Katherine MacDonald

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Biography

American actor and film producer

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 14 December 1881
  • Place of birth
  • Pittsburgh
  • Death date
  • 1956-06-04
  • Death age
  • 75
  • Place of death
  • Santa Barbara· California
  • Children
  • William Macleod·
  • Parents
  • Alexander Macdonald·

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Trivia

Sister of actress Mary MacLaren.

Great favourite of President Woodrow Wilson.

Conducted a public feud with her actress-sister Mary MacLaren.

Blonde, blue-eyed silent screen star of romantic melodramas in the 1920s, a former model. She was one of the first actresses to set up her own production company, Katherine MacDonald Pictures (1919-1921). She was a significant box-office earner for First National and B.P. Schulberg, starring opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas Meighan and William S. Hart. After her retirement from acting, she ran a cosmetics business.

Her second marriage, to Christian Holmes, heir to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune, ended in sensational headlines in 1931, when she claimed he kept her locked in a cage, and he charged her with marital infidelity.

Suffered from diabetes in her later years, which resulted in having a leg amputated in 1954.

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