Kathleen Lockhart was an English-born stage actress.

She was born Kathleen Arthur in Southsea, Hampshire in England. An actress and musician, Kathleen got her start on the stage in England and then immigrated to the United States in 1924, upon her marriage to Canadian-born actor Gene Lockhart. She continued to appear on stage and in Hollywood films for almost forty years. Kathleen and her husband, Gene, occasionally starred opposite each other, most notably as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. After her husband died in 1957, she retired from acting and made no more film appearances, except for a small role in The Purple Gang. She was the mother of actress June Lockhart and grandmother of actress Anne Lockhart.

She died on February 18, 1978 in Los Angeles, California following a long illness.

Kathryn Grayson was an American actress and operatic soprano singer.

From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to MGM by the early 1940s, soon establishing a career principally through her work in musicals. After several supporting roles, she was a lead performer in such films as Anchors Aweigh with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, and Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate. When film musical production declined, she worked in theatre, appearing in Camelot. Later in the decade, she performed in several operas, including La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La Traviata.

She was born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the daughter of Charles E. Hedrick and Lillian Grayson Hedrick. Charles was a building contractor-realtor.

Katy Jurado, born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was the first Mexican National actress to be nominated for an Academy Award.

María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García was born in Guadalajara, México into a wealthy family. Her father was descended from Spaniards from Andalucía, where she inherited her andalucian features from her grandfather. She moved with her family to Mexico City in 1927. She studied journalism before marrying Mexican actor Victor Velázquez, whom she divorced in 1943. While working as a journalist she caught the attention of director Emilio Fernandez who offered her a role in the film La Isla de la Pasión, but she declined the invitation.

Jurado began acting in Mexican films starting in 1943, with the movie No Matarás. Her very particular features were the key of her notable success. During her early years in the Mexican cinema she appeared with stars like Carmen Montejo, Maria Elena Marques, David Silva and others. In 1945, she had her first success with the film Balajú. In 1948, her performance in Nosotros Los Pobres, opposite the well-known Mexican actor Pedro Infante, brought her fame. She worked with Infante once again in El Seminarista. In 1951, she starred in Cárcel de Mujeres, with the Spanish star Sara Montiel. Despite her notable Hollywood success in the early 1950s, Jurado continued with some performances in Mexico. In 1953 she starred in the Luis Buñuel’s box-office success El Bruto.

In the 1960s she returned to Mexican cinema with La Bandida with María Félix. During the 1970s, Jurado realized some of her most memorable performances in movies like Fé, Esperanza y Caridad, Los Albañiles, the Mexican-American production The Children of Sanchez with Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Río and La Seducción, directed by Arturo Ripstein.

Kay Francis was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress. Some of her film related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives.

Francis was born Katharine Edwina Gibbs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1905. Her parents, Joseph Sprague Gibbs and his actress wife Katharine Clinton Francis, were married on December 3, 1903 in New York City at the Church of the Transfiguration, and they moved to Oklahoma City the following year. But, by the time Katharine was four, her father had left.

Joseph Gibbs, who stood 6?4?, gave his daughter the gift of height?she was one of Hollywood’s tallest leading ladies in the 1930s, along with Alexis Smith and Ingrid Bergman,

While she never discouraged rumors that her mother, Katharine Gibbs, was a pioneering businesswoman who established the “Katharine Gibbs” chain of vocational schools, Francis was actually raised in the hardscrabble theatrical circuit of the period. Her mother was actually a moderately successful actress and singer, who used the stage name “Katharine Clinton.”