Kathryn Adams

Kathryn Adams

Born: May 24, 1893
Died: February 17, 1959
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for Kathryn Adams...

Pampered Youth
Title: Pampered Youth
Character: Fanny Minafer
Released: February 1, 1925
Type: Movie
An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."
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Borrowed Husbands
Title: Borrowed Husbands
Character: Edith Langwell
Released: April 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
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The Man from Downing Street
Title: The Man from Downing Street
Character: Norma Graves
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.
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The Silver Car
Title: The Silver Car
Character: Daphne Grenvil
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his life, and discovers his true identity is Arthur Grenvil, the son of the Earl of Rosecarrel. Trent falls in love with Grenvil's sister, Daphne, and sets out to win the Earl's approval. He discovers that the Earl is being blackmailed by Count Michael Temesvar, the prime minister of Croatia, over some documents.
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The Best of Luck
Title: The Best of Luck
Character: Leslie MacLeod
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affairs with Lord Glenayr (Jack Holt), whom she has never met. She encounters Duke Lanzana (Fred Malatesta), who sees her as a way to pay off his mounting debts. He captures her and then heads to a nearby cape to steal a buried treasure that actually should belong to the MacLeods.
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The Forbidden Woman
Title: The Forbidden Woman
Character: Madame de Clermont
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
A beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A scandal erupts, threatening to destroy her reputation.
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A Little Brother of the Rich
Title: A Little Brother of the Rich
Released: July 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Joseph Medill Patterson.
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A Rogue's Romance
Title: A Rogue's Romance
Character: Mme. Helen Deprenay (as Katherine Adams)
Released: June 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, is also a master thief who baffles the Parisian police. One night, while Picard watches an Apache dance, he learns that one of his three adopted children is seriously ill. When his car breaks down, Picard politely forces Helen Deprenay to loan him her auto, and leaves his cross as security. The next day, the police pursue Picard to the Deprenay home where the prefect warns Helen about Picard. Helen writes to the entreating Picard, and refuses to see him until he proves himself of worth to society. Disguised as Scotland Yard agent Armand DuBois, Picard is present at the Deprenay home when a necklace is stolen. After Helen covers for him, Picard catches the thief in an attempt to swindle the entire community in a stock market scheme. He informs the police that Picard no longer exists, and escapes with Helen to a new life.
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The Silver Girl
Title: The Silver Girl
Character: Anne Kepple (as Catherine Adams)
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it from her. Hunter helps her get it back, and out of gratitude Anne marries him, even though she is half his age.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Masked rider / Millie
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Lassiter quits the Texas Rangers and spends his life in pursuit of a group of Mormons who kidnapped his married sister. In a town on the Utah border, he meets the Withersteens and falls in love with their daughter, Jane. He also befriends Venters, and helps him track down some bandits who have been rustling the Withersteens' cattle.
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True Blue
Title: True Blue
Character: Ruth Merritt
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst to the daughter of a Western rancher. When he learns that he has inherited his father's title and estate, Brockhurst deserts his wife and young son Bob. Upon attaining adulthood, Bob becomes the boss of his grandfather's ranch.
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Title: Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Character: Gwendolyn - Lord Amersteth's Ward
Released: December 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives.
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Baby Mine
Title: Baby Mine
Character: Aggie
Released: September 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come crawling back, Kennedy pretends to have given birth to a baby. Complications ensue when Morgan returns home, demanding to see his new kid.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Character: Olivia Primrose
Released: February 24, 1917
Type: Movie
The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.
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Divorce and the Daughter
Title: Divorce and the Daughter
Released: December 3, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Shine Girl
Title: The Shine Girl
Character: Margaret Kenyon
Released: August 26, 1916
Type: Movie
An optimistic girl survives city life as a shoe shine till she ends up in children's court. Just as she helps her geranium, Sally, to grow, a kindly judge sees her potential and takes her to his mother's country home to flourish.
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The Long Arm of the Secret Service
Title: The Long Arm of the Secret Service
Character: Miriam Starr
Released: October 16, 1915
Type: Movie
The Long Arm of the Secret Service
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The Pursuing Shadow
Title: The Pursuing Shadow
Character: Olga
Released: July 15, 1915
Type: Movie
At a dance given by Earl Dexter, his wife, for the gratification of a whim, wears a beautiful pearl necklace recently purchased by Viscount Acheson. Craig Dare, who is a gentleman thief, makes love to Earl Dexter's wife, and at the same time succeeds in stealing from her the pearl necklace and handing it out of the window of the house to Tony Oscaros, a chauffeur, who is none other than Dexter, who is leading a dual life.