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person_profile-Kathlyn Williams

Kathlyn Williams Died at age: 81

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Kathlyn Williams

Date of Birth:

May 30, 1879

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Sep 23, 1960

Biography of

Kathlyn Williams

    Kathlyn Williams was born Kathleen Mabel Williams on May 31, 1879 in Butte, Montana, and the only child born to Joseph Edwin "Frank" Williams, a boarding house proprietor, and Mary C. Boe (1846–1908) of Welsh and Norwegian descent. Many biographies state her birth year as 1888; however, she is listed on the 1880 United States Census as being a year old. Williams displayed an early interest in becoming an actress in her youth which lead her to become a member of a community thespian group. She also joined the Woman's Relief Corps that allowed her to showcase her vocal prowess at local recitals.

    Williams began her career with Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago, Illinois and made her first film in 1908 under the direction of Francis Boggs. By 1910, she was transferred to the company's Los Angeles film studio. Williams played "Cherry Malotte" in the first movie based upon Rex Beach's 1906 novel The Spoilers in 1914, a role portrayed in subsequent versions by Betty Compson (1930), Marlene Dietrich (1942), and Anne Baxter (1955). In 1916, she starred in the thirteen episode adventure film serial, The Adventures of Kathlyn. She was busy throughout the silent film era but age and the advent of talkies saw her make only five sound films, the last in 1935. Kathlyn evolved from a comedian and serial player in silents to portraying character roles in the early 1930s.

    Williams was married three times. Although many biographies erroneously cite her first husband as being Victor Kainer, he was in fact named Otto H. "Harry" Kainer (1876–1952), who ran an import and export business on Wall Street in New York City. They were wed on October 2, 1903, and their son, Victor Hugo, was born in 1905. They supposedly divorced over Kainer's disapproval of his wife having an acting career, and Williams subsequently obtained a divorce from Kainer in 1909 in Nevada. On March 4, 1913, she married Frank R. Allen, also an actor, but the marriage was a failure from the start and lasted a little over a year. On June 30, 1914, she filed for divorce in Los Angeles and listed desertion as the reason as the failure of their marriage. She later married Paramount Pictures executive Charles Eyton on June 2, 1916, in Riverside, California. The Eytons eventually divorced in 1931.

    On December 29, 1949, Williams was involved in a deadly automobile accident, which claimed the life of her friend, Mrs. Mary E. Rose, while they were returning home from a social engagement in Las Vegas. As a result of the accident, Williams lost her right leg. On April 8, 1950, Williams sued the estate of Rose for $136,615, citing negligence and claiming that the automobile had inefficient brakes. In June 1951, Williams accepted the offer of $6,500 dollars from the Rose estate. Kathlyn Williams died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California in 1960.

    For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Kathlyn Williams has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7038 Hollywood Blvd.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Photos of

Kathlyn Williams

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Filmography of

Kathlyn Williams

Found 42 Movies in total

Rendezvous at Midnight

Mrs. Arthur Dewey ( Actor )

... 1935

Blood Money

Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Unholy Love

Mrs. Bradford ( Actor )

... 1932

Daddy Long Legs

Mrs. Paula Pendleton ( Actor )

... 1931

Road to Paradise

Mrs. Wells ( Actor )

... 1930

Wedding Rings

Agatha ( Actor )

... 1929

The Single Standard

Mrs. Glendenning ( Actor )

... 1929

A Single Man

Mrs. Cottrell ( Actor )

... 1929

Our Dancing Daughters

Ann's Mother ( Actor )

... 1928

We Americans

Mrs. Bradleigh ( Actor )

... 1928

Honeymoon Flats

Mrs. Garland ( Actor )

... 1928

Sally in Our Alley

Mrs. Gordon Mansfield ( Actor )

... 1927

The Best People

Mrs. Lenox ( Actor )

... 1925

The Wanderer

Huldah ( Actor )

... 1925

The Enemy Sex

Mrs. Massingale ( Actor )

... 1924

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Magdalene Virey ( Actor )

... 1924

The Spanish Dancer

Queen Isabel of Bourbon ( Actor )

... 1923

Souls for Sale

Herself - Celebrity Actress in Commisary ( Actor )

... 1923

Trimmed in Scarlet

Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur ( Actor )

... 1923

The World's Applause

Elsa Townsend ( Actor )

... 1923

Clarence

Mrs. Wheeler ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1921

Morals

Actor

... 1921

A Private Scandal

Carol Lawton ( Actor )

... 1921

Hush

Isabel Dane ( Actor )

... 1921

Forbidden Fruit

Mrs. Mallory ( Actor )

... 1921

Conrad in Quest of His Youth

Mrs. Adaile ( Actor )

... 1920

The U.P. Trail

"Beauty" Stanton ( Actor )

... 1920

Just a Wife

Eleanor Lathrop ( Actor )

... 1920

Her Kingdom of Dreams

Penelope Warren ( Actor )

... 1919

We Can't Have Everything

Charity Coe Cheever ( Actor )

... 1918

The Whispering Chorus

Jane Tremble ( Actor )

... 1918

The Thing We Love

Margaret Kenwood ( Actor )

... 1918

Big Timber

Stella Benton ( Actor )

... 1917

The Cost of Hatred

Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves ( Actor )

... 1917

Redeeming Love

Naomi Sterling ( Actor )

... 1916

... 1916

Into the Primitive

Jennie Leslie ( Actor )

... 1916

Thou Shalt Not Covet

My Neighbor's Wife ( Actor )

... 1916

The Spoilers

Cherry Malotte ( Actor )

... 1914

The Adventures of Kathlyn

Kathlyn Hare ( Actor )

... 1913