Kathlyn Williams
Acting
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.
Movies(90)
Rendezvous at Midnight
Mrs. Arthur Dewey
1935
Blood Money
Nightclub Woman Wearing Monocle (uncredited)
1933
Unholy Love
Mrs. Bradford
1932
Daddy Long Legs
Mrs. Paula Pendleton
1931
Road to Paradise
Mrs. Wells
1930
Wedding Rings
Agatha
1929
The Single Standard
Mrs. Glendenning
1929
Her Husband's Women
1929
A Single Man
Mrs. Cottrell
1929
Our Dancing Daughters
Ann's Mother
1928
We Americans
Mrs. Bradleigh
1928
Honeymoon Flats
Mrs. Garland
1928
Sally in Our Alley
Mrs. Gordon Mansfield
1927
The Best People
Mrs. Lenox
1925
The Wanderer
Huldah
1925
Locked Doors
Laura Carter
1925
The Painted Flapper
Isabel Whitney
1924
The City That Never Sleeps
Mrs. Kendall
1924
The Enemy Sex
Mrs. Massingale
1924
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Magdalene Virey
1924
Single Wives
Dorothy Van Clark
1924
When a Girl Loves
Helen - Michael's Wife
1924
The Spanish Dancer
Queen Isabel of Bourbon
1923
Souls for Sale
Self - Celebrity Actress in Commisary
1923
Trimmed in Scarlet
Cordelia Ebbing / Madame de laFleur
1923
The World's Applause
Elsa Townsend
1923
Broadway Gold
Jean Valjean
1923
Clarence
Mrs. Wheeler
1922
A Virginia Courtship
Constance Llewellyn
1921
A Man's Home
Frances Osborn
1921
Morals
Judith Mainwaring
1921
A Private Scandal
Carol Lawton
1921
Hush
Isabel Dane
1921
Forbidden Fruit
Mrs. Mallory
1921
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Mrs. Adaile
1920
The U.P. Trail
"Beauty" Stanton
1920
The Prince Chap
Alice Travers
1920
Just a Wife
Eleanor Lathrop
1920
The Tree of Knowledge
Belle
1920
A Girl Named Mary
Mrs. Jaffrey
1919
Her Kingdom of Dreams
Penelope Warren
1919
Her Purchase Price
Diana Vane
1919
The Better Wife
Lady Beverly
1919
We Can't Have Everything
Charity Coe Cheever
1918
The Whispering Chorus
Jane Tremble
1918
The Thing We Love
Margaret Kenwood
1918
Big Timber
Stella Benton
1917
The Highway of Hope
Lonely Lou
1917
The Cost of Hatred
Elsie Graves / Sarita Graves
1917
Out of the Wreck
Agnes Aldrich
1917
Redeeming Love
Naomi Sterling
1916
The Valiants of Virginia
Shirley Dandridge
1916
Into the Primitive
Jennie Leslie
1916
Thou Shalt Not Covet
My Neighbor's Wife
1916
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Kathlyn Hare
1916
Sweet Alyssum
Daisy Brooks
1915
The Carpet from Bagdad
Fortune Chedsoye
1915
Chip of the Flying U
Della Whitmore - the 'Little Doctor'
1914
The Leopard's Foundling
Balu
1914
The King's Will
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Forged Parchment
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Warrior Maid
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Spellbound Multitude
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Spoilers
Cherry Malotte
1914
The Cruel Crown
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Garden of Brides
Kathlyn Hare
1914
Three Bags of Silver
Kathlyn Hare
1914
A Colonel in Chains
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Royal Slave
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Two Ordeals
Kathlyn Hare
1914
The Unwelcome Throne
Kathlyn Hare
1913
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Kathlyn Hare
1913
Thor, Lord of the Jungles
Gene Brant
1913
The Flight of the Crow
Edwina Washburn
1913
The House of His Master
Mrs. Robert Steem
1912
The Girl at the Cupola
Jessie Wilson
1912
Lost in the Jungle
Meta Kruga
1911
The Two Orphans
Henriette
1911
The Wheels of Justice
Alice Hazen
1911
Dad's Girls
Rose
1911
Life on the Border
The Pioneer Wife
1911
Captain Kate
Captain Kate
1911
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine
1911
Back to the Primitive
Helen Wilton
1911
In Old California When the Gringos Came
1911
The Witch of the Everglades
Dora - the Witch
1911
1861
1911
The Man from the East
Elsie Dean
1911
Thou Shalt Not
1910
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Extra
1909