Name Doris Kenyon Role Actress | Parents James B. Kenyon Children Kenyon Clarence Sills | |
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Spouse Bronislaw Mylnarski (m. 1947–1971) Movies Counsellor at Law, Voltaire, The Ocean Waif, The Road to Singapore, Alexander Hamilton Similar People Milton Sills, Doris Day, George Fitzmaurice, Alfred E Green, Alan Crosland | ||
Movie legends doris kenyon
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American actress of motion pictures and television.
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- Movie legends doris kenyon
- Doris kenyon
- Youth
- Film career
- Radio
- Television
- Marriages
- Death
- In popular culture
- Filmography
- References
Doris kenyon
Youth
She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at Packer College Institute and later at Columbia University. She sang in the choirs of Grace Presbyterian and Bushwick Methodist Churches in Brooklyn, New York.
Her voice attracted the attention of Broadway theatrical scouts who enticed her to become a performer on the stage. She first appeared in the Victor Herbert operetta The Princess Pat.
Film career
In 1915 she made her first film, The Rack, with World Film Company of Fort Lee, New Jersey. One of the most remembered films of her early career is Monsieur Beaucaire (1924). In this production she starred opposite Rudolph Valentino.
She was with Paramount Pictures for the studio's first dramatic, all-talking film, Interference, in 1928.
Kenyon was cast opposite actor George Arliss in two films. These are Alexander Hamilton (1931) and Voltaire (1933). She participated in Counsellor at Law (1933) with John Barrymore. In the autumn of 1935, Doris appeared with Ramon Novarro in the play, A Royal Miscarriage, in London, England.
Kenyon's film career ended with a cameo in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939).
Radio
Kenyon played Ann Cooper in the soap opera Crossroads on NBC in the 1940s.
Television
Kenyon continued her acting career in television in the 1950s. She was cast in episodes of The Secret Storm (1954), Schlitz Playhouse of Stars and 77 Sunset Strip.
Marriages
Kenyon was married a number of times.
Death
Doris Kenyon died in 1979 at her Beverly Hills, California home, of cardiac arrest, four days before her 82nd birthday.
In popular culture
In 1924 a newborn girl, Doris Kappelhoff, was named after Kenyon. Kappelhoff grew up to be singer and actress Doris Day. Many years later, Day would purchase a home in Beverly Hills that was "a few houses away from [her], on the very same street" from Kenyon's.