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person_profile-Kay Aldridge

Kay Aldridge Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Kay Aldridge

Date of Birth:

Jul 09, 1917

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 12, 1995

Biography of

Kay Aldridge

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Katharine Gratten Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American actress and model, best known for playing feisty and imperiled heroines in black-and-white serials during the 1940s. A notable role was as Nyoka Gordon in Perils of Nyoka.

    Aldridge was born on July 9, 1917 in Tallahassee, Florida. Her father was a surveyor and her mother was an artist and writer. After attending her first year of high school in Westminster, Maryland, she enrolled in St. Mary's Female Seminary (now St. Mary's College of Maryland) in St. Mary's City, Maryland. While at St. Mary's, she acted in plays, played basketball, and was a member of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority.

    Following her high school graduation in 1934, Aldridge found work with the John Powers modeling agency in New York. She appeared on the covers of magazines such as Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, and Look. In 1937, Aldridge was chosen as one of the ten most photographed girls in the world, and was selected to go to Hollywood to appear in the United Artists film Vogues of 1938.

    In 1939 she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and in the next few years landed a number of minor and largely decorative roles, credited as Katherine Aldridge. The films she made during this period include Shooting High (1940) playing Evelyn Trent, Sailor's Lady (1940) playing Georgine, Down Argentine Way (1940) playing Helen Carson, and Dead Men Tell (1941) playing Laura Thursday. She was among the actresses screen tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.

    After her contract with 20th Century Fox expired in 1941, she was approach by Republic Pictures to star in an upcoming film serial. Although she considered serial work a "comedown" from being a featured player at Fox, she accepted the offer because it offered her a lead role and a salary of about $650 a week, good money at the time. Her first serial for Republic was Perils of Nyoka (1942), which offered dramatic cliffhanger scenes at the end of each episode. She retired from acting in 1945.

    Aldridge was married three times: to Arthur Cameron from 1945 to 1954, to Richard Derby Tucker from 1956 until his death in 1979, and lastly to Harry Nasland until his death in 1988. In her later years she lived in Camden, Maine, and was a locally renowned hostess.

    Aldridge died of a heart attack on January 12, 1995 in Rockport, Maine. She is interred at Sea View Cemetery in Rockport, Maine.

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Kay Aldridge

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Filmography of

Kay Aldridge

Found 21 Movies in total

The Phantom of 42nd Street

Claudia Moore ( Actor )

... 1945

The Man Who Walked Alone

Wilhelmina Hammond ( Actor )

... 1945

Haunted Harbor

Patricia Harding ( Actor )

... 1944

Du Barry Was a Lady

Mrs. McGowan ( Actor )

... 1943

Daredevils of the West

June Foster ( Actor )

... 1943

Something to Shout About

Show Girl ( Actor )

... 1943

Perils of Nyoka

Nyoka Gordon ( Actor )

... 1942

Louisiana Purchase

Louisiana Belle ( Actor )

... 1941

You're in the Army Now

Navy Blues Sextette Member ( Actor )

... 1941

Navy Blues

Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Katharine Aldridge) ( Actor )

... 1941

Dead Men Tell

(as Katharine Aldridge) Laura Parks aka Laura Thursday ( Actor )

... 1941

Golden Hoofs

Cornelia Hunt ( Actor )

... 1941

Down Argentine Way

Helen Carson ( Actor )

... 1940

... 1940

Sailor's Lady

Georgine (as Katharine Aldridge) ( Actor )

... 1940

Girl in 313

Sarah Sorrell (as Katherine Aldridge) ( Actor )

... 1940

Shooting High

Evelyn Trent ( Actor )

... 1940

Free, Blonde and 21

Adelaide Sinclair (as Katherine Aldridge) ( Actor )

... 1940

Here I Am a Stranger

Lillian Bennett ( Actor )

... 1939

Rosalie

Lady in Waiting (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Vogues of 1938

Katherine - a Model ( Actor )

... 1937