
Katharine Alexander
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Katharine Alexander (September 22, 1898 – January 10, 1981) was an American actress of stage and screen. She appeared in 44 films between 1930 and 1951.
She was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas and died in Tryon, North Carolina. She was one eighth Cherokee Indian. She planned to be a concert artist, and it was while she was giving a violin recital that she was seen by Samuel Goldwyn who gave her a chance on stage from where she rose to be one of Broadway's leading ladies. She was married to William A. Brady Jr, (1900-1935), the son of William A. Brady a theatre actor, producer and sports promotor and actress Grace George. They had a daughter, Barbara Brady.
She starred alongside Paul Muni as his wife Linda Loman in London's Phoenix Theatre production of Death of a Salesman, which opened on July 28, 1949, directed by Elia Kazan.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.648 |
Birthday | 1898-09-20 |
Place of Birth | Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA |
Also Known As | Katherine Alexander, |

1930

Excuse the Pardon
0/0
A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
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Excuse the Pardon

1930

Taxi Talks
0/0
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to b...
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Taxi Talks

1937

Double Wedding
6.5/32
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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Double Wedding

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.3/196
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1942

Now, Voyager
7.3/204
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Now, Voyager

1934

Death Takes a Holiday
6.4/41
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon...
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Death Takes a Holiday

1934

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
6/19
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henriet...
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1943

The Human Comedy
6.315/27
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to w...
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The Human Comedy

1937

That Certain Woman
5.7/15
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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That Certain Woman

1933

Should Ladies Behave
4.3/6
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
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Should Ladies Behave

1934

Operator 13
5.7/13
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gai...
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Operator 13

1930

The Hard Guy
6.1/9
Guy and Ellen are desperate to find a way to get food and medicine for their sick child. Job are very hard to come by during the Great Depression and...
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The Hard Guy

1939

Broadway Serenade
6.2/4
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
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Broadway Serenade

1940

Anne of Windy Poplars
5.8/5
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'An...
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Anne of Windy Poplars

1941

Sis Hopkins
6/1
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
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Sis Hopkins

1935

Ginger
4.7/3
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and fa...
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Ginger

1935

The Girl from 10th Avenue
6.5/9
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decid...
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The Girl from 10th Avenue

1935

Enchanted April
5.4/4
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in he...
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Enchanted April

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1936

Moonlight Murder
5/4
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
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Moonlight Murder

1945

Kiss and Tell
5.6/5
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly s...
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Kiss and Tell

1936

Sutter's Gold
0/0
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Sutter's Gold

1941

Angels with Broken Wings
3.7/3
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But...
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Angels with Broken Wings

1939

The Great Man Votes
6.1/6
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...
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The Great Man Votes

1948

For the Love of Mary
5.8/6
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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For the Love of Mary

1936

The Devil Is a Sissy
6.9/11
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Devil Is a Sissy

1935

Splendor
6.3/6
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and t...
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Splendor

1935

Cardinal Richelieu
7.4/5
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Cardinal Richelieu

1949

John Loves Mary
4.8/4
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That h...
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John Loves Mary

1941

Play Girl
6.3/6
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
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Play Girl

1934

The Painted Veil
6.5/33
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
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The Painted Veil

1939

In Name Only
7/57
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
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In Name Only

1935

Alias Mary Dow
6.2/2
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Alias Mary Dow

1941

Small Town Deb
6/1
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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Small Town Deb

1939

Three Sons
3.2/2
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
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Three Sons

1935

After Office Hours
6.4/13
A managing editor sends a socialite reporter to spy on her boyfriend, mixed up in murder.
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After Office Hours

1935

She Married Her Boss
7/1
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his sp...
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She Married Her Boss

1937

The Girl from Scotland Yard
5/1
A female agent tacks down the cause of mysterious explosions.
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The Girl from Scotland Yard

1938

Rascals
6/0
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune tel...
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Rascals

1940

Dance, Girl, Dance
6.4/64
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career...
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Dance, Girl, Dance

1938

Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Breakdowns of 1938

1942

On the Sunny Side
6/1
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly...
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On the Sunny Side

1942

The Vanishing Virginian
6/1
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.
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The Vanishing Virginian

1937

As Good as Married
7/1
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
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As Good as Married

1937

Stage Door
6.978/116
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a the...
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