Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Birthday: 1898-09-20

Place of Birth: Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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Excuse the Pardon
Excuse the Pardon

A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake....

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Taxi Talks
Taxi Talks

Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southe...

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Double Wedding
Double Wedding

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut...

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Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man...

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Death Takes a Holiday
Death Takes a Holiday

After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the...

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her...

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The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family ...

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That Certain Woman
That Certain Woman

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval....

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Should Ladies Behave
Should Ladies Behave

A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daugh...

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Operator 13
Operator 13

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of...

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The Hard Guy
The Hard Guy

Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Jobs are ve...

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Broadway Serenade
Broadway Serenade

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi...

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Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne of Windy Poplars

Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vi...

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Sis Hopkins
Sis Hopkins

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical....

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Ginger
Ginger

Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian ...

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The Girl from 10th Avenue
The Girl from 10th Avenue

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds ...

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Enchanted April
Enchanted April

Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to p...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...

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Moonlight Murder
Moonlight Murder

An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer...

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Kiss and Tell
Kiss and Tell

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-ye...

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Sutter's Gold
Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....

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Angels with Broken Wings
Angels with Broken Wings

Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is abou...

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The Great Man Votes
The Great Man Votes

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...

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For the Love of Mary
For the Love of Mary

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics....

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The Devil Is a Sissy
The Devil Is a Sissy

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...

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Splendor
Splendor

When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointm...

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Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle....

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John Loves Mary
John Loves Mary

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence w...

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Play Girl
Play Girl

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her ...

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The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat....

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In Name Only
In Name Only

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive...

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Alias Mary Dow
Alias Mary Dow

A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before....

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Small Town Deb
Small Town Deb

Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbis...

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Three Sons
Three Sons

A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business....

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After Office Hours
After Office Hours

A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder....

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She Married Her Boss
She Married Her Boss

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that...

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The Girl from Scotland Yard
The Girl from Scotland Yard

A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions....

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Rascals
Rascals

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Dance, Girl, Dance
Dance, Girl, Dance

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man...

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Breakdowns of 1938
Breakdowns of 1938

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....

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On the Sunny Side
On the Sunny Side

Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in...

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The Vanishing Virginian
The Vanishing Virginian

The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does h...

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As Good as Married
As Good as Married

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax...

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Stage Door
Stage Door

The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls fr...

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