Catherine Dale Owen

Catherine Dale Owen

Born: July 25, 1900
Died: September 7, 1965
in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
From Wikipedia

Catherine Dale Owen was an American stage and film actress. Dale was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a prominent Kentucky family. She attended private school in Philadelphia and Bronxville, New York before attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

First discovered by Laura MacGillivray, the wife of Actors Equity president Frank Gillmore, Owen appeared on Broadway in the 1920s through early 1930s in productions including The Mountain Man, The Whole Town's Talking, Trelawny of the Wells, The Love City and The Play's the Thing. In 1925, Owen was acclaimed as one of the ten most beautiful women in the world. Owen made her film debut as Princess Orsolini opposite John Gilbert's Captain Kovacs in the 1929 film His Glorious Night. It was to Owen that Gilbert spoke the lines, "Oh beauteous maiden, my arms are waiting to enfold you. I love you. I love you. I love you." The scene, which proved disastrous for Gilbert's career, was later parodied in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain. In 1930, Owen starred in Lawrence Tibbett's film debut, The Rogue Song and also with Edmund Lowe in Born Reckless. Owen appeared in her final film, Defenders of the Law in 1931. She retired from acting in 1935.

Movies for Catherine Dale Owen...

Defenders of the Law
Title: Defenders of the Law
Character: Alice Randall
Released: May 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
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Behind Office Doors
Title: Behind Office Doors
Character: Ellen May Robinson
Released: March 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
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Today
Title: Today
Character: Eve Warner
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Joan Sheldon
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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Strictly Unconventional
Title: Strictly Unconventional
Character: Elizabeth
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.
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Such Men Are Dangerous
Title: Such Men Are Dangerous
Character: Elinor Kranz
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
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The Rogue Song
Title: The Rogue Song
Character: Princess Vera
Released: January 17, 1930
Type: Movie
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
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His Glorious Night
Title: His Glorious Night
Character: Princess Orsolini
Released: September 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting. Her mother Eugenie (Nance O'Neil), who has found out about the affair forces her to dump Kovacs and take part in the arranged marriage. Though not believing her own words, Orsolini reluctantly tells Kovacs she cannot ever fall in love with a man with his social position. Feeling deeply hurt, Kovacs decides to take revenge by indulging in blackmail, spreading a rumor that he is an imposter and a swindler.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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The Forbidden Woman
Title: The Forbidden Woman
Released: October 28, 1927
Type: Movie
A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to be drafted into the colonel's own corps. Unknown to either is the fact that the colonel's wife is actually an Arab spy.