Trivia

Deering was one of the busiest and most often-seen actresses in the Golden Age of live television drama.

Younger sister of Alfred Ryder. Ex-sister-in-law of Kim Stanley.

Her favorite pastimes were going to the theater, painting landscapes, and listening to music.

Although she played Martha Scott's daughter in The Ten Commandments (1956), she was only six years her junior in real life.

Primarily a stage and radio actress before 1950s television came along, her more notable stage performances included working opposite Paul Muni in a revival of "Counselor-at-Law" on Broadway (1942) and playing the Queen to Maurice Evans's "King Richard II" five years earlier (1937).

Schooled at the Professional Children's School, and made her stage debut in 1933, at the age of 15, with a mute walk-on role in a NY production of "Girls in Uniform".

Her two most famous film roles were featured in Cecil B. DeMille's last two biblical epics, Samson and Delilah (1949) and The Ten Commandments (1956). In his autobiography, DeMille wrote: " ... and among the several featured players who gave excellent performances [in "Samson and Delilah"] was one whose talent and dedication to her art should carry her very far in the theater, whether on screen or stage, Olive Deering, who played Miriam, the Danite girl who loved Samson to the end of his life and beyond." In "The Ten Commandments", she played Moses' sister, Miriam.

Was one of the promising newcomers listed in Photoplay's 1950 "Choose Your Star" contest. She was described as "serene and lovely" and "beautiful in a quiet way".

She was a lifelong liberal Democrat.