Kate Price (actress)
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| Born | Katherine Duffy February 13, 1872 Cork, Ireland |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Woodland Hills, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1890–1937 |
Kate Price (February 13, 1872 – January 4, 1943) was an Irish-born American actress. She is known 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.
Career
She was born Katherine Duffy in Cork, 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 stars 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.[1]
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.
Death
Price died at age 70 at the Motion Picture Country Home, Woodland Hills.[2] Funeral services were held at St. Theresa's Church with interment in Calvary Cemetery.[3][4]
Selected filmography
- Her Crowning Glory (1911)
- All for a Girl (1912)
- One Can't Always Tell (1913)
- A Million Bid (1914)
- Bringing Up Father (1915)
- The Waiters' Ball (1916)
- A Maid to Order (1916)
- Twin Flats (1916)
- A Warm Reception (1916)
- Pipe Dreams (1916)
- Mother's Child (1916)
- Prize Winners (1916)
- The Guilty Ones (1916)
- He Winked and Won (1916)
- Fat and Fickle (1916)
- The Boycotted Baby (1917)
- Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
- Arizona (1918)
- Love (1919)
- That Girl Montana (1921)
- My Wife's Relations (1922)
- Flesh and Blood (1922)
- Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)
- Enemies of Children (1923)
- The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
- The Unchastened Woman (1925)
- The Perfect Clown (1925)
- Paradise (1926)
- The Third Degree (1926)
- Frisco Sally Levy (1927)
- Two Weeks Off (1929)
References
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- Kate Price at the Internet Movie Database
- Kate Price in a 1927 film(Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection)
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- ↑ Wes D. Gehring, Laurel & Hardy: a bio-bibliography, page 10
- ↑ California State Death Index, Name: Katherine Duffy Ludwig, Birth Date: 02-13-1872, Mother's Maiden: Steele, Father's Last: Duffy, Sex: Female, Death Place: Los Angeles Co. (19), Death Date: 01-04-1943, Age: 70 yrs.
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 1943, "Kate Price of Cohens and Kellys Fame, Dies at 70," p. 6
- ↑ New York Times, Jan. 6, 1943, "Kate Price," p. 25
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- 1872 births
- 1943 deaths
- Irish film actresses
- American film actresses
- American silent film actresses
- 19th-century American actresses
- American stage actresses
- 20th-century American actresses
- People from Cork (city)
- 19th-century Irish people
- Vaudeville performers
- Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
- Burials at Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
- 20th-century Irish actresses
