Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Born: September 20, 1898
Died: January 10, 1981
in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
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Katharine Alexander (September 22, 1898 – January 10, 1981) was an American actress of stage and screen. She appeared in 44 films between 1930 and 1951.

She was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas and died in Tryon, North Carolina. She was one eighth Cherokee Indian. She planned to be a concert artist, and it was while she was giving a violin recital that she was seen by Samuel Goldwyn who gave her a chance on stage from where she rose to be one of Broadway's leading ladies. She was married to William A. Brady Jr, (1900-1935), the son of William A. Brady a theatre actor, producer and sports promotor and actress Grace George. They had a daughter, Barbara Brady.

She starred alongside Paul Muni as his wife Linda Loman in London's Phoenix Theatre production of Death of a Salesman, which opened on July 28, 1949, directed by Elia Kazan.

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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John Loves Mary
Title: John Loves Mary
Character: Phyllis McKinley
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
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For the Love of Mary
Title: For the Love of Mary
Character: Miss Harkness
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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Kiss and Tell
Title: Kiss and Tell
Character: Janet Archer
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
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The Human Comedy
Title: The Human Comedy
Character: Mrs. Steed
Released: March 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Now, Voyager
Title: Now, Voyager
Character: Miss Trask
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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On the Sunny Side
Title: On the Sunny Side
Character: Mrs. Mary Andrews
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy when his school-friends do the same. But his isn't so happy when things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
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The Vanishing Virginian
Title: The Vanishing Virginian
Character: Marcia Marshall
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
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Small Town Deb
Title: Small Town Deb
Character: Mrs. Randall
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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Angels with Broken Wings
Title: Angels with Broken Wings
Character: Charlotte Lord
Released: May 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
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Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Clara Hopkins
Released: April 12, 1941
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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Play Girl
Title: Play Girl
Character: Mrs. Dice
Released: January 29, 1941
Type: Movie
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Miss Olmstead
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Anne of Windy Poplars
Title: Anne of Windy Poplars
Character: Ernestine Pringle
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Madame de Lys
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Three Sons
Title: Three Sons
Character: Abigail Pardway
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
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In Name Only
Title: In Name Only
Character: Laura
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Harriet Ingalls
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: Miss Billow
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Mrs. Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Rascals
Title: Rascals
Character: Mrs. Agatha Adams
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Claire Lodge
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Stage Door
Title: Stage Door
Character: Cast of Stage Play
Released: October 7, 1937
Type: Movie
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
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That Certain Woman
Title: That Certain Woman
Character: Mme Lloyd Rogers
Released: August 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
Title: The Girl from Scotland Yard
Character: Helen Lavering
Released: May 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
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As Good as Married
Title: As Good as Married
Character: Alma Burnside
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
Title: The Devil Is a Sissy
Character: Hilda Pierce
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Moonlight Murder
Title: Moonlight Murder
Character: Louisa
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Anna Sutter
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Splendor
Title: Splendor
Character: Martha Lorrimore
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and the loss of their mansion and social position, they had hoped that Brighton would marry wealthy heiress and family friend, Edith Gilbert.
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She Married Her Boss
Title: She Married Her Boss
Character: Gertrude Barclay
Released: September 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
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Ginger
Title: Ginger
Character: Mrs. Elizabeth Parker
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
Title: The Girl from 10th Avenue
Character: Valentine French Marland
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
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Alias Mary Dow
Title: Alias Mary Dow
Character: Evelyn Dow
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Title: Cardinal Richelieu
Character: Queen Anne
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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After Office Hours
Title: After Office Hours
Character: Julia Patterson
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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Enchanted April
Title: Enchanted April
Character: Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women. Here the four women plan to spend the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
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The Painted Veil
Title: The Painted Veil
Character: Mrs. Townsend
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Title: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Character: Arabel Barrett
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
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Operator 13
Title: Operator 13
Character: Pauline
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
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Death Takes a Holiday
Title: Death Takes a Holiday
Character: Alda
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
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Should Ladies Behave
Title: Should Ladies Behave
Character: Mrs. Winifred Lamont
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
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Excuse the Pardon
Title: Excuse the Pardon
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
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The Hard Guy
Title: The Hard Guy
Character: Ellen
Released: September 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Job are very hard to come by during the Great Depression and many are driven to desperate measures.
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Taxi Talks
Title: Taxi Talks
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to be taken to the precinct house.