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.
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Filme (92)
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935 · Mrs. Arthur Dewey
Blood Money
1933 · Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited)
Unholy Love
1932 · Mrs. Bradford
Daddy Long Legs
1931 · Mrs. Paula Pendleton
Road to Paradise
1930 · Mrs. Wells
Wedding Rings
1929 · Agatha
The Single Standard
1929 · Mrs. Glendenning
Her Husband's Women
1929
A Single Man
1929 · Mrs. Cottrell
Our Dancing Daughters
1928 · Ann's Mother
We Americans
1928 · Mrs. Bradleigh
Honeymoon Flats
1928 · Mrs. Garland
Sally in Our Alley
1927 · Mrs. Gordon Mansfield
The Best People
1925 · Mrs. Lenox
The Wanderer
1925 · Huldah
Locked Doors
1925 · Laura Carter
The Painted Flapper
1924 · Isabel Whitney
The City That Never Sleeps
1924 · Mrs. Kendall
The Enemy Sex
1924 · Mrs. Massingale
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1924 · Magdalene Virey
Single Wives
1924 · Dorothy Van Clark
When a Girl Loves
1924 · Helen - Michael's Wife
The Spanish Dancer
1923 · Queen Isabel of Bourbon
Souls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actress in Commisary
Trimmed in Scarlet
1923 · Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur
The World's Applause
1923 · Elsa Townsend
Broadway Gold
1923 · Jean Valjean
Clarence
1922 · Mrs. Wheeler
A Virginia Courtship
1921 · Constance Llewellyn
A Man's Home
1921 · Frances Osborn
Morals
1921 · Judith Mainwaring
A Private Scandal
1921 · Carol Lawton
Hush
1921 · Isabel Dane
Forbidden Fruit
1921 · Mrs. Mallory
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
1920 · Mrs. Adaile
The U.P. Trail
1920 · "Beauty" Stanton
The Prince Chap
1920 · Alice Travers
Just a Wife
1920 · Eleanor Lathrop
The Tree of Knowledge
1920 · Belle
A Girl Named Mary
1919 · Mrs. Jaffrey
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919 · Penelope Warren
Her Purchase Price
1919 · Diana Vane
The Better Wife
1919 · Lady Beverly
We Can't Have Everything
1918 · Charity Coe Cheever
The Whispering Chorus
1918 · Jane Tremble
The Thing We Love
1918 · Margaret Kenwood
Lost in Transit
1917 · Story
Big Timber
1917 · Stella Benton
The Highway of Hope
1917 · Lonely Lou
The Cost of Hatred
1917 · Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves
Out of the Wreck
1917 · Agnes Aldrich
Redeeming Love
1916 · Naomi Sterling
The Valiants of Virginia
1916 · Shirley Dandridge
Into the Primitive
1916 · Jennie Leslie
Thou Shalt Not Covet
1916 · My Neighbor's Wife
The Adventures of Kathlyn
1916 · Kathlyn Hare
Sweet Alyssum
1915 · Daisy Brooks
The Carpet from Bagdad
1915 · Fortune Chedsoye
Chip of the Flying U
1914 · Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor'
The Leopard's Foundling
1914 · Balu, Director, Writer
The King's Will
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Forged Parchment
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Warrior Maid
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Spellbound Multitude
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Spoilers
1914 · Cherry Malotte
The Cruel Crown
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Garden of Brides
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
Three Bags of Silver
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
A Colonel in Chains
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Royal Slave
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Two Ordeals
1914 · Kathlyn Hare
The Unwelcome Throne
1913 · Kathlyn Hare
The Adventures of Kathlyn
1913 · Kathlyn Hare
Thor, Lord of the Jungles
1913 · Gene Brant
The Flight of the Crow
1913 · Edwina Washburn
The House of His Master
1912 · Mrs. Robert Steem
The Girl at the Cupola
1912 · Jessie Wilson
Lost in the Jungle
1911 · Meta Kruga
The Two Orphans
1911 · Henriette
The Wheels of Justice
1911 · Alice Hazen
Dad's Girls
1911 · Rose
Life on the Border
1911 · The Pioneer Wife
Captain Kate
1911 · Captain Kate
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
1911 · Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine
Back to the Primitive
1911 · Helen Wilton
In Old California When the Gringos Came
1911
The Witch of the Everglades
1911 · Dora - the Witch
1861
1911
The Man from the East
1911 · Elsie Dean
Thou Shalt Not
1910
Gold Is Not All
1910 · Tom's Mistress
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909 · Extra
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