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Katherine DeMille (29 June 1911 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – 27 April 1995 Tucson, Arizona, United States) was an Canadian-born film actress.

She was born as Katherine Lester and was orphaned following the death of her natural father during the Great War and her mother through tuberculosis in 1920. She was subsequently adopted by the film director Cecil B. DeMille and his wife Constance.

She entered the cinema as an uncredited Zeppelin Reveler in Madame Satan (1930) and made thirty film appearances until 1956.

She married the actor Anthony Quinn on 3 October 1937 and they had four children together. One of their sons was found drowned in the swimming pool of W.C. Fields aged three. She accepted the 1953 Academy Award for 'Best Actor' on behalf of her husband who was not present at the awards ceremony. They were divorced on 21st January 1965, following his affair with the costume designer Jolanda Addolori. She died from Alzheimer's disease in Arizona aged 83.

• Madame Satan (1930)
• Son of India (1931)
• Girls About Town (1931)
• All the King's Horses (1934)
• Viva Villa! (1934)
• The Trumpet Blows (1934)
• Belle of the Nineties (1934)
• The Black Room (1935)
• The Crusades (1935)
• Drift Fence (1936)
• Sky Parade (1936)
• Romeo and Juliet (1936)
• Ramona (1936)
• Banjo on My Knee (1936)
• Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
• The Californian (1937)
• Love Under Fire (1937)
• Under Suspicion (1937)
• Blockade (1938)
• Trapped in the Sky (1939)
• In Old Caliente (1939)
• Isle of Destiny (1940)
• Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)
• Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
• Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
• Black Gold (1947)
• Unconquered (1947)
• The Judge (1949)
• Man from Del Rio (1956)

• The Internet Movie Database

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