Katherine DeMille

Birthday: 29 June 1911, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Birth Name: Katherine Lester

Height: 162 cm

Katherine DeMille was born on June 29, 1911 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada as Katherine Lester. She was an actress, known for Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937), The Crusades (1935) and Viva Villa! (1934). She was married to Anthony Quinn. She died on April 27, 1995 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Ever since I played charades and silly things like that as a child, I adored acting. When I went to ...Show more »

Ever since I played charades and silly things like that as a child, I adored acting. When I went to school in Santa Barbara I worked on all the amateur plays, Milne, Barrie, the usual Little Theatre stuff. I always had in mind acting as a profession. Show less «

It is only natural that I should have turned to pictures. Raised in a family that revolves around th...Show more »

It is only natural that I should have turned to pictures. Raised in a family that revolves around the picture business, and where, when reading newspapers, each member invariably jumps on the most dramatic incidents and reads them aloud, well, what else could I do? Show less «

[on showmanship] Look at my father [Cecil B. DeMille]. When he had a man follow him all over the set...Show more »

[on showmanship] Look at my father [Cecil B. DeMille]. When he had a man follow him all over the set with a chair so that he could sit without warning, he did it as a publicity gag. It hit every newspaper in the country. When he received people in a Gothic domed office, with atmosphere laid on a foot thick, he did it for effect. He's really a very shrewd man, a very clever man. He's no artificial poseur. He's a business man. And when he puts an elaborate bathroom scene in a picture he knows it will cause twice as much comment as anybody else's bathroom scene would cause. So he does it. That's showmanship. Show less «

Katherine DeMille

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