Kate Price (actress)
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Kate Price was an Irish
-born American
actress. She is perhaps best-remembered for playing the role of Mrs. Kelly in the comedy series, The Cohens and Kellys
, made by Universal Pictures
between 1926
and 1932
. Price appeared in 296 motion pictures
between 1910 and 1937.
, Ireland
. Her brother was actor Jack Duffy
. She began her stage
and vaudeville
career with her husband, Joseph Price Ludwig, in 1890. Price's motion picture career began with the old Vitagraph Studios
in New York City
, in 1902. She acted with such movie star
s as Flora Finch
, Douglas Fairbanks
, John Bunny
, Buster Keaton
, and Mary Pickford
. She was paired up with Oliver Hardy
for 14 films produced at the Vim Comedy Company
in Jacksonville, Florida
.
In 1917, Price went to Hollywood
. She had parts in The Sea Tiger (1927), The Godless Girl
(1929), and Reaching for the Moon
(1930). Her final MGM
feature was the 1934
Have a Heart. After making Easy Living and Live, Love and Learn (both released in 1937
), she retired.
, Woodland Hills
. Funeral services were held at St. Theresa's Church with interment in Calvary Cemetery
.
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
-born American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress. She is perhaps best-remembered for playing the role of Mrs. Kelly in the comedy series, The Cohens and Kellys
The Cohens and Kellys
The Cohens and Kellys is a 1926 comedy film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Charles Murray, George Sidney, Kate Price and Jason Robards Sr. The film is the first of the Cohens and Kellys film serials. The film is perhaps best known today as the subject of Nichols v...
, made by Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
between 1926
1926 in film
-Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
and 1932
1932 in film
-Events:*Cary Grant's film career begins*Katharine Hepburn's film career begins*Shirley Temple's film career begins*Disney released Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film.*Santa, first sound film made in Mexico released....
. Price appeared in 296 motion pictures
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
between 1910 and 1937.
Career
She was born Katherine Duffy in CorkCork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...
, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
. Her brother was actor Jack Duffy
Jack Duffy (actor)
Jack Duffy was an American film actor. He appeared in 85 films between 1916 and 1937.He was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and died in Hollywood, California. His sister was actress Kate Price....
. She began her stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
career with her husband, Joseph Price Ludwig, in 1890. Price's motion picture career began with the old Vitagraph Studios
Vitagraph Studios
American Vitagraph was a United States movie studio, founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York. By 1907 it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films. It was bought by Warner Bros...
in New York City
New York City
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, in 1902. She acted with such movie star
Movie star
A movie star is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures. The term may also apply to an actor or actress who is recognized as a marketable commodity and whose name is used to promote a movie in trailers and posters...
s as Flora Finch
Flora Finch
Flora Finch was an English-born film actress who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company.-Early life and career:...
, Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....
, John Bunny
John Bunny
John Bunny was an American actor and was one of the first comic stars of the motion picture era. Between 1910 and his death in 1915 Bunny was one of the top stars of early silent film, as well as an early example of celebrity...
, Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
, and Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
. She was paired up with Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.-Early life:...
for 14 films produced at the Vim Comedy Company
Vim Comedy Company
The Vim Comedy Company was a short lived movie studio in Jacksonville, Florida and New York. Vim bought out Siegmund Lubin's Lubin Manufacturing Company Jacksonville, Florida facilities in 1915 after that company went bankrupt. It was founded by Louis Burstein and Mark Dintenfass. Vim specialized...
in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
.
In 1917, Price went to Hollywood
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema...
. She had parts in The Sea Tiger (1927), The Godless Girl
The Godless Girl
The Godless Girl is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film.-Production background:...
(1929), and Reaching for the Moon
Reaching for the Moon (film)
Reaching for the Moon is an American 1930 black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut to 62 minutes. A 74-minute version aired in 1998 on USA cable channel AMC. The DVD version runs just under 72 minutes. The film's workingtitle was Lucky...
(1930). Her final MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
feature was the 1934
1934 in film
-Events:*January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the L. Frank Baum estate for $40,000.*February 19 - Bob Hope marries Dolores Reade...
Have a Heart. After making Easy Living and Live, Love and Learn (both released in 1937
1937 in film
The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.- Events :*April 16 - Way Out West premieres in the US....
), she retired.
Death
Price died at age 70 at the Motion Picture Country HomeMotion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital
The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital is a retirement community, with individual cottages, and a fully licensed, acute-care hospital, located at 23388 Mulholland Drive in Woodland Hills, California...
, Woodland Hills
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
Woodland Hills is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California.Woodland Hills is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, east of Calabasas and west of Tarzana, with Warner Center in its northern section...
. Funeral services were held at St. Theresa's Church with interment in Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles, California...
.
Selected filmography
- Her Crowning GloryHer Crowning GloryHer Crowning Glory is a 1911 comedy film directed by Laurence Trimble. This film is included in the DVD Treasures From American Film Archives program #2, 50 preserved films by the National Film Preservation Foundation.-Cast:...
(1911) - All for a GirlAll for a Girl (1912 film)All for a Girl is a 1912 American short silent film romantic comedy, directed by Frederick A. Thomson and written by Wallace Reid.-Cast:*Dorothy Kelly .... Claire Taylor*Leah Baird .... Mrs. Gardner*Kate Price .... The Cook...
(1912) - Bringing Up FatherBringing up FatherBringing Up Father was an influential American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus . Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 12, 1913 to May 28, 2000....
(1915) - The Waiters' BallThe Waiters' BallThe Waiters' Ball is a 1916 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Arbuckle's nephew Al St. John has a memorable role as Roscoe's rival.-Cast:* Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - The Cook* Al St...
(1916) - A Maid to OrderA Maid to OrderA Maid to Order is a 1916 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Plump * Raymond McKee - The Man of the House* Kate Price - Plump's Wife* Florence McLaughlin - The Lady of the House...
(1916) - Twin FlatsTwin FlatsTwin Flats is a 1916 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - Kate* Raymond McKee - Raymond* Florence McLaughlin...
(1916) - A Warm ReceptionA Warm Reception-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - Mrs. Price* Joe Cohen - Count De Appetyte* Florence McLaughlin - Mrs. Price's daughter...
(1916) - Pipe Dreams (1916)
- Mother's ChildMother's ChildMother's Child is a 1916 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - His mother* Joe Cohen - Tom* Florence McLaughlin - Florence...
(1916) - Prize WinnersPrize WinnersPrize Winners is a 1916 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - Lady Kate* Billy Ruge - Billy...
(1916) - The Guilty OnesThe Guilty OnesThe Guilty Ones is a 1916 comedy film directed by and starring Oliver Hardy. It was the first film to be directed by Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - Kate* Billy Ruge - A Detective...
(1916) - He Winked and WonHe Winked and WonHe Winked and Won is a 1916 comedy film directed by and starring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - Kate* Ethel Marie Burton - Ethel * Florence McLaughlin - Florence...
(1916) - Fat and FickleFat and FickleFat and Fickle is a 1916 comedy film directed by and starring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Oliver Hardy - Babe * Kate Price - Kate* Ethel Marie Burton - Ethel * Florence McLaughlin - Florence...
(1916) - The Boycotted BabyThe Boycotted BabyThe Boycotted Baby is a 1917 comedy film directed by and starring Oliver Hardy....
(1917) - Good Night, Nurse!Good Night, Nurse!Good Night, Nurse! is a 1918 short comedy film written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The action centers in a sanitarium Arbuckle's character was brought to by his wife, involuntarily, to be operated on by Keaton's character for his alcoholism.- Cast :*...
(1918) - My Wife's RelationsMy Wife's RelationsMy Wife's Relations is a 1922 short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton.-Cast:* Buster Keaton - The Husband* Monte Collins - The Father * Wheezer Dell - Brother * Harry Madison - Brother...
(1922) - The Wife of the CentaurThe Wife of the CentaurThe Wife of the Centaur is a 1924 silent drama film directed by King Vidor, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after it formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Mayer Pictures in April 1924....
(1924) - The Perfect ClownThe Perfect ClownThe Perfect Clown is a 1925 silent slapstick comedy motion picture starring Larry Semon and Kate Price. It features an early screen appearance by Oliver Hardy. Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, the screenplay was written by Thomas J...
(1925) - The Third DegreeThe Third DegreeThe Third Degree is a 1926 romance film directed by Michael Curtiz based the hit 1909 play of the same name written by Charles Klein and starring Helen Ware.A copy of this film is held by The Library of Congress. -Cast:...
(1926)