KATHERINE ALEXANDER , HOLLIWOOD ACTRESS
KATHERINE ALEXANDER , HOLLIWOOD ACTRESS Katherine Alexander,Born September 22, 1898 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA Died February 9, 1977 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA Mini Bio (1) Katherine (also called Katharine) Alexander, an excellent character actress, had been born in 1897 to a mother who was part Cherokee and to a father who farmed land on Indian territory. And yet she was never given the part of a native American in the course of her thirty-five-year acting career. Often a society lady, at times a suffering wife or a dignified mother, she was nearly always all-American. At ease in the register of drama and tragedy as well as in that of comedy, Katherine Alexander was a talented and versatile performer who alternated theater and cinema throughout a highly respectable career. An artist she was bound to be but rather a concert one than a thespian. Her mother, a frustrated musician herself, had indeed seen to it that she receive a formal musical education and young Kather...