Kathryn Marlowe

Birth : 1914-05-25, Corydon, Iowa, USA

Death : 2010-01-02

History

From Wikipedia Kathryn Marlowe (May 25, 1914 – January 2, 2010), born Kathryn Isabelle Rea, was an American film actress in the 1930s, most notably in Dodsworth. Other films included Bridal Grief, Artists and Models and China Passage. Before making films she worked in Chicago and New York City hotels, musical stage, and radio. She got the lead role in a new musical revue, Two for the Show, in which she introduced a song, "How High the Moon", written to showcase her vocal style. It became a pop standard. After she left New York, she relocated to California, originally invited to be Fred Astaire's dance partner in movies. She was signed with Samuel Goldwyn and appeared in films with several studios under different names, such as Kay Marlowe, Katharine Marlowe, Kay Kimber, Kay Rea, Kea Rea, Kay Rhea, and Kathryn Marlow, before landing on Kathryn Marlowe. After leaving Hollywood, she had leads in several stage musicals in NYC and London, and roles in television dramas. She pioneered a daily women's TV program in Ottumwa, Iowa in the early 1950s. Marlowe died at the age of 96 in Tampa, Florida after a long period of ill health.

Movies

Ride 'Em Cowboy
Dancer (uncredited)
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Girls of the Road
Road Girl (Uncredited)
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
2nd Debutante
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Youth Takes a Fling
Switchboard Operator
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Dodsworth
Emily Dodsworth McKee
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.