Kay Aldridge

Katharine ("Kay") Gratten Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American actress and model, best known for playing feisty and imperiled heroines in black-and-white serials during the 1940s. Life and work Aldridge was born on July 9, 1917, in Tallahassee, Florida. Her father was a surveyor and her mother was an artist and writer. Following her father's death when she was two years old, her mother moved the family to Lyells, Virginia, where she and her four siblings were raised with the help of her great aunts, who were schoolteachers.

Following her high-school graduation in 1934, Aldridge found work with the John Powers modeling agency in New York.

Aldridge was married three times: to Arthur Cameron from 1945 to 1954, to Richard Derby Tucker from 1956 until his death in 1979, and lastly to Harry Nasland from 1982 until his death in 1983. In her later years she lived in Camden, Maine, and was a locally renowned hostess.

Aldridge died of a heart attack on January 12, 1995, in Rockport, Maine.

Filmography

Vogues of 1938 (1937) - Katherine (uncredited) Rosalie (1937) - Lady in Waiting (uncredited) Hotel for Women (1939) - Melinda Craig Here I Am a Stranger (1939) - Lillian Bennett Free, Blonde and 21 (1940) - Adelaide Sinclair Shooting High (1940) - Evelyn Trent Girl in 313 (1940) - Sarah Sorrell Sailor's Lady (1940) - Georgine Girl from Avenue A (1940) - Lucy Yesterday's Heroes (1940) - Janice Mason Down Argentine Way (1940) - Helen Carson Golden Hoofs (1941) - Cornelia Hunt Dead Men Tell (1941) - Laura Thursday Navy Blues (1941) - Navy Blues Sextette Member #1 Louisiana Purchase (1941) - Louisiana Belle You're in the Army Now (1941) - Navy Blues Sextette Member #1 The Playgirls (1941, Short) - Sextette Member Perils of Nyoka (1942) - Nyoka Gordon The Falcon's Brother (1942) - Victory Gown Model (uncredited) Something to Shout About (1943) - Show Girl (uncredited) Daredevils of the West (1943) - June Foster DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) - Mrs. McGowan (uncredited) Haunted Harbor (1944) - Patricia Harding The Man Who Walked Alone (1945) - Wilhelmina Hammond The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945) - Claudia Moore (final film role)