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Kathryn Adams is a Actor American born on 24 may 1893 at St. Louis (USA)
Kathryn Adams (May 25, 1893 – February 17, 1959) was an American silent film actress.
On February 17, 1959, Adams died of a myocardial infarction in her Hollywood home, and is buried at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles.
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Kathryn Adams
Birth name Ethalinda Colson
Nationality USA
Birth 24 may 1893 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 17 february 1959 (at 65 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 24 may 1893 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 17 february 1959 (at 65 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Biography
Born Ethalinda Colson in St. Louis, Missouri, Adams entered films in 1915 after a brief and rather unsuccessful stint in musical comedy. After a number of successful leading roles, she drifted into supporting roles in the 1920s, and, except for a brief appearance in the 1931 version of The Squaw Man, Adams disappeared from films after 1925.On February 17, 1959, Adams died of a myocardial infarction in her Hollywood home, and is buried at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles.
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Saboteur (1942)
, 1h48Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Circus films, Spy films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd, Ian Wolfe
Roles Young Mother
Rating70%
During World War II, aircraft factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is accused of starting a fire at the Stewart Aircraft Works in Glendale, California, an act of sabotage that killed his friend Mason (Virgil Summers). Kane believes the real culprit is a man named Fry (Norman Lloyd) who, during their efforts to put out the fire, handed him a fire extinguisher filled with gasoline, that he passed on to Mason. When the investigators find no one named "Fry" on the list of plant workers, they assume Kane is guilty.
Sky Raiders (1941)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Donald Woods, Billy Halop, Robert Armstrong, Eduardo Ciannelli, Kathryn Adams, Kathryn Adams Doty
Roles Mary Blake, Sky Raiders, Inc.'s secretary
Rating63%
Former World War I ace pilot Captain Bob Dayton, (Donald Woods) is the owner of Sky Raiders, Inc., an aircraft factory. He has designed a new high speed fighter aircraft, the Sky Raider and bombsight. Nazi agent Felix Lynx (Eduardo Ciannelli) attempts to steal these designs for his own country. Dayton recruits young Tim Bryant (Billy Halop), a member of Air Youth of America, to help him. Attempts to steal the fighter prototype fail.
The Invisible Woman (1940)
, 1h12Directed by A. Edward Sutherland, Joe May
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films, Invisibilité
Actors Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, Cedric Hardwicke, Oskar Homolka
Roles Peggy
Rating59%
The wealthy lawyer Dick Russell (John Howard) funds the dotty old inventor Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) to create an invisibility device. The first test subject for this machine is Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce), a department store model who had been fired from her previous job. The machine proves quite successful, and Kitty uses her invisible state to pay back her former sadistic boss, Mr. Growley (Charles Lane).
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
, 1h57Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about religion
Actors Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Davenport
Rating77%
The film opens in 1482 with King Louis XI and his close advisor, Frollo, the King's Chief Justice of Paris, in a printing shop. Frollo is determined to do everything in his power to rid Paris of anything he sees as evil, including the printing press and gypsies, who at the time are persecuted and prohibited from entering Paris. That day is Paris' annual celebration, the Festival of Fools. Esmeralda, a young gypsy girl, is seen dancing in front of an audience of people, including the King and Frollo. Quasimodo, the hunchback and bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, is crowned the Pope of Fools until Frollo catches up to him and takes him back to the church.
The Man from Downing Street (1922)
Directed by Edward José
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Earle Williams, Charles Hill Mailes, Boris Karloff, Betty Ross Clarke, Kathryn Adams, Herbert Prior
Roles Norma Graves
Rating61%
Uncharted Channels (1920)
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors H. B. Warner, Kathryn Adams, Sam De Grasse, Evelyn Selbie, William Elmer, J.P. Lockney
Roles Sylvia Kingston
Timothy Webb est déshérité par son père, qui lui reproche son mode de vie insouciant. En bleu de travail, Tim part travailler dans l'usine que son père a légué à son oncle, et y devient plombier. Il rejoint le syndicat et découvre que Nicholas Schonn, un bolchevik opportuniste qui fait semblant d'être en accord avec les ouvriers, est en train de fomenter une agitation sociale, aidé en cela par la féministe Elsa Smolski. En faisant croire qu'il rejoint leurs rangs, Tim déjoue les plans de Schonn qui voulait escroquer de 50 000 $ l'héritière Sylvia Kingston, et gagne par la même occasion l'amour de Sylvia. Celle-ci lui offre alors le chèque, qui utilise l'argent pour racheter l'usine de son père et, après avoir augmenté tous les employés, prouve son mérite et parvient à rejeter les fauteurs de troubles hors de l'usine.
Big Happiness (1920)
, 1h10Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dustin Farnum, Kathryn Adams, Fred Malatesta, Joseph J. Dowling, Aggie Herring
Roles June Dant
John Dant mène une vie de bohème à Paris lorsque son frère jumeau James, un financier anglais, lui demande de prendre son identité afin qu'il puisse aller secrètement pour affaires en Amérique. John accepte mais il se rend bientôt compte que son frère est un homme cruel qui a imposé le mariage à sa femme June. John tente de rectifier la situation et June tombe amoureuse de lui. Ayant appris que James a disparu lors d'un naufrage, il endosse complètement son identité. Mais, quelques semaines plus tard, James revient, renvoie John et bat sa femme. Mais il a une crise cardiaque et meurt, et ainsi John et June sont réunis.
813 (1920)
Directed by Scott Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Ralph Lewis, Wallace Beery, J.P. Lockney, William V. Mong, Colin Kenny, Kathryn Adams
Roles Dolores Castleback
Rating48%
As summarized in a film publication, Robert Castleback (Lewis) has plans for worldwide power through a mysterious secret that he possesses. Arsene Lupin (Nowell), master thief but loyal Frenchman, knows of the secret and is attempting to obtain state papers held by Castleback. Two other persons in the employ of the Kaiser are attempting the same thing. Castleback is murdered and some suspect Lupin, who announces his intention to catch the real killer. Disguised as the chief of police, he works fearlessly alongside the police. Soon he comes into contact with another master criminal, Ribeira (Beery), who is mascarading as Maj. Parbury, and Lupin suspects that he is complicit in the crime. Lupin falls in love with Dolores Castleback (Adams), widow of the murdered man. When Ribeira, to get rid of Lupin, steals his daughter and informs Lupin that he will have to go alone to a deserted house to get her back, Lupin goes, foils the plot to kill him, and escapes through an underground tunnel that comes out in the home of Delores. As he turns from the mantelpiece where he has discovered the hiding place of the state papers, he sees a mysterious man that he has been trailing. To Lupin's horror he finds that the man is really Delores, who is in reality a German criminal. She kills herself and Lupin escapes.
Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919)
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Mulhall, Pauline Starke, Kathryn Adams, Harvey Clark, Charles K. French, Jean Hersholt
Roles Elsa Clow
Après qu'un jeune inventeur a découvert un nouvel explosif, des agents d'une entreprise chimique allemande le persuadent d'étudier dans une université allemande. Une fois là-bas, certains aspects de la population le repoussent et il part en Belgique.
A Rogue's Romance (1919)
, 50minutesDirected by James Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Earle Williams, Sidney Franklin, Harry von Meter, Rudolph Valentino, Herbert Standing, Kathryn Adams
Roles Mme. Helen Deprenay
As described in a film magazine, Jules Marin (Williams), a Paris thief so clever that the police cannot catch him, has been decorated with the Croix de guerre and loves children. He is popular with the underworld and people warn him when the police are coming. He makes an Apache jealous, and this man tells the prefect of police Henri Duval (Shaw) that Marin will be at a particular restaurant. However, Marin is told that one of his adopted orphan, whom he has picked out among the refugees, is sick, and leaves, thus saves himself. On the way to the orphan his car breaks down, and he goes to the home of jeweler Anton Deprenay (Standing) to get a car. The daughter Mme. Helen (Adams) is there alone and, believing that he is on an mission of mercy, lets him use the car, with him leaving his military decoration as collateral. The police later follow and take down the number of the car. When the prefect goes to the Deprenays, the car has been returned. Later, at a party, Marin is introduced to Helen as M. Picard, but she recognizes his voice. Marin recognizes a crooked promoter at the party. A necklace is stolen, and Helen suspects Marin, but he proves his innocence and recovers the gems. Helen tells him that when he gets as good a recognition from society as he obtained in the field of battle, she will be his friend. Marin learns that the promoter has a stock market scheme to swindle the community out of millions, so, while posing as an investigator from Scotland Yard, Marin helps the prefect get the money back. He and Helen ride off in an automobile.
The Squaw Man (1918)
, 1h47Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Warner Baxter, Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Lupe Vélez, Eleanor Boardman, Katherine MacDonald
Rating62%
A British army officer Captain James Wingate (Warner Baxter) is left disgraced when he takes the blame for his cousin Henry's (Paul Cavanagh) misappropriation of the regiment's charitable fund. He heads to the Wild West of the United States, taking over a ranch in Montana where he marries a beautiful Indian squaw Naturich (Lupe Velez) and have child Hal (Dickie Moore). Years later Henry arrives there with his wife Lady Diana (Eleanor Boardman), with whom James has been secretly in love.
True Blue (1918)
, 1hDirected by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors William Farnum, Francis Carpenter, Charles Clary, Kathryn Adams, William Scott, Harry De Vere
Roles Ruth Merritt
Riders of the Purple Sage (1918)
, 57minutesDirected by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors William Farnum, Buck Jones, Kathryn Adams, William Scott, Marc Robbins, Jack Nelson
Roles Masked rider / Millie
Rating23%
Former Texas Ranger Lassiter (William Farnum) leaves Texas and travels to Arizona sage country pursuing a group of Mormons who abducted his married sister. He arrives at the Withersteen ranch near the Utah border, where his sister was last seen. He meets the Withersteens and their beautiful daughter, Jane (Mary Mersch). Lassiter rescues her rider, Venters (William Scott), from torture at the hands of a villain named Tull (Murdock MacQuarrie). Soon, Lassiter falls in love with Jane, but when she learns about his mission, she is reluctant to help him, fearing more violence will come to the region. Her feelings for him change, however, when she sees the hardened gunfighter befriend her ward, a young orphan girl named Fay Larkin (Nancy Caswell).
The Valentine Girl (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, Kathryn Adams, Adolphe Menjou
Roles Lucille Haines
Baby Mine (1917)
Directed by John S. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Madge Kennedy, Kathryn Adams, Frank Morgan
Roles Aggie
As described in a film magazine, Alfred (Morgan) catches his wife Zoie (Kennedy) in so many lies that he leaves home and establishes an office in Boston. He is very fond of children so Zoie and Jimmie's wife Aggie (Adams) conspire to tell him that an heir has arrived, with Zoie planning on adopting a baby. Before arrangements have been completed for the baby's adoption, Alfred arrives home, necessitating the stealing of a child from a foundling home. The mother of the baby, however, sets up such a rumpus that they decide to return it and borrow the washerwoman's new-born babe, one of a set of twins. More complications result when Jimmie (Cumberland) comes in with the other twin, followed by the washerwoman's husband demanding his children back. While the three babies are being cooed over by Alfred, who believes he is the father of triplets, the respective parents arrive and claim their children.