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KATHRYN McGUIRE
NIVERSALLY recognized by critics and the public alike as one of the coming players in screenland, Kathryn McGuire was one of those selected by the Western Motion Picture Advertisers as one of the "stars of tomorrow."
She was born on December 6, 1903, in Peoria, 111., in a family of which no member had ever been in the theatrical profession. At a very early age her
folks moved to Aurora and later to Chicago. She gained her education at the Jennings Seminary at Aurora, remaining there even after her family had left that city, and by the time Kathryn graduated the family was ready to move to California, where they arrived when she was about fourteen years of age. Even as a very young girl Kathryn's ambitions were entirely terpsichorean, and she has studied faithfully under the leading ballet masters on the West Coast since coming out here. Even now when all her time is taken up with her motion picture work and she has definitely decided to pursue her life career in this field, she keeps up her dancing.
While she was attending the Hollywood, High School — and studying her dancing at the same time — she participated in a program exhibition at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena. One of the spectators was Thomas H. Ince, who immediately engaged her to do a solo number in a production he was making with Dorothy Dalton at the
Kathryn McGuire at home with her mother and sister.
time. Miss McGuire's dancing for this film led to similar engagements not only at the Ince studios but also for Universal and Mack Sennett. It was while she was at this latter studio doing a number for one of the comedies Sennett was producing that he saw her work and realized the capabilities she possesses along acting lines.
Her first serious role was as the only girl in "The Silent Call." Next came the part of the featured ingenue in "The Crossroads of New York," and this was followed by the second lead with Gladys Walton in "Playing With Fire" for Universal. More recently Kathryn McGuire worked with Priscilla Dean as a second lead in "That Lass o' Lowries," and also with Clara Kimball Young in "The Woman in Bronze." "The Shriek of Araby," a five-reel Sennett comedy, is one in which she is co-featured with Ben Turpin.
Miss McGuire is five feet, four inches in height, about 120 pounds in weight, with light brown hair and hazel eyes.
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