Katherine DeMille

Actress

Katherine DeMille was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 29th, 1911 and is the Actress. At the age of 83, Katherine DeMille biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Katherine Paula Lester
Date of Birth
June 29, 1911
Nationality
Canada, United States
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Death Date
Apr 27, 1995 (age 83)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Actor, Film Actor
Katherine DeMille Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 83 years old, Katherine DeMille has this physical status:

Height
162cm
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Not Available
Eye Color
Not Available
Build
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Measurements
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Katherine DeMille Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
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Education
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Katherine DeMille Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Anthony Quinn, ​ ​(m. 1937; div. 1965)​
Children
5
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
Cecil B. DeMille, Constance Adams DeMille
Siblings
Henry C. de Mille (grandfather), Beatrice deMille (grandmother), Richard de Mille (brother), William C. deMille (uncle), Agnes de Mille (cousin), Peggy George (cousin)
Katherine DeMille Career

DeMille gained experience on stage in 1930 "by acting as understudy for the feminine 'heavy' of the play Rebound" in San Francisco. She wanted to begin an acting career on her own and used the stage name "Kay Marsh" whenever she worked as an extra.

DeMille's first credited role was Rosita Morales, the wife of Wallace Beery's Pancho Villa, in the 1934 MGM film Viva Villa!.

She played another Mexican woman, a maid named Lupe, in the Paramount production The Trumpet Blows (1934), and her performance earned her a contract with Paramount Pictures. Her next role was Molly Bryant, the nemesis of Mae West's character in Belle of the Nineties (1934). She played the second female role in All the King's Horses (1935) at Paramount, and was loaned to Columbia Pictures for The Black Room (1935) and to 20th Century Fox for Call of the Wild (1935).

The role of Princess Alice of France in The Crusades (1935) was a Christmas gift from her father, Cecil B. DeMille. Andre Sennwald of The New York Times wrote that the actors who gave "excellent performances" in the film included "that striking brunette, Katherine De Mille." Hollywood also praised DeMille, who was "splendid as the jilted Princess Alice of France."

Paramount then cast her in two more leading roles; she was the sister of Buster Crabbe in the Western Drift Fence (1936) and a parachutist and the romantic interest of William Gargan in the aviation drama The Sky Parade (1936). She returned to MGM to play the uncredited role of Rosaline, Romeo's first love, in the 1936 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In the mid-1930s, she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox. The studio cast her in the role of Margarita in its 1936 Technicolor film version of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona, starring Loretta Young as the title character. She was Barbara Stanwyck's rival for the love of Joel McCrea in Banjo on My Knee (1936) and played the main female role in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937). She received third billing as an antagonist in The Californian (1937) and played a much smaller part in Love Under Fire (1937).

She went to Columbia Pictures to co-star as Jack Holt's leading lady in Under Suspicion (1937). She had a minor supporting role in the Walter Wanger production Blockade (1938), a drama about the Spanish Civil War. Again at Columbia, she was cast in the leading female role in another Jack Holt vehicle, Trapped in the Sky (1939).

DeMille played supporting roles in the Roy Rogers vehicle In Old Caliente (1939), the RKO adventure Isle of Destiny (1940), the Columbia mystery film Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940), the Universal mystery film Dark Streets of Cairo (1940), and Paramount's Technicolor adventure Aloma of the South Seas (1941). She retired from films to raise her children and devote her time to her family.

After a six-year absence, DeMille returned to the screen when she co-starred with her husband, Anthony Quinn, for the first and only time in the Allied Artists drama Black Gold (1947), directed by Phil Karlson. She received good notices from the critics. Motion Picture Daily opined that she deserved to share Quinn's "highest acting compliment . . . The tender byplay of their mutual understanding, respect and love provide the refreshingly different romance of the picture." The Film Daily wrote: "Katherine DeMille does splendid work as Quinn's wife, who has had good schooling, but is a loyal, obedient helpmeet." Harrison's Reports also commended the performances of the Quinns: "As to the acting, both Anthony Quinn and Katherine DeMille rise to the occasion."

Her father cast her in a supporting role in his epic Unconquered (1947), starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. The Film Daily noticed that, as the Native American wife of the antagonist portrayed by Howard Da Silva, "Miss DeMille is properly sullen and tragic."

Her final credited role was Lucille Strang, the wife of Milburn Stone's character, in the film noir The Judge (1949), a Film Classics release directed by Elmer Clifton. Showmen's Trade Review praised the work of both Stone and DeMille: "The two stars, Milburn Stone and Katherine DeMille, contribute excellent acting, keeping their characterizations consistently within the film's framework."

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