Katharine Alexander
Date of birth: 1898-09-20
Place of birth: Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Katherine Alexander
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
1930-10-10
A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
Taxi Talks
1930-06-06
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southe
Double Wedding
1937-10-15
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-08-31
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut
Now, Voyager
1942-10-22
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man
Death Takes a Holiday
1934-03-30
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934-09-21
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her
The Human Comedy
1943-03-02
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family
That Certain Woman
1937-08-30
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Should Ladies Behave
1933-12-01
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daugh
Operator 13
1934-06-08
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of
The Hard Guy
1930-09-06
Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Jobs are ve
Broadway Serenade
1939-04-07
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi
Anne of Windy Poplars
1940-06-28
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vi
Sis Hopkins
1941-04-12
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Ginger
1935-07-04
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian
The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935-06-01
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds
Enchanted April
1935-02-01
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to p
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war
Moonlight Murder
1936-03-27
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer
Kiss and Tell
1945-10-04
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-ye
Sutter's Gold
1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Angels with Broken Wings
1941-05-27
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is abou
The Great Man Votes
1939-01-13
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to
For the Love of Mary
1948-09-01
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel
Splendor
1935-11-22
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointm
Cardinal Richelieu
1935-04-18
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
John Loves Mary
1949-02-04
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence w
Play Girl
1941-01-29
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her
The Painted Veil
1934-11-23
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
In Name Only
1939-08-18
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive
Alias Mary Dow
1935-05-01
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Small Town Deb
1941-11-07
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbis
Three Sons
1939-10-13
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
After Office Hours
1935-02-22
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
She Married Her Boss
1935-09-19
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that
The Girl from Scotland Yard
1937-05-30
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
Rascals
1938-05-20
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a soc
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940-08-30
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash man
Breakdowns of 1938
1938-12-31
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
On the Sunny Side
1942-02-13
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in
The Vanishing Virginian
1942-02-01
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does h
As Good as Married
1937-05-09
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax
Stage Door
1937-10-08
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls fr