Cara Williams

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cara Williams is an American film and television actress. Born as Bernice Kamiat to an Austrian emigrant father and a mother of Romanian descent, she began her screen acting career in 1941, and was initially billed as Bernice Kay. Williams earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination in 1959 for her role in the film, The Defiant Ones. She starred opposite Harry Morgan in the CBS situation comedy Pete and Gladys, and earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1962 for Best Actress in a Series. She later had her own CBS sitcom, The Cara Williams Show, with costars Frank Aletter, previously the star of Bringing Up Buddy on CBS, and Jack Sheldon, later star of the short-lived 1966 series, Run, Buddy, Run, also on CBS. On the series, Williams and Aletter played a married couple, Frank and Cara Bridges, who tried to keep their union secret because company policy did not permit employees to marry within the company they both worked for, called Fenwick Diversified Industries