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Voltaire
(1933) Production Line: Warner Bros. Director: John G. Adolfi Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio File Editor: Owen Marks Run Time: 72 minutes Interpreters : George Arliss: Voltaire Doris Kenyon: Madame de Pompadour Margaret Lindsay: Nanette Calas Theodore Newton: Francois Reginald Owen: King Louis XV Alan Mowbray: Count de Sarnac David Torrence: Doctor Gordon Westcott : The Captain Murray Kinnell: Emile Doris Lloyd: Mme. Clairon Ivan Simpson: Lekain Douglas Trumbrille: Oriental King |
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Doris Kenyon (1897 - 1979) Biography American actress Doris Kenyon was the daughter of well-to-do writer and publisher James B. Kenyon, the editor of The Standard Dictionary and one-time protege of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. While attending an Authors Club meeting with her father, 16-year-old Doris was invited to sing; she so impressed one of the guests, composer Victor Herbert, that she was cast in Herbert's stage musical Princess Pat. In 1916, one year after her stage debut, Kenyon entered films with The Hidden Hand. A pretty ingenue who matriculated into an interesting if not outstanding actress, Kenyon did quite well in silent films, at one point costarring with Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. In 1927, she married Milton Sills, a major star with whom Kenyon had first appeared in The Rack (1916); Sills and his wife appeared together in seven films, all of them moneymakers. Kenyon was playing tennis with Milton in 1930 when he suddenly was felled by a fatal heart attack. She was disconsolate and planned retirement, but was talked out of it by actor George Arliss, who arranged for Kenyon to have strong co-starring roles in his films Alexander Hamilton (1931) and Voltaire (1933). No longer a romantic leading lady, Kenyon had matured enough to convincingly play John Barrymore's truculent society-climbing wife in Counsellor at Law (1933). The actress yearned at this point to return to her singing career (she had, after all, appeared with the Metropolitan Opera at one point in the teens); while retraining her voice, she began writing magazine articles for women's magazines, a venture which proved successful. Rounding out her film career with Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Kenyon spent the war years singing with the USO and lecturing to women's clubs. Doris Kenyon was almost completely retired the last quarter century of her life, appearing only in a handful of TV shows as favors to her show-business friends; one such friend was Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who in 1958 cast Kenyon as a Norma Desmond-type faded star desperate for a comeback on 77 Sunset Strip. Now that program REALLY required the delightfully non-desperate Doris Kenyon to put on an act! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide |
Filmography (by Internet Movie Database)
Hollywood On Cayuga (1990) (archive footage) Prudence Martling-Great White Trail Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939) - Queen Anne Girls' School (1938) - Mrs. Simpson Along Came Love (1936) - Mrs. Gould Human Side, The (1934) - Vera Sheldon Whom the Gods Destroy (1934) - Margaret Forrester Counsellor at Law (1933) - Cora Simon No Marriage Ties (1933) - Adrienne Deane aka Public Be Sold, The (1933) Voltaire (1933) - Madame de Pompadour Man Called Back, The (1932) - Dianna St. Clair Young America (1932) - Edith Doray aka We Humans (1932) (UK) Ruling Voice, The (1931) - Mary Stanton aka Upper Underworld (1931) Road to Singapore, The (1931) - Phillippa Crosby 'Phil' March Alexander Hamilton (1931) - Mrs. Hamilton Bargain, The (1931) - Nancy Beau Bandit (1930) - Helen Wardell Interference (1928) - Faith Marlay Home Towners, The (1928) - Beth Calhoun Hawk's Nest, The (1928) - Madelon Arden Burning Daylight (1928) - The Virgin Valley of the Giants, The (1927) - Shirley Pennington Blonde Saint, The (1926) - Ghirlaine Bellamy Ladies at Play (1926) - Ann Harper aka Loose Ankles (1926) Mismates (1926) - Judy Winslow Men of Steel (1926) - Mary Berwick Unguarded Hour, The (1925) - Virginia Gilbert Half-Way Girl, The (1925) - Poppy La Rue I Want My Man (1925) - Vida If I Marry Again (1925) - Jocelyn Margot Thief in Paradise, A (1925) - Helen Saville Idle Tongues (1924) - Katherine Minot Born Rich (1924) - Frances Melrose Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) - Lady Mary Lend Me Your Husband (1924) - Aline Stackton New School Teacher, The (1924) - Diana Love Bandit, The (1924) - Amy Van Clayton Restless Wives (1924) - Polly Benson Last Moment, The (1923) - Alice Winthrop You Are Guilty (1923) - Alice Farrell Bright Lights of Broadway (1923) - Irene Marley Sure-Fire Flint (1922) - June De Lanni Ruling Passion, The (1922) - Angie Alden Shadows of the Sea (1922) - Dorothy Jordan Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921) - Fannie Jasper Conquest of Canaan, The (1921) - Ariel Taber Harvest Moon, The (1920) - Dora Fullerton Bandbox, The (1919) - Eleanor Searle Twilight (1919) - Twilight Wild Honey (1918) - Wild Honey/Mrs. Holbrook Inn of the Blue Moon, The (1918) - Justine Druce/Dorothy Druce Street of Seven Stars, The (1918) - Harmony Wells Jimmy Dale Alias the Great Seal (1917) On Trial (1917) (uncredited) Great White Trail (1917) - Prudence Carrington Empress, The (1917) - Nedra Girl's Folly, A (1917) - Mary Baker Man Who Forgot, The (1917) - Edith Mallon Rack, The (1916) - Effie McKenzie Traveling Salesman, The (1916) - Beth Elliot Ocean Waif, The (1916) - Millie Jessup, the Ocean Waif Man Who Stood Still, The (1916) - Marie Krauss Feast of Life, The (1916) - Celida Pawn of Fate (1916) - Marcine Dufrene |
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