Biografia

Kay Linaker

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Nascido(a) em
19 de julho de 1913 · Pine Bluff, Arkansas, EUA
Falecido(a) em
18 de abril de 2008 · Keene, New Hampshire, EUA (insuficiência cardíaca)
Nome de nascimento
Mary Katherine Linaker
Apelido
- Kate

Appears as herself discussing Charlie Chan em Monte Carlo (1937) in Charlie Chan Is Missing: The Last Days of Warner Oland (2007), a documentary featurette included in the third Charlie Chan DVD collection, released 2007.
Taught screen-writing at Keene State College in New Hampshire until her retirement in 2005 at age 90 plus. She earned the distinction at one point of being the oldest college professor of New England.
Taught College Screenwriting, Acting for the Screen and the Golden Age of Hollywood to Melanie Cunningham.
Became a member of the Screen Actors Guild in late 1935.
Has two children, a son Bill and a daughter Regina.

[on Ases Negros (1937)] The only B-Western I ever made was "Black Aces". It was a good part as parts in Westerns went . . . I did more than watch the hero ride off into the sunset. I actually crossed the Kern River on the old swing bridge. No one told me the weight of my body forced the boards to rise to meet my feet with each step. With the wind swinging the bridge from side to side, looking down at the Kern River 40 feet below boiling over the rocks, holding my hat on my head--I had just taken it from one of the "heavies" and it had no chin strap--and hanging onto the handhold cable . . . it was the longest block and a half I ever walked. Buck Jones was furious with the director [Lesley Selander[. As a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, Les' credit does not appear on the crawl. The stunt girl, Aline Goodwin, was furious. She was done out of a fat fee and felt it absolutely cruel to put me through such trauma. I heartily agreed-but the scene is effective. Buck Jones was one of God's good gentlemen and an honor to the motion picture business.
[on Romeu a Cavalo (1940)] Mark Sandrich was a gifted director and Jack Benny a fine gentleman. Jack was terrified of horses. When we did the runaway scenes on the mechanical horses we both got desperately seasick. In spite of my good scenes that ended on the cutting room floor, the picture was one of the most enjoyable I ever made. If ever an actor earned a halo as a human being, that person was Jack Benny.