1879-05-30 ( 145 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Rendezvous at Midnight
1935-02-11
Blood Money
1933-11-17
Unholy Love
1932-06-08
Daddy Long Legs
1931-06-05
Road to Paradise
1930-07-20
Wedding Rings
1929-12-29
The Single Standard
1929-07-27
A Single Man
1929-01-12
Our Dancing Daughters
1928-09-01
We Americans
1928-05-06
Honeymoon Flats
1928-04-01
Sally in Our Alley
1927-09-02
The Best People
1925-11-09
The Wanderer
1925-08-19
Locked Doors
1925-01-05
The Enemy Sex
1924-08-25
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1924-08-09
The Spanish Dancer
1923-10-06
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
Trimmed in Scarlet
1923-04-09
The World's Applause
1923-01-29
Broadway Gold
1923-01-01
Clarence
1922-10-15
A Man's Home
1921-12-18
Morals
1921-10-31
Morals
1921-10-31
A Private Scandal
1921-06-11
Hush
1921-03-05
Forbidden Fruit
1921-01-03
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
1920-11-06
The U.P. Trail
1920-11-01
Just a Wife
1920-02-23
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919-09-21
The Better Wife
1919-07-13
We Can't Have Everything
1918-07-07
The Whispering Chorus
1918-03-28
The Thing We Love
1918-02-11
Big Timber
1917-07-04
The Cost of Hatred
1917-04-09
Redeeming Love
1916-12-28
The Valiants of Virginia
1916-06-26
Into the Primitive
1916-05-29
Thou Shalt Not Covet
1916-02-07
The Adventures of Kathlyn
1916-01-14
Sweet Alyssum
1915-11-15
The Carpet from Bagdad
1915-05-03
Chip of the Flying U
1914-08-29
The Leopard's Foundling
1914-06-29
The King's Will
1914-06-01
The Forged Parchment
1914-05-18
The Warrior Maid
1914-05-14
The Spellbound Multitude
1914-04-20
The Spoilers
1914-04-10
The Cruel Crown
1914-04-06
The Garden of Brides
1914-03-23
Three Bags of Silver
1914-03-09
A Colonel in Chains
1914-02-23
The Royal Slave
1914-02-09
The Two Ordeals
1914-01-12
The Unwelcome Throne
1913-12-29
The Adventures of Kathlyn
1913-12-29
Thor, Lord of the Jungles
1913-11-01
The Flight of the Crow
1913-08-11
The House of His Master
1912-09-09
The Girl at the Cupola
1912-08-07
Lost in the Jungle
1911-10-25
The Two Orphans
1911-09-24
The Wheels of Justice
1911-09-14
Dad's Girls
1911-09-12
Life on the Border
1911-08-22
Captain Kate
1911-07-12
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
1911-05-31
Back to the Primitive
1911-05-10
In Old California When the Gringos Came
1911-05-04
The Witch of the Everglades
1911-04-26
1861
1911-03-30
The Man from the East
1911-03-16
Thou Shalt Not
1910-03-03
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