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(September 5, 1897 – September 1,
1979) was a star of motion pictures and television.
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grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805
Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist
Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at
Packer College Institute and later at Columbia University. She sang
in the choirs of Grace Presbyterian and Bushwick Methodist Churches
in Brooklyn, New York.
Her voice attracted the attention of Broadway theatrical scouts who
enticed her to become a performer on the stage. She first appeared
in the Victor Herbert operetta Princess Pat.
In 1917 she made her first film, A Girl's Folly, with World Film
Company of Fort Lee, New Jersey. One of the most remembered films of
her early career is Monsieur Beaucaire (1924). In this production
she starred opposite Rudolph Valentino.
She was with Paramount Pictures for the studio's first dramatic,
all-talking movie, Intereference, in 1928. This pairing with William
Powell followed her appearance in The Thief of Paradise (1928), with
Ronald Colman.
Kenyon was cast opposite actor George Arliss in three films. These
are Alexander Hamilton (1931), Voltaire (1933), and Whom The Gods
Destroy (1934). She particpated in Counsellor at Law (1933) with
John Barrymore. In the autumn of 1935 Doris appeared with Ramon
Navarro in the play, A Royal Miscarriage, in London, England, in the
fall of 1935.
After fifty movies, Kenyon's picture career ended with a cameo in
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939).
Kenyon continued her acting career in television in the 1950s. She
was cast in episodes of The Secret Storm (1954), Schlitz Playhouse
of Stars, All Our Yesterdays (1958), and 77 Sunset Strip. |
