Kathleen Key

Known for ActingBorn 1903-04-01Died 1954-12-22Buffalo, New York, USA

From Wikipedia: Kathleen Key (April 1, 1903 – December 22, 1954) was an American actress who achieved a brief period of fame during the silent era. She is best remembered for playing Tirzah in the 1925 film Ben-Hur. Key was the great-great granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star Spangled Banner", and a distant cousin of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born Kitty Lanahan in Buffalo, New York, she debuted in films in 1920 in the film The Jackeroo of Coolabong, playing a lead role. From that point on to the end of the 1920s, Kathleen Key, sometimes credited as Kathleen Keys, starred in several films, but never really reached stardom, and was never given much credit for the roles she had, although there were some exceptions. In the early '20s, Key had a well-known love affair with silent-film actor Buster Keaton, who was married at the time. As told in Keaton's biography, the actor attempted to call off the relationship, but Key flew into a jealous rage and ransacked his MGM dressing room, which caused her to be virtually blacklisted afterward by the movie industry. It is also stated that Keaton refused to give Key a monetary loan. A telegram, sent by one of Keaton's friends who had heard about the argument, comically read: "Congratulations. Hear you are off Key." After her retirement in 1936, Keys spent the rest of her days in moderate comfort at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California, where she died at the age of 51 in 1954. Her interment was located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.Read more

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Irish Hearts

The Man from Brodney's

Bells of San Juan

Hey! Hey! Cowboy

The Trouble Shooter

Revelation

Hell's Hole

Reno

West of Chicago

The Jackeroo of Coolabong

The Phantom of the North

The Flaming Frontier

Under Western Skies

The Rendezvous

The Fighting Breed

The Rookie's Return

The Big Parade

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Sweeping Against the Winds

The Desert's Toll

A Lover's Oath

Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?

The Sea Hawk

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Klondike Annie

1925 Studio Tour

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North of Hudson Bay

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