Kathleen Key

Kathleen Key

From Wikipedia: Kathleen Key (April 1, 1903 – December 22, 1954) was an American actress who achieved a brief period of fame during the silent era. She is best remembered for playing Tirzah in the 1925 film Ben-Hur. Key was the great-great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star Spangled Banner", and a distant cousin of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born Kitty Lanahan in Buffalo, New York, she debuted in films in 1920 in the film The Jackeroo of Coolabong, playing a lead role. From that point on to the end of the 1920s, Kathleen Key, sometimes credited as Kathleen Keys, starred in several films, but never really reached stardom, and was never given much credit for the roles she had, although there were some exceptions. In the early '20s, Key had a well-known love affair with silent-film actor Buster Keaton, who was married at the time. As told in Keaton's biography, the actor attempted to call off the relationship, but Key flew into a jealous rage and ransacked his MGM dressing room, which caused her to be virtually blacklisted afterward by the movie industry. It is also stated that Keaton refused to give Key a monetary loan. A telegram, sent by one of Keaton's friends who had heard about the argument, comically read: "Congratulations. Hear you are off Key." After her retirement in 1936, Keys spent the rest of her days in moderate comfort at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California, where she died at the age of 51 in 1954. Her interment was located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

  • Popularity : 0.899
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1903-04-01
  • Place of Birth : Buffalo, New York, USA
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Kathleen Key Movies

  • 1925
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    The Big Parade

    The Big Parade

    7.568 1925 HD

    The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two...

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  • 1930
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    Sweeping Against the Winds

    Sweeping Against the Winds

    1 1930 HD

    A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day...

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  • 1925
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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    7.3 1925 HD

    Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

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  • 1924
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    The Trouble Shooter

    The Trouble Shooter

    1 1924 HD

    Tom Mix, the most popular screen cowboy of his era, played a lineman for a power company in this action melodrama which was a Western in name only.

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  • 1926
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    The Flaming Frontier

    The Flaming Frontier

    6 1926 HD

    Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political...

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  • 1920
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    The Rookie's Return

    The Rookie's Return

    1 1920 HD

    A young soldier is discharged from the service and has trouble making a living. However, when he inherits a great deal of money, he finds his...

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  • 1922
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    Bells of San Juan

    Bells of San Juan

    1 1922 HD

    Rod Norton is a lawman searching for his father's killer. Norton suspects saloon owner Jim Garson but is lacking evidence. Garson's henchmen, the...

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  • 1923
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    Hell's Hole

    Hell's Hole

    1 1923 HD

    Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he...

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  • 1926
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    Under Western Skies

    Under Western Skies

    1 1926 HD

    Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter of an Oregon rancher. Bob goes to work as a...

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  • 1924
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    Revelation

    Revelation

    1 1924 HD

    Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings...

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  • 1927
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    Hey! Hey! Cowboy

    Hey! Hey! Cowboy

    1 1927 HD

    A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by a series of mystifying occurrences, and their...

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  • 1927
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    Irish Hearts

    Irish Hearts

    1 1927 HD

    Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him....

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  • 1923
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    The Man from Brodney's

    The Man from Brodney's

    1 1923 HD

    A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl...

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  • 1924
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    6.5 1924 HD

    The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.

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  • 1929
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    The Phantom of the North

    The Phantom of the North

    1 1929 HD

    In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the...

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  • 1923
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    Reno

    Reno

    1 1923 HD

    After obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has just divorced her husband. Left poor with two children,...

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  • 1922
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    Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

    Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

    1 1922 HD

    Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a...

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  • 1936
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    Klondike Annie

    Klondike Annie

    6.4 1936 HD

    A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.

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  • 1923
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    North of Hudson Bay

    North of Hudson Bay

    5.5 1923 HD

    On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. When he arrives at the Canadian...

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  • 1935
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    Thunder in the Night

    Thunder in the Night

    5.5 1935 HD

    Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a...

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  • 1925
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    1925 Studio Tour

    1925 Studio Tour

    6.2 1925 HD

    A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

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  • 1925
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    A Lover's Oath

    A Lover's Oath

    1 1925 HD

    "The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe"...

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  • 1921
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    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    6.6 1921 HD

    Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being...

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  • 1926
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    Money Talks

    Money Talks

    1 1926 HD

    Sam Starling (Owen Moore) is deep in debt, his wife Phoebe (Claire Windsor) is leaving him and still he is confident. When Phoebe boards a luxury...

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  • 1921
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    The Fighting Breed

    The Fighting Breed

    1 1921 HD

    A wealthy young Australian, the last of the "Fighting O'Farrells," decides to secretly work at his own farm in order to prove himself.

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  • 1926
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    The Desert's Toll

    The Desert's Toll

    1 1926 HD

    Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.

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  • 1922
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    West of Chicago

    West of Chicago

    1 1922 HD

    West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck Jones, Renée Adorée and Philo...

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  • 1923
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    The Rendezvous

    The Rendezvous

    1 1923 HD

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