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Doris Kenyon is a Actor American born on 3 september 1897 at Syracuse (USA)

Doris Kenyon

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Birth name Margaret Doris Kenyon
Nationality USA
Birth 3 september 1897 at Syracuse (USA)
Death 1 september 1979 (at 81 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American actress of motion pictures and television.

Biography

Ayant reçu une formation de chanteuse, Doris Kenyon débute au théâtre à Broadway (New York) dans l'opérette The Princess Pat , sur une musique de Victor Herbert, représentée de septembre 1915 à février 1916. Puis elle se produit à nouveau sur les planches new-yorkaises dans quatre pièces, entre 1919 et 1924. Elle joue également à Londres en 1935, dans la comédie musicale A Royal Exchange, aux côtés de Ramón Novarro.

La même année 1915 sort son premier film muet, The Rack d'Émile Chautard, avec Alice Brady et Milton Sills. Ce dernier devient en 1926 son premier époux et leur mariage prend fin à la mort brutale de l'acteur en 1930. Notons que tous deux se retrouvent dans six autres films muets, sortis de 1925 à 1928 (dont La Vallée des géants de Charles Brabin en 1927).

Au total, Doris Kenyon contribue pour le cinéma à soixante-cinq films américains, dont une quinzaine parlants (le premier étant Interference de Lothar Mendes et Roy Pomeroy, avec William Powell et Evelyn Brent, sorti en 1928).

Mentionnons également Monsieur Beaucaire de Sidney Olcott (1924, avec Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels et Lois Wilson), Jeune Amérique de Frank Borzage (1932, avec Spencer Tracy et Ralph Bellamy) et Voltaire de John G. Adolfi (1933, avec George Arliss dans le rôle-titre, elle-même personnifiant Madame de Pompadour). Son dernier film est L'Homme au masque de fer de James Whale (avec Louis Hayward et Joan Bennett), sorti en 1939, où elle interprète Anne d'Autriche.

Doris Kenyon se retire alors quasi-définitivement, mais réapparaît toutefois à la télévision, avec de brèves prestations dans deux séries, en 1954 (Schlitz Playhouse of Stars) et 1958 (77 Sunset Strip).

Usually with

George Arliss
George Arliss
(3 films)
Montagu Love
Montagu Love
(4 films)
Tony Gaudio
Tony Gaudio
(2 films)
Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Doris Kenyon (33 films)

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Actress

The Man in the Iron Mask, 1h47
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Politique, Political films, Histoire de France, Films about royalty
Actors Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Albert Dekker, Alan Hale
Roles Queen Anne
Rating69% 3.4962353.4962353.4962353.4962353.496235
The 1939 adaptation alters history significantly by making Fouquet (Joseph Schildkraut) a thoroughly evil, scheming mastermind. He, Colbert (Walter Kingsford), d'Artagnan (Warren William) and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silent. The main story was changed by portraying Louis XIV as selfish, cruel, and incompetent, and Philippe the kind-hearted brother who is raised by d'Artagnan and the musketeers and does not even know that he has an identical twin.
Girls' School, 1h12
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Anne Shirley, Nan Grey, Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Holden, Marjorie Main, Cecil Cunningham
Roles Mrs. Simpson
Rating58% 2.907372.907372.907372.907372.90737
The film revolves around wealthy high school teenagers who are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. One of the girls causes a scandal when she stays out all night, then announces on planning to elope with a boy. She gets in trouble when the faculty finds out through a monitor's report from a reluctant poor girl attending on scholarship.
Whom the Gods Destroy, 1h15
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Scotty Beckett, Rollo Lloyd
Roles Margaret Forrester
Rating72% 3.613373.613373.613373.613373.61337
Voltaire
Voltaire (1933)
, 1h12
Directed by John G. Adolfi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Philosophie, Histoire de France
Actors George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Alan Mowbray, Reginald Owen, Doris Lloyd
Roles Mme. Pompadour
Rating64% 3.238233.238233.238233.238233.23823
In pre-Revolutionary France, Voltaire champions the oppressed commoners and tries to warn King Louis XV (Reginald Owen) about the growing unrest among his subjects. The writer has a powerful ally in Madame Pompadour (Doris Kenyon), Louis' mistress, but the Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) opposes him for his own ends.
Counsellor at Law, 1h22
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Thelma Todd, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas
Roles Cora Simon
Rating74% 3.73673.73673.73673.73673.7367
The story focuses on several days in a critical juncture in the life of George Simon, who rose from his humble roots in a poor Jewish ghetto on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become a shrewd, highly successful attorney. Earlier in his career, he allowed a guilty client to perjure himself on the witness stand because he believed the man could be rehabilitated if freed. Rival lawyer Francis Clark Baird has learned about the incident and is threatening to expose George, which will lead to his disbarment. The possibility of a public scandal horrifies his socialite wife Cora, who plans to flee to Europe with Roy Darwin. Devastated by his wife's infidelity, George is about to leap from the window of his office in the Empire State Building when his secretary Regina, who is in love with him, comes to his rescue.
No Marriage Ties, 1h12
Directed by J. Walter Ruben, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan, Doris Kenyon, Alan Dinehart, Sr., David Landau, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Adrienne Deane
Rating59% 2.952332.952332.952332.952332.95233
This script must be run from the command line
Young America, 1h10
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon, Ralph Bellamy, Beryl Mercer, Anne Shirley, Sarah Padden
Roles Edith Doray
Rating63% 3.188793.188793.188793.188793.18879
Toujours en délicatesse avec le juge pour enfants, deux adolescents, Arthur et son ami Nutty, s'introduisent de nuit dans une pharmacie pour récupérer un médicament pour la grand-mère de Nutty. Sensible à la situation difficile de l'enfant, M Doray, la pharmacienne, propose de prendre en charge Arthur. Mais celui-ci s'enfuit pour ne pas compromettre le mariage de sa bienfaitrice. C'est alors qu'un vrai cambriolage a lieu dans la pharmacie…
The Man Called Back, 1h19
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Conrad Nagel, Doris Kenyon, John Halliday, Juliette Compton, Reginald Owen, Mona Maris
Roles Diana St. Claire
Rating59% 2.964492.964492.964492.964492.96449
A disgraced doctor (Nagel) exiles himself to the South Seas, and is rehabilitated by meeting a society woman (Kenyon) and her irresponsible husband (Halliday).
The Road to Singapore
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern, Alison Skipworth, Lumsden Hare
Roles Philippa Crosby March
Rating63% 3.1910153.1910153.1910153.1910153.191015
On an ocean liner from Colombo to Singapore, black sheep Hugh Dawltry tries, but fails to become better acquainted with fellow passenger Philippa Crosby. He is pleasantly surprised to find that they are both getting off at Khota. Ashore, she rebuffs his advances again, informing him that she has come to marry Dr. George March, Dawltry's neighbor.
Beau Bandit, 1h11
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Rod La Rocque, Mitchell Lewis, Doris Kenyon, Walter Long, Charles Middleton, Tom Keene
Roles Helen Wardell
Rating49% 2.464482.464482.464482.464482.46448
Montero is a bandit who, along with his deaf-mute sidekick, Coloso, are planning to rob a bank. They are pursued by "Bob Cat" Manners and his posse. As they close in on the bank, owned by Perkins, Montero becomes involved in the personal affairs of Helen Wardell and her fiancé, Howard. Perkins is also interested in Wardell, and he also holds the mortgage on Howard's ranch. Finding out that Montero has a price on his head, Perkins uses that fact to coerce Montero into agreeing to kill Howard. Perkins, however, has no intention of paying Montero, instead arranging for the posse to capture the outlaw.
The Hawk's Nest
Directed by Benjamin Christensen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Sōjin Kamiyama, Montagu Love, Mitchell Lewis, Stuart Holmes
Roles Madelon Arden

The title of The Hawk's Nest comes from the speakeasy around which most of the action revolves. Two bootleggers, played by Milton Sills and Mitchell Lewis, quarrel over a dancer (Doris Kenyon) while a political assassination plot.