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词条 Karen Morley
释义

  1. Life and career

  2. Personal life

  3. Death

  4. Partial filmography

  5. References

  6. External links

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| caption = publicity photo (1934)
| birth_name = Mildred Linton
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| birth_place = Ottumwa, Iowa, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2003|03|08|1909|12|12}}
| death_place = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = UCLA
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{{marriage|Lloyd Gough
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| children = 2
| occupation = Actress
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Karen Morley (born Mildred Linton, December 12, 1909 – March 8, 2003[1]) was an American film actress.

Life and career

Born in Ottumwa, Iowa,[1] Morley lived there until she was 13 years old. When she moved to Hollywood, she attended Hollywood High School[2] and later graduated from UCLA.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}

After working at the Pasadena Playhouse,[2] she came to the attention of the director Clarence Brown, at a time when he had been looking for an actress to stand-in for Greta Garbo in screen tests. This led to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and roles in such films as Mata Hari (1931), Scarface (1932), The Phantom of Crestwood (1932), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), Arsene Lupin (1933), Gabriel Over the White House (1933), and Dinner at Eight (1933).

In 1934, Morley left MGM after arguments about her roles and her private life.{{fact|date=May 2018}} Her first film after leaving the studio was Our Daily Bread (1934), directed by King Vidor. She continued to work as a freelance performer, and appeared in Michael Curtiz's Black Fury, and The Littlest Rebel with Shirley Temple. Without the support of a studio, her roles became less frequent, however she did play Mr. Collins' wife Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice (1940), which was produced by MGM. The film was critically well-received, but it did not advance her career; as a result, Morley turned her attention to stage plays.

In the early 1940s, she appeared in several plays on Broadway, including as Gerda in the original production of The Walrus and The Carpenter.

Her career came to an end in 1947, when she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused to answer questions about her alleged American Communist Party membership. She maintained her political activism for the rest of her life. In 1954, she ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the American Labor Party ticket.[1]

After being blacklisted in Hollywood by the studio bosses, she was never able to rebuild her acting career.

In the early 1970s, Karen Morley briefly resumed her acting career with guest roles in television series such as Kojak, Kung Fu, and Police Woman.

In 1993, she appeared in The Great Depression, a documentary TV series produced by Henry Hampton's Blackside Productions in association with BBC2 and WGBH. In the series, she talked about how helpless she felt as a privileged Hollywood actress in the face of all the poverty and suffering that surrounded her. She also spoke of her experience making Our Daily Bread and working for King Vidor, whom she described as a conservative who thought that people should willingly help each other without government interference.

In December 1999, at the age of 90, she appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in an article about blacklist survivors and was honored at the San Francisco FIlm Festival.[3]

Personal life

Morley was married to director Charles Vidor from 1932 until 1943.[1] They met on the set of Man About Town, in which Morley played the female lead, and Vidor was co-director. Vidor and Morley had a son, Michael Karoly, who was born in August 1933. Morley and Vidor were divorced in 1943. Later that year she married the actor Lloyd Gough. They had one child together. They were married until Gough's death in 1984.{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}

Death

Morley lived in Santa Monica, California, during her later years. She died of pneumonia at the age of 93 in Woodland Hills, California, and was survived by two grandsons, a great-grandson, and a great-granddaughter.[4]

Partial filmography

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  • Thru Different Eyes (1929) - Bit Part (uncredited)
  • Inspiration (1931) - Liane Latour
  • Strangers May Kiss (1931) - Dining Companion (uncredited)
  • Daybreak (1931) - Emily Kessner
  • Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931) - Maisie
  • Laughing Sinners (1931) - Estelle Seldon (photo in newspaper) (uncredited)
  • Politics (1931) - Myrtle Burns
  • High Stakes (1931) - Anne Cornwall
  • The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) - Alice
  • The Cuban Love Song (1931) - Crystal
  • Mata Hari (1931) - Carlotta
  • Arsene Lupin (1932) - Sonia
  • Are You Listening? (1932) - Alice Grimes
  • Scarface (1932) - Poppy
  • The Man About Town (1932) - Helena
  • The Washington Masquerade (1932) - Consuela Fairbanks
  • Downstairs (1932) - Karl's New Employer (uncredited)
  • The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) - Jenny Wren
  • The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) - Sheila Barton
  • Flesh (1932) - Laura Nash
  • Gabriel Over the White House (1933) - Pendola Molloy
  • Dinner at Eight (1933) - Mrs. Lucy Talbot
  • The Crime Doctor (1934) - Andra
  • Our Daily Bread (1934) - Mary Sims
  • Straight Is the Way (1934) - Bertha
  • Wednesday's Child (1934) - Kathryn Phillips
  • Black Fury (1935) - Anna Novak
  • $10 Raise (1935) - Emily Converse
  • The Healer (1935) - Evelyn Allen
  • Thunder in the Night (1935) - Madalaine
  • The Littlest Rebel (1935) - Mrs. Cary
  • Devil's Squadron (1936) - Martha Dawson
  • Beloved Enemy (1936) - Cathleen O'Brien
  • Outcast (1937) - Margaret Stevens
  • The Girl from Scotland Yard (1937) - Linda Beech
  • The Last Train from Madrid (1937) - Baroness Helene Rafitte
  • On Such a Night (1937) - Gail Stanley
  • Kentucky (1938) - Mrs. Goodwin - 1861
  • Pride and Prejudice (1940) - Mrs. Collins
  • Jealousy (1945) - Dr. Monica Anderson
  • The Unknown (1946) - Rachel Martin Arnold
  • The Thirteenth Hour (1947) - Eileen Blair
  • Framed (1947) - Beth
  • Samson and Delilah (1949) - (uncredited)
  • M (1951) - Mrs. Coster
  • Born to the Saddle (1953) - Kate Daggett
{{div col end}}

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Harris M., III |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |date=2004 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786452088 |page=280 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXrGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA280&dq=%22Mildred+Linton%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji7OCMl7ncAhVPiqwKHYzRDR8Q6AEIQTAE#v=onepage&q=%22Mildred%20Linton%22&f=false |accessdate=25 July 2018 |language=en}}
2. ^{{cite news |last1=Scheuer |first1=Philip K. |title=Karen Morley's Honesty Makes Her 'Black Sheep' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22204362/karen_morley/ |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=December 11, 1932 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=48|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = July 25, 2018}} {{Open access}}
3. ^https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/21/guardianobituaries.film
4. ^https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/apr/21/guardianobituaries.film
  • The Gettysburg Times, Discovered, November 3, 1932, Page 7.
  • Los Angeles Times, Karen Morley, 93, A Movie Star Until a Congressional Hearing, April 27, 2003, Page N47.
  • {{Cite book

| last = McGilligan
| first = Patrick and Paul Buhle
| title = Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist
| publisher = St. Martin's Press
| year = 1997
| isbn = 0-312-17046-7 }}
  • Oakland Tribune, One Star's Family, September 9, 1935, Page 68.

External links

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  • {{IMDb name|id=0605904|name=Karen Morley}}
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  • Photographs of Karen Morley
  • {{Find a Grave|7368985}}
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