1879-05-30 Butte, Montana, USA
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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Rendezvous at Midnight | Mrs. Arthur Dewey | 1935-02-11 |
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Blood Money | Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited) | 1933-11-17 |
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Unholy Love | Mrs. Bradford | 1932-06-08 |
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Daddy Long Legs | Mrs. Paula Pendleton | 1931-06-05 |
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Road to Paradise | Mrs. Wells | 1930-07-20 |
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Wedding Rings | Agatha | 1929-12-29 |
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A Single Man | Mrs. Cottrell | 1929-01-12 |
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Her Husband's Women | 1929-06-29 | |
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The Single Standard | Mrs. Glendenning | 1929-07-27 |
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Honeymoon Flats | Mrs. Garland | 1928-04-01 |
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We Americans | Mrs. Bradleigh | 1928-05-06 |
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Our Dancing Daughters | Ann's Mother | 1928-09-01 |
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Sally in Our Alley | Mrs. Gordon Mansfield | 1927-09-02 |
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The Wanderer | Huldah | 1925-08-19 |
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The Best People | Mrs. Lenox | 1925-11-09 |
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Locked Doors | Laura Carter | 1925-01-05 |
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When a Girl Loves | Helen - Michael's Wife | 1924-04-20 |
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The Enemy Sex | Mrs. Massingale | 1924-08-25 |
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Wanderer of the Wasteland | Magdalene Virey | 1924-08-09 |
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Broadway Gold | Jean Valjean | 1923-01-01 |
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The Spanish Dancer | Queen Isabel of Bourbon | 1923-10-06 |
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Souls for Sale | Self - Celebrity Actress in Commisary | 1923-04-22 |
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Trimmed in Scarlet | Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur | 1923-04-09 |
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The World's Applause | Elsa Townsend | 1923-01-29 |
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Clarence | Mrs. Wheeler | 1922-10-15 |
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Morals | Judith Mainwaring | 1921-10-31 |
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A Private Scandal | Carol Lawton | 1921-06-11 |
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Hush | Isabel Dane | 1921-03-05 |
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A Man's Home | Frances Osborn | 1921-12-18 |
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Forbidden Fruit | Mrs. Mallory | 1921-01-03 |
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Morals | 1921-10-31 | |
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth | Mrs. Adaile | 1920-11-06 |
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The Tree of Knowledge | Belle | 1920-01-18 |
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The Prince Chap | Alice Travers | 1920-08-01 |
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The U.P. Trail | "Beauty" Stanton | 1920-11-01 |
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Just a Wife | Eleanor Lathrop | 1920-02-23 |
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The Better Wife | Lady Beverly | 1919-07-13 |
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Her Kingdom of Dreams | Penelope Warren | 1919-09-21 |
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The Thing We Love | Margaret Kenwood | 1918-02-11 |
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We Can't Have Everything | Charity Coe Cheever | 1918-07-07 |
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The Whispering Chorus | Jane Tremble | 1918-03-28 |
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Big Timber | Stella Benton | 1917-07-04 |
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The Cost of Hatred | Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves | 1917-04-09 |
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The Valiants of Virginia | Shirley Dandridge | 1916-06-26 |
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Thou Shalt Not Covet | My Neighbor's Wife | 1916-02-07 |
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Redeeming Love | Naomi Sterling | 1916-12-28 |
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The Adventures of Kathlyn | Kathlyn Hare | 1916-01-14 |
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Into the Primitive | Jennie Leslie | 1916-05-29 |
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Sweet Alyssum | Daisy Brooks | 1915-11-15 |
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The Carpet from Bagdad | Fortune Chedsoye | 1915-05-03 |
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The Warrior Maid | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-05-14 |
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The Spellbound Multitude | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-04-20 |
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The Forged Parchment | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-05-18 |
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Three Bags of Silver | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-03-09 |
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The Spoilers | Cherry Malotte | 1914-04-10 |
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The Leopard's Foundling | Balu | 1914-06-29 |
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The Cruel Crown | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-04-06 |
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A Colonel in Chains | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-02-23 |
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The Royal Slave | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-02-09 |
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The Garden of Brides | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-03-23 |
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The King's Will | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-06-01 |
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The Two Ordeals | Kathlyn Hare | 1914-01-12 |
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Chip of the Flying U | Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor' | 1914-08-29 |
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The Unwelcome Throne | Kathlyn Hare | 1913-12-29 |
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The Flight of the Crow | Edwina Washburn | 1913-08-11 |
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The Adventures of Kathlyn | Kathlyn Hare | 1913-12-29 |
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Thor, Lord of the Jungles | Gene Brant | 1913-11-01 |
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The Girl at the Cupola | Jessie Wilson | 1912-08-07 |
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The House of His Master | Mrs. Robert Steem | 1912-09-09 |
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The Two Orphans | Henriette | 1911-09-24 |
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In Old California When the Gringos Came | 1911-05-04 | |
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Back to the Primitive | Helen Wilton | 1911-05-10 |
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The Witch of the Everglades | Dora - the Witch | 1911-04-26 |
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The Man from the East | Elsie Dean | 1911-03-16 |
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The Rose of Old St. Augustine | Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine | 1911-05-31 |
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Captain Kate | Captain Kate | 1911-07-12 |
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Life on the Border | The Pioneer Wife | 1911-08-22 |
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1861 | 1911-03-30 | |
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The Wheels of Justice | Alice Hazen | 1911-09-14 |
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Dad's Girls | Rose | 1911-09-12 |
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Lost in the Jungle | Meta Kruga | 1911-10-25 |
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Thou Shalt Not | 1910-03-03 | |
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea | Extra | 1909-10-27 |
