Kay Aldridge

Kay Aldridge

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Katharine Gratten Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American actress and model, best known for playing feisty and imperiled heroines in black-and-white serials during the 1940s. A notable role was as Nyoka Gordon in Perils of Nyoka. Aldridge was born on July 9, 1917 in Tallahassee, Florida. Her father was a surveyor and her mother was an artist and writer. After attending her first year of high school in Westminster, Maryland, she enrolled in St. Mary's Female Seminary (now St. Mary's College of Maryland) in St. Mary's City, Maryland. While at St. Mary's, she acted in plays, played basketball, and was a member of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Following her high school graduation in 1934, Aldridge found work with the John Powers modeling agency in New York. She appeared on the covers of magazines such as Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, and Look. In 1937, Aldridge was chosen as one of the ten most photographed girls in the world, and was selected to go to Hollywood to appear in the United Artists film Vogues of 1938. In 1939 she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, and in the next few years landed a number of minor and largely decorative roles, credited as Katherine Aldridge. The films she made during this period include Shooting High (1940) playing Evelyn Trent, Sailor's Lady (1940) playing Georgine, Down Argentine Way (1940) playing Helen Carson, and Dead Men Tell (1941) playing Laura Thursday. She was among the actresses screen tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. After her contract with 20th Century Fox expired in 1941, she was approach by Republic Pictures to star in an upcoming film serial. Although she considered serial work a "comedown" from being a featured player at Fox, she accepted the offer because it offered her a lead role and a salary of about $650 a week, good money at the time. Her first serial for Republic was Perils of Nyoka (1942), which offered dramatic cliffhanger scenes at the end of each episode. She retired from acting in 1945. Aldridge was married three times: to Arthur Cameron from 1945 to 1954, to Richard Derby Tucker from 1956 until his death in 1979, and lastly to Harry Nasland until his death in 1988. In her later years she lived in Camden, Maine, and was a locally renowned hostess. Aldridge died of a heart attack on January 12, 1995 in Rockport, Maine. She is interred at Sea View Cemetery in Rockport, Maine.

  • Title : Kay Aldridge
  • Popularity : 1.575
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1917-07-09
  • Place of Birth : Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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  • Also Known As : Katharine Aldridge, Katherine Aldridge, Katharine Gratten Aldridge
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Kay Aldridge Movies

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    Down Argentine Way

    Down Argentine Way

    6 1940 HD

    The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...

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    Dead Men Tell

    Dead Men Tell

    6.3 1941 HD

    When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces,...

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    Girl in 313

    Girl in 313

    5.6 1940 HD

    A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

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    Haunted Harbor

    Haunted Harbor

    7 1944 HD

    A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of...

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    The Phantom of 42nd Street

    The Phantom of 42nd Street

    4.5 1945 HD

    A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.

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    The Man Who Walked Alone

    The Man Who Walked Alone

    5.5 1945 HD

    A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's...

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    Here I Am a Stranger

    Here I Am a Stranger

    7 1939 HD

    The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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    Shooting High

    Shooting High

    8 1940 HD

    A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

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  • 1942
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    Perils of Nyoka

    Perils of Nyoka

    1 1942 HD

    Professor Campbell's expedition into the hills of Libya obtains a papyrus which might reveal the hiding place of the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates,...

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    Daredevils of the West

    Daredevils of the West

    1 1943 HD

    A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.

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  • 1937
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    Vogues of 1938

    Vogues of 1938

    5.333 1937 HD

    An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too....

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    Sailor's Lady

    Sailor's Lady

    4 1940 HD

    Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is...

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    Rosalie

    Rosalie

    5.5 1937 HD

    West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

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    Free, Blonde and 21

    Free, Blonde and 21

    8 1940 HD

    Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.

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    Navy Blues

    Navy Blues

    4 1941 HD

    On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having...

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    Golden Hoofs

    Golden Hoofs

    7 1941 HD

    A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

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    You're in the Army Now

    You're in the Army Now

    3.6 1941 HD

    Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

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    Something to Shout About

    Something to Shout About

    5.8 1943 HD

    A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

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    Du Barry was a Lady

    Du Barry was a Lady

    6.1 1943 HD

    Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When...

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    The Girl from Avenue A

    The Girl from Avenue A

    1 1940 HD

    A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.

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    Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    6.6 1941 HD

    A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.

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