cathy-downs-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/03\/happy-birthday-cathy-downs-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumna Cathy Downs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">March 3, 1926 \u2013 December 8, 1976<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Catherine M. Downs worked as a model before becoming a Fox contract player in 1944; starring opposite Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine (1946), and episodic roles on classic Westerns such as The Lone Ranger (1952) and Rawhide (1961). CDF aficionados will remember her from a pair of CDF classics \u2014 as Dorothy Chappel in THE SHE-CREATURE (1956), and Carol Forrest in THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1265\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy Downs photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3, 1926 \u2013 December 8, 1976 Catherine M. Downs worked as a model before becoming a Fox contract player in 1944; starring opposite Henry Fonda in My Darling Clementine (1946), and episodic roles on classic Westerns such as The Lone Ranger (1952) and Rawhide (1961). CDF aficionados will remember her from a pair of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,190,193,15,7,5,6,32,16,373],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actress","tag-amazingcolossalman","tag-cathydowns","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-happybirthday","tag-movies","tag-theshecreature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cathy-Downs_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}