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Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander

Katharine Alexander (September 22, 1898 – January 10, 1981) what is 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 promoter 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 (1983)

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 (1949)

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 (1948)

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 (1945)

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 (1943)

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 (1942)

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 (1942)

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 thi ...

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The Vanishing Virginian (1942)

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 (1941)

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

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Angels with Broken Wings (1941)

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 ...

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Sis Hopkins (1941)

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

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Play Girl (1941)

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 (1940)

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 eventu ...

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Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

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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Three Sons (1939)

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

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

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 ...

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In Name Only (1939)

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 (1939)

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 (1939)

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 discov ...

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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)

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

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Rascals (1938)

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 (1937)

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 (1937)

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments. ...

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That Certain Woman (1937)

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

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The Girl from Scotland Yard (1937)

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

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As Good as Married (1937)

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 (1936)

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 (1936)

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

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Sutter's Gold (1936)

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

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Splendor (1935)

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 ...

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She Married Her Boss (1935)

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 (1935)

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. Bu ...

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The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)

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 becom ...

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Alias Mary Dow (1935)

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 (1935)

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

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After Office Hours (1935)

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

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Enchanted April (1935)

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 ...

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The Painted Veil (1934)

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

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

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 Ro ...

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Operator 13 (1934)

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 (1934)

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 hi ...

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Should Ladies Behave (1933)

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

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