Katharine Alexander
Рождение : 1898-09-22, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
Смерть : 1981-01-10
История
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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
Фильм - история семьи подростка Гомера Маколея (Микки Руни), старшеклассника, работающего неполный рабочий день подручным телеграфиста, что бы поддержать семью в вымышленном городе Итака, штат Калифорния, во время Второй мировой войны и его старшего брата, ушедшего на войну...
Miss Trask
Шарлота Вэйл — поздний ребенок в семье, и как все поздние дети несет постоянную печать чрезмерной опеки; мать — Миссис Генри Уиндл Вэйл держала ее постоянно под контролем с детских лет. Прошли годы и этот контроль превратил Шарлоту в отрешенную и испуганную женщину, единственное, что приносило ей успокоение — резьба по кости.
Супруга одного из братьев Шарлоты — Лиза пригласила в дом своей свекрови психиатра, который, посмотрев на затворницу, поставил ей диагноз: «нервный срыв» и предложил ей посетить свой санаторий отдохнуть и подлечить нервы. Несколько недель проведенные в санатории «Каскад» вернули Шарлоте надежду, а когда ее еще и отправили на теплоходе в круиз к берегам южной Америки, она обрела уверенность и впервые за многие годы бывшая покорная дочь смогла заявить матери, что имеет право на личную жизнь.
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 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 eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Ernestine Pringle
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.
Madame de Lys
Звонарь Собора Парижской Богоматери Квазимодо, его опекун и верховный судья Жеан Фролло, поэт Пьер Гренгуар и капитан королевской гвардии Феб де Шатопер влюбляются в цыганку Эсмеральду, но не предполагают, что тем самым обрекают её на верную смерть.
Abigail Pardway
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Laura
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.
Harriet Ingalls
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.
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
Бизнес-леди Маргит Агню живет строго по плану. Она планирует все в жизни – от свадьбы и свадебного путешествия своей младшей сестры с хорошим, но уж очень нерешительным парнем – до того, что подадут на завтрак. И все было бы хорошо, но появился в их жизни взбалмошный Чарли Лодж, который намеревается снять фильм с будущими молодоженами, пишет портрет Маргит, и вообще, в скором времени расстраивает все ее планы. Ни к кому в жизни Маргит не испытывала такой ненависти, как к этому бродяге Чарли…
Cast of Stage Play
История взлетов и падений группы молодых амбициозных актрис.
Mme Lloyd Rogers
Мэри работает секретарем успешного адвоката. Ее шеф проявляет не только доброе расположение к подчиненной, но буквально берет ее судьбу в свои руки и помогает Мэри выйти замуж за Джека, которого она давно любит. Но его отец разрушает брак. Спустя несколько лет Мэри и Джек снова встретятся: он — человек с изломанной судьбой, она — счастливая мать их сына…
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
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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
Король Франции Людовик XIII, находящийся под влиянием своего министра - кардинала Ришелье, готовит указ, ущемляющий права крупных феодалов. Недовольные таким положением вещей и растущей властью кардинала, королева-мать, королева Анна Австрийская и граф Барада пытаются, в отсутствие своего главного врага, убедить короля подписать указ об отставке Ришелье. Им почти удается достичь своей цели, но неожиданное возвращение кардинала спутывает им планы. В результате свершившихся событий в стране зреет заговор. Опирающие на поддержку англичан и испанцев, заговорщики, при участии королевы-матери, стремятся свергнуть короля Людовика XIII и посадить на трон его слабовольного брата Гастона. Кардинал Ришелье плетет интриги, пытаясь разрушить планы врагов короля и укрепить могущество Франции. Между тем воспитанница кардинала, юная красавица Ленора, недавно покинувшая стены монастыря, и Андре де Понс, один из заговорщиков, влюбляются друг в друга...
Julia Patterson
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Arabel Barrett
В большой семье Барретов, проживающей на Уимпол-стрит в Лондоне, главный - отец. Он не позволяет никому из своих детей даже думать о браке. Особенно он печется о своей старшей дочери - известной поэтессе Элизабет, прикованной к инвалидному креслу. Но находится смельчак по имени Роберт Браунинг, которого не смущает болезнь девушки, и он предлагает ей руку и сердце. Отец пытается сделать все, чтобы брак не состоялся.
Pauline
Шпионка на службе у северян, Гэйл Лавлэсс, влюбляется в офицера армии Конфедерации. Сможет ли их любовь преодолеть разногласия целой страны, охваченной Гражданской войной, или же им не суждено быть вместе?
Alda
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 him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
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.