Kathlyn Williams
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 30, 1879
- Died
- September 23, 1960 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- Butte, Montana, USA
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Rendezvous at Midnight
Movie · as Mrs. Arthur Dewey
Blood Money
Movie · as Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited)
Unholy Love
Movie · as Mrs. Bradford
Daddy Long Legs
Movie · as Mrs. Paula Pendleton
Road to Paradise
Movie · as Mrs. Wells
A Single Man
Movie · as Mrs. Cottrell
The Single Standard
Movie · as Mrs. Glendenning
Wedding Rings
Movie · as Agatha
Her Husband's Women
Movie
Our Dancing Daughters
Movie · as Ann's Mother
Honeymoon Flats
Movie · as Mrs. Garland
We Americans
Movie · as Mrs. Bradleigh
Sally in Our Alley
Movie · as Mrs. Gordon Mansfield
The Best People
Movie · as Mrs. Lenox
Locked Doors
Movie · as Laura Carter
The Wanderer
Movie · as Huldah
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Movie · as Magdalene Virey
The Enemy Sex
Movie · as Mrs. Massingale
When a Girl Loves
Movie · as Helen - Michael's Wife
The City That Never Sleeps
Movie · as Mrs. Kendall
The Painted Flapper
Movie · as Isabel Whitney
Single Wives
Movie · as Dorothy Van Clark
Trimmed in Scarlet
Movie · as Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur
The World's Applause
Movie · as Elsa Townsend
Souls for Sale
Movie · as Self - Celebrity Actress in Commisary
Broadway Gold
Movie · as Jean Valjean
The Spanish Dancer
Movie · as Queen Isabel of Bourbon
Clarence
Movie · as Mrs. Wheeler
Morals
Movie · as Judith Mainwaring
A Private Scandal
Movie · as Carol Lawton
Forbidden Fruit
Movie · as Mrs. Mallory
Hush
Movie · as Isabel Dane
A Man's Home
Movie · as Frances Osborn
A Virginia Courtship
Movie · as Constance Llewellyn
The U.P. Trail
Movie · as "Beauty" Stanton
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Movie · as Mrs. Adaile
Just a Wife
Movie · as Eleanor Lathrop
The Tree of Knowledge
Movie · as Belle
The Prince Chap
Movie · as Alice Travers
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Movie · as Penelope Warren
The Better Wife
Movie · as Lady Beverly
A Girl Named Mary
Movie · as Mrs. Jaffrey
Her Purchase Price
Movie · as Diana Vane
We Can't Have Everything
Movie · as Charity Coe Cheever
The Thing We Love
Movie · as Margaret Kenwood
The Whispering Chorus
Movie · as Jane Tremble
The Cost of Hatred
Movie · as Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves
Big Timber
Movie · as Stella Benton
Out of the Wreck
Movie · as Agnes Aldrich
The Highway of Hope
Movie · as Lonely Lou
Thou Shalt Not Covet
Movie · as My Neighbor's Wife
Into the Primitive
Movie · as Jennie Leslie
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
Redeeming Love
Movie · as Naomi Sterling
The Valiants of Virginia
Movie · as Shirley Dandridge
Sweet Alyssum
Movie · as Daisy Brooks
The Carpet from Bagdad
Movie · as Fortune Chedsoye
Three Bags of Silver
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Two Ordeals
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Royal Slave
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
A Colonel in Chains
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Garden of Brides
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Cruel Crown
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Spellbound Multitude
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Warrior Maid
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Forged Parchment
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The King's Will
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Spoilers
Movie · as Cherry Malotte
Chip of the Flying U
Movie · as Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor'
The Leopard's Foundling
Movie · as Balu
The Flight of the Crow
Movie · as Edwina Washburn
The Unwelcome Throne
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Movie · as Kathlyn Hare
Thor, Lord of the Jungles
Movie · as Gene Brant
The House of His Master
Movie · as Mrs. Robert Steem
The Girl at the Cupola
Movie · as Jessie Wilson
Dad's Girls
Movie · as Rose
The Wheels of Justice
Movie · as Alice Hazen
In Old California When the Gringos Came
Movie
The Man from the East
Movie · as Elsie Dean
The Witch of the Everglades
Movie · as Dora - the Witch
Back to the Primitive
Movie · as Helen Wilton
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
Movie · as Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine
The Two Orphans
Movie · as Henriette
Captain Kate
Movie · as Captain Kate
Lost in the Jungle
Movie · as Meta Kruga
Life on the Border
Movie · as The Pioneer Wife
1861
Movie
Thou Shalt Not
Movie
Gold Is Not All
Movie · as Tom's Mistress
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Movie · as Extra