Kathleen Myers
{{short description|American actress}}
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| name = Kathleen Myers
| image = Kathleen Myers, film actress (SAYRE 7923).jpg
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| caption = Myers in 1925
| birth_date = April 16, 1899
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| birth_place = Covington, Kentucky, U.S.
| death_date = September 27, 1959 (aged 60)
| death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
| othername =
| occupation = Actress
| yearsactive = 1920–1928 (film)
| spouse =
}}
Kathleen Myers (April 16, 1899 – September 27, 1959) was an American film actress of the silent era.
Biography
Myers was the daughter of S. C. Myers, manager of Chrome Steel Works in Newark, New Jersey.{{cite news |title=Steel magnate's daughter joins motion pictures |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87827662/kathleen-myers/ |access-date=October 27, 2021 |work=The Star Press |date=February 12, 1922 |location=Indiana, Muncie |page=25|via = Newspapers.com}}
Appearing in 22 feature films between 1921 and 1928,{{cite book |last1=Katchmer |first1=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786446933 |page=274 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkOeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Kathleen+Myers%22+actress&pg=PA274 |accessdate=15 March 2019 |language=en}} "graduating from straight comedies to comedy drama and feature plays."{{cite news |title=Kathleen Myers Appearing With Billy Sullivan |url=https://archive.org/stream/universal1820univ#page/n280/mode/2up |accessdate=15 March 2019 |work=Universal Weekly |date=December 8, 1923 |page=12}} She also had lead roles in some films made in South America.
Myers was a leading lady in a number of action or adventure productions, including Dick Turpin (1925), in which she starred alongside Tom Mix.Solomon p. 292 During the early 1920s she also appeared in a number of comedy shorts, often featuring Oliver Hardy.
Partial filmography
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- Reputation (1921) - Ingenue (stage sequence)
- The Secret Four (1921)
- Captain Kidd (1922, Serial) - Louise Bradley
- Flaming Hearts (1922)
- Der Fluch der Habgier (1922)
- The Barnyard (1923, Short) - The Farmer's Daughter
- The Gown Shop (1923, Short) - Head saleslady
- Stolen Secrets (1924) - Cordelia Norton
- Babbitt (1924) - Miss McGoun
- Midnight Secrets (1924)
- Cheap Kisses (1924) - Mignon De Lisle
- Dick Turpin (1925) - Lady Alice Brookfield
- His Supreme Moment (1925) - Sara Deeping
- Heads Up (1925) - Angela
- Goat Getter (1925) - Virginia Avery
- Go West (1925) - His Daughter
- Smilin' at Trouble (1925) - Kathleen O'Toole
- The Traffic Cop (1926) - Alicia Davidson
- Sir Lumberjack (1926) - Bess Calhoun
- The Lucky Fool (1926) - Elma Saunders
- The Gentle Cyclone (1926) - Mary Wilkes
- Mulhall's Greatest Catch (1926) - Nora McCarren
- Kosher Kitty Kelly (1926) - Rosie Feinbaum
- The Flying Mail (1926) - Alice Hardwick
- Fourth Commandment (1927) - Mrs. Smith
- She's My Baby (1927) - Bernice Wilbur
- Ladies Beware (1927) - Georgette
- A Gentleman Preferred (1928) - Maryann Carter (final film role)
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References
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Bibliography
- Solomon, Aubrey. The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography. McFarland, 2011.
External links
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- {{IMDb name|0616762}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:People from Covington, Kentucky
Category:Actresses from Kentucky
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:American silent film actresses
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