1. Katherine DeMille signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and portrayed Princess Alice of France in her father's epic The Crusades and starred in The Sky Parade.
24 Facts About Katherine DeMille
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Katherine DeMille returned to films with roles in Black Gold and Unconquered and starred in her final film, The Judge, in 1949.
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Katherine DeMille's biological father, Edward Gabriel Lester, was a Scottish-born English schoolteacher who served as a lieutenant in the 102nd Battalion, CEF during World War I and died at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 and was the grandson of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson Lester.
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Katherine DeMille was a paternal granddaughter of Reverend John Moore Lester, rector of Litchborough, Northamptonshire, England.
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Katherine DeMille gained experience on stage in 1930 "by acting as understudy for the feminine 'heavy' of the play Rebound" in San Francisco.
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Katherine DeMille wanted to begin an acting career on her own and used the stage name "Kay Marsh" whenever she worked as an extra.
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Katherine DeMille played another Mexican woman, a maid named Lupe, in the Paramount production The Trumpet Blows, and her performance earned her a contract with Paramount Pictures.
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Katherine DeMille played the second female role in All the King's Horses at Paramount, and was loaned to Columbia Pictures for The Black Room and to 20th Century Fox for Call of the Wild.
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Katherine DeMille 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.
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Katherine DeMille was Barbara Stanwyck's rival for the love of Joel McCrea in Banjo on My Knee and played the main female role in Charlie Chan at the Olympics.
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Katherine DeMille received third billing as an antagonist in The Californian and played a much smaller part in Love Under Fire.
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Katherine DeMille went to Columbia Pictures to co-star as Jack Holt's leading lady in Under Suspicion.
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Katherine DeMille had a minor supporting role in the Walter Wanger production Blockade, a drama about the Spanish Civil War.
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Katherine DeMille played supporting roles in the Roy Rogers vehicle In Old Caliente, the RKO adventure Isle of Destiny, the Columbia mystery film Ellery Queen, Master Detective, the Universal mystery film Dark Streets of Cairo, and Paramount's Technicolor adventure Aloma of the South Seas.
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Katherine DeMille retired from films to raise her children and devote her time to her family.
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Katherine DeMille's father cast her in a supporting role in his epic Unconquered, starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard.
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Katherine DeMille's final credited role was Lucille Strang, the wife of Milburn Stone's character, in the film noir The Judge, a Film Classics release directed by Elmer Clifton.
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Katherine DeMille married actor Anthony Quinn on October 2,1937 at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills.
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Katherine DeMille became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1938.
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Katherine DeMille accepted the 1953 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on behalf of her husband, who was not present at the ceremony.
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Katherine DeMille wanted a divorce so that he could be free to raise his illegitimate children by an Italian woman.
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Katherine DeMille was extremely lovable and beautiful, a terrific combination.
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Around 1988, Katherine DeMille moved from Pacific Palisades to Tucson, Arizona to live with one of her daughters and grandchildren.
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Katherine DeMille died of Alzheimer's disease in Tucson on April 27,1995.