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Catherine Townsend “Kay” Johnson (November 29, 1904 – November 17, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Johnson was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Cecil B. DeMille following a performance of The Silver Cord at the Repertory Theater in Los Angeles, California. The play was produced by Simeon Gest of the Figueroa Playhouse. Her film debut came in Dynamite (1929), written by Jeanie Macpherson and featuring Charles Bickford and Conrad Nagel. Production was delayed while Johnson recovered from an appendectomy.
She went on to appear in The Ship from Shanghai (1930), This Mad World (1930), Billy the Kid (1930), The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper and Betty Compson, DeMille’s Madam Satan (1930), Passion Flower (1930), Capra’s American Madness (1932), Thirteen Women (1932), Of Human Bondage (which starred Leslie Howard and Bette Davis), Jalna (1935) and Mr. Lucky (1943). Johnson was cast opposite Warner Baxter in a screen adaptation of Such Men Are Dangerous by Elinor Glyn. The story was adapted to the screen by Fox Film.
Johnson’s final film appearance came in the 1954 British film Jivaro (also known as Lost Treasure of the Amazon).
Kay Johnson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Kay Johnson |
| Also Know | Catherine Townsend Johnson |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Mount Vernon, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1904-11-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 70 |
| Deathday | 1975-11-17 |
Kay Johnson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Madam Satan | Angela Brooks | 1930-09-20 | Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper class couple. Bob is an unfaithful husband. Angela has a plan to win back his affections…. |
| This Mad World | Victoria | 1930-04-11 | Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is … |
| Jalna | Alayne Whiteoaks | 1935-08-09 | A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm…. |
| The Spy | Anna Turin | 1931-04-26 | 1931 picture starring Kay Johnson…. |
| Village Tale | Janet Stevenson | 1935-06-15 | The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy…. |
| Dynamite | Cynthia Crothers | 1929-12-13 | Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will … |
| Passion Flower | Katherine Pringle Wallace ‘Cassy’ | 1930-12-06 | A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur…. |
| The Single Sin | Kate Adams | 1931-02-23 | A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with … |
| The Spoilers | Helen Chester | 1930-09-20 | On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and … |
| American Madness | Phyllis Dickson | 1932-08-15 | Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank… |
| Billy the Kid | Claire | 1930-10-18 | Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan’s henchmen for killing Billy’s boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garr… |
| Eight Girls in a Boat | Hannah | 1934-01-05 | In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers she is going to have a baby, and keeps the secret from everyone but her lover, D… |
| Of Human Bondage | Norah | 1934-07-20 | Club-footed medical school student Philip Carey falls in love with cynical waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him and runs off with a salesman, late… |
| This Man Is Mine | Bee McCrae | 1934-04-13 | The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits…. |
| The Ship from Shanghai | Dorothy Daley | 1930-01-31 | On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control…. |
| Their Big Moment | Eve Farrington | 1934-08-17 | Early ’30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder…. |
| Thirteen Women | Helen Dawson Frye | 1932-09-16 | Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive are not good for any of them…. |
| The Real Glory | Mrs. Mabel Manning | 1939-09-29 | In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost. Infested with cholera and under… |
| White Banners | Marcia Ward | 1938-06-23 | A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook … |
| Mr. Lucky | Mrs. Mary Ostrander | 1943-07-01 | A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him…. |
| Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Helena | 1942-01-29 | Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While h… |
| Jivaro | Umari | 1954-02-12 | At Rio Galdez’s remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed … |
| Hellzapoppin’ | Lena – Lady Looking for Oscar | 1941-12-25 | Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth… |
| Call of the Wild | Show Girl (uncredited) | 1935-08-09 | Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck… |
Credit: TMDB
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