Kathlyn Williams — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
The charm of a delightful personality, an innate kindliness which makes itself felt at all times, coupled with splendid dramatic ability, have long since brought Kathlyn Williams to the pinnacle of her profession.
Kathlyn Williams was born in Butte, Mont. She was educated at Wesleyan University at Helena, and received her first dramatic training at the Empire School of Acting, in New York City. For four years or more she played leads in Mrs. Dane’s Defense, When We Were Twenty-One and other notable stage productions.
Her first picture experience was with the old Biograph company in a picture called “All Is Not Gold.” This was in February of 1910.
Her first stellar role was in “The Fire Chief’s Daughter,” in April of the same year. This was with the Selig Polyscope Company, where she attained screen fame, playing no less than 200 productions as lead, under the banner of the “Diamond S.”
Many of her vehicles easily will be recalled by hosts of admirers. She played Cherry in the famous Spoilers production, and starred in such notable productions as “The Ne’er Do Well.” But the film effort which made Miss Williams’ name a household word was the series, “The Adventures of Kathlyn.”
After six years of leads and heightening reputation at Selig’s [William Nicholas Selig], Miss Williams went to the Morosco studio [Oliver Morosco] to make “Out of the Wreck,” in 1916. From that date she appeared mostly in pictures for Famous Players-Lasky corporation. Among some of her best portrayals were those in The Whispering Chorus, “We Can’t Have Everything” and Forbidden Fruit; Clarence and “The World’s Applause,” William de Mille [William C. de Mille] productions. These pictures ranged from 1917 to 1923.
In private life Kathlyn Williams is the wife of Charles F. Eyton, general manager of the Lasky studio [Jesse L. Lasky] in Hollywood. One son by a former marriage, Victor Hugo Kainer, passed away at the age of seventeen only recently.
She is five feet, six inches in height, weighs 128 pounds and is a blonde with gray-blue eyes.
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Miss Williams never leaves California unless it is urgent. She enjoys her home, where from her door she ran look over Hollywood on the one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other.
After many years in California in the film industry, Kathlyn Williams, or Mrs. Charles Eyton, has realised her fondest ambition — to own a “house on the hill,” and this is the one of her choice.
Portrait by Carpenter • Los Angeles
Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)