About Kathryn Adams Doty
Lived 1920 – 2016 (aged 96). Kathryn Adams Doty was an American actor, psychologist, novelist, writer and film actor.
Kathryn Elizabeth Doty (née Hohn; July 15, 1920 – October 14, 2016), also known by her stage name Kathryn Adams or as Kathryn Adams Doty, was an American actress, novelist and psychologist.
Early life and education The daughter of a Methodist minister, Dr. Chris G. Hohn, Doty was born in New Ulm, Minnesota. When she was six, when an opportunity for an acting career arose. She competed in 1939 in the national finals of the Jesse L. Lasky radio contest Gateway to Hollywood, received a contract, One of her more notable roles was as Mrs. Brown, the young mother in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). She co-starred in Sky Raiders (1941), a film serial from Universal Pictures, and had the leading lady role in three Western films in which Johnny Mack Brown starred.
She earned a master's degree in educational psychology and had a career as a medical practitioner, working at the Footlight's Child Guidance Clinic at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and later in Minnesota after she moved back to her home state.
Death Adams died on October 14, 2016, aged 96, in an assisted living facility in Mankato, Minnesota.
Partial filmography
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) - Katherine Borden That's Right—You're Wrong (1939) - Mrs. Elizabeth Ralston (uncredited) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Fleur's Companion Millionaire Playboy (1940) - Betty (uncredited) If I Had My Way (1940) - Miss Corbett Ski Patrol (1940) - Lissa Ryder Love, Honor, and Oh-Baby! (1940) - Susan Black Diamonds (1940) - Linda Connor Argentine Nights (1940) - Carol Spring Parade (1940) - Girl with Fortune Teller (uncredited) The Invisible Woman (1940) - Peggy Meet the Chump (1941) - Gloria Mitchell Nice Girl? (1941) - Bride (uncredited) Bury Me Not on the Prairie (1941) - Dorothy Walker Sky Raiders (1941) - Mary Blake Model Wife (1941) - Salesgirl (uncredited) Bachelor Daddy (1941) - Eleanore Pierce, aka Jane Smith Rawhide Rangers (1941) - Jo Ann Rawlings Unfinished Business (1941) - Katy Arizona Cyclone (1941) - Elsie Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Girl (uncredited) Junior G-Men of the Air (1942) - Grace - Bolt's Girl [Chs. 1, 7] (uncredited) Saboteur (1942) - Young Mother You're Telling Me (1942) - Girl (uncredited) Blonde for a Day (1946) - Phyllis Hamilton (final film role)
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actress, psychologist, writer (1920-2016)
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Kathryn Adams Doty was born on 15 July 1920 in New Ulm.
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Kathryn Adams Doty died on 14 October 2016 in Mankato.
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Kathryn Adams Doty was an actor, psychologist, novelist, writer and film actor.
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