Katharine Alexander
Nacimiento : 1898-09-22, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
Muerte : 1981-01-10
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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.
Herself (archive footage)
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.
Phyllis McKinley
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.
Miss Harkness
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Janet Archer
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.
Mrs. Steed
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Cuando su hermano mayor se va a la guerra, el entrañable Homer Macauley se queda al cuidado de su madre y de su hermano pequeño. El chico trabaja en la oficina de telégrafos del pueblo y, de cuando en cuando, la familia recibe noticias de la guerra.
Miss Trask
Charlotte Vale, una mujer de mediana edad que pertenece a una familia acomodada de Boston, vive reprimida y totalmente controlada por su dominante e insensible madre. Gracias a la ayuda de un amable psiquiatra, Charlotte consigue recuperar la autoestima y superar sus miedos. Además, se vuelve mucho más extrovertida y empieza a sentirse incluso atractiva. Dispuesta a disfrutar de su nueva vida, hace un crucero por América del Sur y en el barco conocerá a un apuesto arquitecto infelizmente casado.
Mrs. Mary Andrews
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 things begin to change when his father fore-goes their evening game of Chinese Checkers to play chess with Hugh, and Hugh shows himself to be a formidable scholar, and impresses Don's girlfriend Betty, and becomes more popular with the boys than Don was...and Don is beginning to think that Hugh is too much of a good thing. Don gets downright depressed and decides to run away. Uh, oh, here comes Hugh.
Marcia Marshall
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
Mrs. Randall
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
Charlotte Lord
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-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Clara Hopkins
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Mrs. Dice
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
Miss Olmstead
Judy O'Brien forma parte de un grupo de baile y aspira a dedicarse al ballet clásico. Bubbles, compañera suya deja el grupo para centrarse en la comedia. Cuando el grupo se deshace, Bubbles le ofrece a Judy un ingrato trabajo: ser la telonera de su espectáculo.
Ernestine Pringle
Anne Shirley ha crecido y se convertido en una maestra de buen corazón, atrás deja Prince Edward Island (Canadá) y una infancia maravillosa para comenzar en Pringleton un nuevo capítulo lejos de su granja de “Tejas Verdes”. Ahora se enfrenta a un nuevo reto en la vida, hacerse cargo de la subdirección de la escuela local de Pringleton, pero pronto se da cuenta de que toda la ciudad está dominada por la tiránica familia Pringle, ellos tenían otros planes para cubrir el puesto en el Summerside High School.
Madame de Lys
París, Francia, 1482. El juez Frollo, al servicio del benévolo rey Luis XI, se enamora de Esmeralda, una joven gitana. El jorobado Quasimodo, protegido de Frollo y campanero de Notre Dame, vive en paz entre las campanas, en las alturas de la inmensa catedral, hasta que el retorcido magistrado lo involucra en sus maliciosos planes, desesperado por liberarse del supuesto hechizo de Esmeralda, que él cree que es obra del diablo.
Abigail Pardway
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Laura
Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), una joven viuda que tiene una hija, trabaja como dibujante publicitaria. Un día, conoce al rico y apuesto Alec Walker (Cary Grant), que está unido a la pérfida Maida (Kay Francis) por un matrimonio de conveniencia que lo hace muy desgraciado. La felicidad de Alec depende de conseguir el divorcio y casarse con Julie.
Harriet Ingalls
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Miss Billow
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 discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
Mrs. Agatha Adams
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite (Hundson) who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Mrs. Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Claire Lodge
Un escritor acepta realizar una obra para una actriz con el objetivo de enamorar a la hermana de ésta.
Cast of Stage Play
Un grupo de chicas, unidas por el mismo deseo de triunfar en el teatro, conviven en una residencia regentada por antiguas actrices, las cuales muestran su entusiasmo y envidia al mismo tiempo ante el futuro que espera a sus pupilas. Algunas logran alcanzar el éxito, pero otras no tendrán más remedio que olvidar sus sueños y volver al pueblo del que partieron un día.
Mme Lloyd Rogers
Mary Donnell es una joven viuda que trabaja como secretaria del abogado Lloyd Rogers, un hombre casado pero secretamente enamorado de ella. Cuando Jack Merrick, hijo de uno de los clientes más importantes de Rogers, regresa de Europa, le declara su amor a Mary, que acepta huir con él y casarse esa misma noche.
Helen Lavering
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
Alma Burnside
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
Hilda Pierce
Claude Pierce, un niño inglés muy educado que vive en el sur de Manhattan, intenta ganarse la aceptación ante sus compañeros no tan bien educados, en la escuela.
Louisa
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Anna Sutter
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Martha Lorrimore
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 family friend, Edith Gilbert.
Gertrude Barclay
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.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parker
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. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
Valentine French Marland
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 become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
Evelyn Dow
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Queen Anne
Versión cinematográfica de la obra de Lord Edward George Bulwer-Lytton sobre el conspirador cardenal Richelieu, al servicio del rey de Francia y siempre dispuesto a sacar adelante sus proyectos sin importarle las consecuencias. Sus manipulaciones tienen lugar en la corte, y lo mismo busca obstáculos para el amor entre dos jóvenes que lucha denonadamente contra el hermano del monarca.
Julia Patterson
El editor Jim Branch se enamora de una mujer de la alta sociedad, Sharon Norwood. La utilizará para conseguir información de sus allegados ricos y famosos, con el objetivo de resolver un asesinato.
Mrs. Rose Arbuthnot
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 the month of April away from the cares of home, husbands and the everyday monotony.
Mrs. Townsend
Katrin es una atractiva mujer que realiza un viaje por China mientras atraviesa una etapa de soledad. Decide casarse con el doctor Walter Fane, pero éste, debido a su profesión, no puede dedicarle mucho tiempo a su esposa, y ella comienza un romance secreto con un amante.
Arabel Barrett
Edward Moulton-Barrett, un terrateniente muy fanático en materia religiosa, mantiene casi recluidas en casa a sus tres hijas, a las que, además, ha prohibido contraer matrimonio. Elizabeth, la mediana, una prometedora poetisa enferma de tuberculosis, y el poeta Robert Browning (March), con el que hace tiempo mantiene una correspondencia epistolar, se conocen y se enamoran, pero tendrán que vencer la tiranía del padre.
Pauline
Guerra de Secesión, 1862. Tras el desastre de la Segunda Batalla de Bull Run, el comandante Allen, jefe del Servicio Secreto de la Unión, pide a la actriz Gail Loveless que se convierta en uno de sus espías y se infiltre en territorio enemigo.
Alda
La muerte decide tomarse unos días de vacaciones y convivir con un grupo de personas para ver lo que se siente siendo un ser mortal y comprender por qué la gente le teme tanto.
Mrs. Winifred Lamont
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter. Director Harry Beaumont's pre-code comedy stars Lionel Barrymore, Alice Brady, Godfrey Tearle, Mary Carlisle, William Janney, Katharine Alexander and Halliwell Hobbes.
A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
Ellen
Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Job are very hard to come by during the Great Depression and many are driven to desperate measures.
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to be taken to the precinct house.
