Biography

Lyn Wilde was born on October 10, 1922 in East St. Louis, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944), Twice Blessed (1945) and Campus Honeymoon (1948). She was married to Dwight Oberlink and James Edward Cathcart. She died on September 11, 2016 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA.

Lyn and Lee married brothers James and Thomas Cathcart (respectively).

Both she and her sister started out as vocalists with the Bob Crosby Orchestra.

One of three cast members to appear in both the Jerome Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) and the film version of the Kern musical Show Boat (1951) (the others were Kathryn Grayson and Gower Champion).

Twin sister of Lee Wilde.

Lyn has two children Carter and Lee Ann. She has four grandchildren, one great-granddaughter, three step-children, seven step-grandchildren and nine step-great-grand-children.

[on Allan Lane, with whom she worked in Sheriff of Wichita (1949)] Allan Lane was so handsome, but he was so full of himself. He had nothing at all to do with me, like I was a total nobody. He was the so-called star and he knew it. He never got anything dirty or messed up. He always looked perfect. What a character!