Description: Up for auction "Madame Satan" Katherine DeMille Hand Signed 3X5 Card. ES-9982 Katherine DeMille (June 29, 1911 – April 27, 1995) was a Canadian-born American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s. DeMille was born Katherine Paula Lester in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her father, Edward Gabriel Lester, was a Scottish schoolteacher who served as a lieutenant in the 102nd Battalion, CEF during World War I and died at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917. Her mother, Cecile Bianca Bertha Colani, was of Italian descent and died in a Los Angeles hospital. When she was eight years old, she was found in an orphanage by Constance Adams DeMille, the wife of producer and director Cecil B. DeMille. The DeMilles adopted Katherine, their third child, in 1922. DeMille gained experience on stage in 1930 "by acting as understudy for the feminine 'heavy' of the play Rebound" in San Francisco. She first appeared on screen as an uncredited "Zeppelin Reveler" in Madame Satan (1930). She made thirty film appearances until retiring in 1956. DeMille married actor Anthony Quinn on October 2, 1937 at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills.[6] They had five children: Christopher (1939-1941), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952).[7] Their first child, Christopher, was found drowned in the lily pond of W.C. Fields at age two. Her brother, Richard de Mille, said: "I was wild about Katherine. She was extremely lovable and beautiful, a terrific combination. Was she ill-used by Quinn? Absolutely, but not in a way that she resented. She was always in love with him. Cecil had respected Constance and always treated her fairly; I don't think Quinn treated Katherine fairly." DeMille accepted the 1953 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on behalf of her husband, who was not present at the ceremony.[10] At the same ceremony, her father received the Academy Award for Best Picture for his film The Greatest Show on Earth. A December 8, 1964, newspaper article says that Quinn sued DeMille for divorce in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and "listed incompatibility in the suit as grounds for divorce." They were divorced on January 21, 1965.
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