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Kathryn Adams Doty

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Kathryn Adams Doty
Born
Kathryn Elizabeth Hohn

( 1920-07-15 ) July 15, 1920
New Ulm, Minnesota , U.S.
Died October 14, 2016 (2016-10-14) (aged 96)
Mankato, Minnesota , U.S. [1] [2]
Alma mater Hamline University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • novelist
  • psychologist
Years active 1939?1946 (acting career)
Spouses
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    ( m.  1941; div.  1974) ​
  • Fred Doty
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    ​
    ( m.  1976; died 2011) ​
Children 3

Kathryn Elizabeth Doty (nee Hohn ; July 15, 1920 ? October 14, 2016), also known by her stage name Kathryn Adams or as Kathryn Adams Doty , was an American actress, novelist and psychologist.

Early years [ edit ]

The daughter of a Methodist minister, Dr. Chris G. Hohn, [3] Doty was born in New Ulm, Minnesota . When she was six, [4] the family moved to Warrenton, Missouri , [3] where her father was chaplain and executive secretary at an orphans' home. [4] After she developed lung problems, she spent two years at a camp in Minnesota. As early as age 13, she took her father's place in the pulpit when he was sick. In a 1939 newspaper article, she recalled: "It was quite a radical thing, in that small town, for a little girl to conduct the church services and preach the sermon, but the congregation understood and were very kind to me." [4]

Doty was a student at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, (where she sang in the a cappella choir) [4] and worked as a catalog clerk at the headquarters of Montgomery Ward [5] when an opportunity for an acting career arose. She competed in 1939 in the national finals of the Jesse L. Lasky radio contest Gateway to Hollywood , received a contract, [4] and remained in California to begin a film career under the name of Kathryn Adams.

Film [ edit ]

Doty debuted on film in Fifth Avenue Girl (1939). [4] One of her more notable roles was as Mrs. Brown, the young mother in Alfred Hitchcock 's Saboteur (1942). [6] She co-starred in Sky Raiders (1941), a film serial from Universal Pictures, and had the leading lady role in three Western films in which Johnny Mack Brown starred. [7]

Personal life [ edit ]

She married fellow actor Hugh Beaumont in an Easter wedding on April 13, 1941, at Hollywood Congregational Church. [8]

She earned a master's degree in educational psychology and had a career as a psychologist, working at the Footlight's Child Guidance Clinic at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and later in Minnesota after she moved back to her home state. [7]

Writing [ edit ]

Writing as Kathryn Doty , she published short stories in Pocket , The Friend and various children's magazines. [7]

Death [ edit ]

Adams died on October 14, 2016, aged 96, in an assisted living facility in Mankato, Minnesota . [9] [10]

Partial filmography [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Gelt, Jessica (October 22, 2016). "Kathryn Adams Doty, actress in Hitchcock's 'Saboteur,' dies at 96" . Los Angeles Times .
  2. ^ Barnes, Mike (October 22, 2016). "Kathryn Adams, Actress in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and Hitchcock's 'Saboteur,' Dies at 96" . The Hollywood Reporter . ISSN   0018-3660 .
  3. ^ a b "Former Warrenton Girl in Movies" . St. Clair Chronicle . Missouri, St. Clair. November 23, 1939. p. 1 . Retrieved October 29, 2016 – via Newspapers.com . Open access icon
  4. ^ a b c d e f Clark, W.K. (September 17, 1939). "Prepared for Screen Stardom in the Pulpit!" . The Salt Lake Tribune . Utah, Salt Lake City. p. 77 . Retrieved October 29, 2016 – via Newspapers.com . Open access icon
  5. ^ Othman, Frederick C. (April 15, 1940). "Hollywood Day By Day" . The Danville Morning News . Pennsylvania, Danville. United Press. p. 2 . Retrieved October 29, 2016 – via Newspapers.com . Open access icon
  6. ^ Fitzgerald, Mike. "Kathryn Adams Interview" . Western Clippings . Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
  7. ^ a b c Fitzgerald, Michael G.; Magers, Boyd (2006). Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . McFarland. pp. 9?13. ISBN   9780786426560 . Retrieved October 30, 2016 .
  8. ^ "News Briefs" . The Daily Reporter . Indiana, Greenfield. International News Service. April 14, 1941. p. 4 . Retrieved October 29, 2016 – via Newspapers.com . Open access icon
  9. ^ Gelt, Jessica (October 22, 2016). "Kathryn Adams Doty, actress in Hitchcock's 'Saboteur,' dies at 96" . Los Angeles Times .
  10. ^ Barnes, Mike (October 22, 2016). "Kathryn Adams, Actress in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and Hitchcock's 'Saboteur,' Dies at 96" . The Hollywood Reporter . ISSN   0018-3660 .

External links [ edit ]

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