page_title: Olive Deering
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Olive Deering / Career / Film
caption_attribution_description: English: L. to R.&#160;: Olive Deering, Edward G. Robinson &amp; Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments - trailer (cropped screenshot)
context_page_description: Olive Deering was an American actress of film, television, and the stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.
context_section_description: The films she appeared in included Shock Treatment and Caged. In 1948, director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Miriam, the Danite girl who loves Samson, in his film Samson and Delilah. In his autobiography, DeMille wrote that Deering was "one whose talent and dedication to her art should carry her very far in the theater, whether on screen or stage." DeMille cast her again, this time in the role of the real biblical Miriam, the sister of Moses, in The Ten Commandments (1956).
caption: as Miriam, with Edward G. Robinson and Charlton Heston, in The Ten Commandments (1956)
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