Katherine DeMille
Katherine DeMille (June 29, 1911 – April 27, 1995) was a Canadian-born American film actress.She was born Katherine Paula Lester in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was orphaned as a child by the death of her father, an officer in the Canadian Army who died in World War I combat and the loss of her mother to tuberculosis in 1920. When she was nine years old, she was found in an orphanage and legally adopted by film director Cecil B. DeMille and his wife Constance. She first appeared as an uncredited "Zeppelin Reveler" in Madame Satan (1930), and made thirty film appearances until retiring in 1956.
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Alias (AKA) | Lester Katherine Paula (birthname) |
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Birth date | June 29, 1911 |
Birth name | Katherine Paula Lester |
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Date of death | April 27, 1995 |
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