Kathleen O'Malley

O'Malley was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to vaudevillian, stage and film actor Pat O'Malley.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/246155523|title=News Notes From Movieland|publisher=The Oshkosh Northwestern|date=May 15, 1924|access-date=September 17, 2017|page=8}} She made her screen debut at age 13 months in the film My Old Dutch, starring her father and including her older sister Sheila. It was released the following year in 1926.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/65061068|title=Youngest O'Malley Before the Camera|work=Quad-City Times|date=May 31, 1925|access-date=September 17, 2017|page=16}} All three sisters (Eileen, Sheila & Kathleen) worked in show business as children.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/314259339|title=You Must Plan Your Child's Future|work=The Nebraska State Journal|date=November 15, 1936|access-date=September 17, 2017|page=46}}

In 1943, she played the part of a college girl in the Vincent Sherman directed film Old Acquaintance which starred Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins and Gig Young.Turner Classic Movies. [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/352/old-acquaintance Old Acquaintance, Overview, Cast & Crew] The following year she was in the Charles Vidor directed Cover Girl, a film about a night club owner who was in love with a dancing girl who has other ambitions. In it she played the cigarette girl. The main stars of the film were Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly.Hollywood's Miracles of Entertainment By John Howard Reid [https://books.google.com/books?id=YdFd2yqpxYUC&dq=%22Kathleen+O%27Malley%22Cover+Girl%22&pg=PA60 Pages 60–61 Cover Girl] In November 1944, she appeared in the November 23 issue of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, pictured with a small caption "The Most Delightful Target for Our Bomb Sights." She was chosen by bombardiers of the US Army Air Forces.Sarasota Herald-Tribune November 23, 1944 [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19441123&id=lx4hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r2QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5001,3464872&hl=ko Page 2 Teasing Target] In 1947 she played the part of Dolly in the Alexander Hall-directed musical fantasy Down to Earth, which again starred Hayworth and Roland Culver.Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928–1982 [https://books.google.com/books?id=PKxN1as8XOMC&dq=%22Kathleen+O%27Malley%22Down+to+Earth%22&pg=PA63 Page 63 Down to Earth, Cast:] In 1949 she played the part of Nita in Ladies of the Chorus which starred Marilyn Monroe, Adele Jergens and Rand Brooks.Turner Classic Movies. [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80594/ladies-of-the-chorus Ladies of the Chorus, Cast & Crew]

O'Malley had a prominent role in John Ford's 1950 film, Wagon Master. She played the part of pretty Mormon girl Prudence Perkins.Western Film Highlights: The Best of the West, 1914–2001 By Henryk Hoffmann [https://books.google.com/books?id=S4AwCgAAQBAJ&dq=Kathleen+O%27Malley+Prudence&pg=PA161 Page 161 90. Wagon Master]Music in the Western: Notes From the Frontier – By Kathryn Kalinak [https://books.google.com/books?id=UXmpAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Kathleen+O%27Malley%22Prudence&pg=PA44 Page 44] Her character Prudence creates an issue{{clarification needed|date=November 2024}} due to presumably marrying Sandy instead of young Mormon man Jackson.The great book of movie villains: a guide to the screen's meanies, tough guys, and bullies – Jan Stacy, Ryder Syvertsen [https://books.google.com/books?id=wmaG_fVcKx4C&q=Kathleen+O'Malley+Prudence Page 54]The Western Reader – Jim Kitses, Gregg Rickman [https://books.google.com/books?id=PhruAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Kathleen+O'Malley%22Prudence Page 99] Prudence is also the probable cause of a fight between the two men who are both pursuing her.Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond By Scott Allen Nollen [https://books.google.com/books?id=AnKDuPhlyS4C&dq=%22Kathleen+O%27Malley%22Prudence+Perkins%22Fight&pg=PA206 Page 206] In 1952, she appeared as Mrs. Norton, a pilot's wife in the Tay Garnett Korean war film One Minute to Zero which starred Robert Mitchum and Ann Blyth.Turner Classic Movies [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1482/one-minute-to-zero One Minute to Zero, Overview, Cast & Crew]

O'Malley died of Alzheimer's disease on February 25, 2019, at age 94.[http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1114369-spring-2019/68? SAG-AFTRA-Spring Edition 2019, In Memoriam]

O'Malley was married to James Maloney who was also her agent.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19580306&id=smNQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bBAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7023,2684208&hl=ko Page 6 Part 2 SNAPS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422001211/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19580306&id=smNQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bBAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7023,2684208&hl=ko |date=2016-04-22 }}, Milwaukee Sentinel March 6, 1958. The couple had two children: Sean (b. 1958) and Darren (b. 1960). Maloney died on March 23, 1994.{{cite journal | title = Obituaries: Kathleen O'Malley (1924–2019) | journal = The Three Stooges Journal | issue = 171 | pages = 3 | publisher = The Three Stooges Fan Club, Inc. | location = Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania | date = Fall 2019 }}

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