Catherine Dale Owen

Born: 1900-07-25

From Wikipedia Catherine Dale Owen was an American stage and film actress. Dale was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a prominent Kentucky family. She attended private school in Philadelphia and Bronxville, New York before attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. First discovered by Laura MacGillivray, the wife of Actors Equity president Frank Gillmore, Owen appeared on Broadway in the 1920s through early 1930s in productions including The Mountain Man, The Whole Town's Talking, Trelawny of the Wells, The Love City and The Play's the Thing. In 1925, Owen was acclaimed as one of the ten most beautiful women in the world. Owen made her film debut as Princess Orsolini opposite John Gilbert's Captain Kovacs in the 1929 film His Glorious Night. It was to Owen that Gilbert spoke the lines, "Oh beauteous maiden, my arms are waiting to enfold you. I love you. I love you. I love you." The scene, which proved disastrous for Gilbert's career, was later parodied in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain. In 1930, Owen starred in Lawrence Tibbett's film debut, The Rogue Song and also with Edmund Lowe in Born Reckless. Owen appeared in her final film, Defenders of the Law in 1931. She retired from acting in 1935.


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Behind Office Doors

as Ellen May Robinson
Released: 1931-03-15

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James...

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The Rogue Song

as Princess Vera
Released: 1930-01-17

In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a...

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Born Reckless

as Joan Sheldon
Released: 1930-05-11

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight...

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Such Men Are Dangerous

as Elinor Kranz
Released: 1930-03-09

A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that...

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Strictly Unconventional

as Elizabeth
Released: 1930-05-03

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic...

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His Glorious Night

as Princess Orsolini
Released: 1929-09-28

Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in...

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Today

as Eve Warner
Released: 1930-11-01

A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job...

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The Forbidden Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1927-10-28

A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be...

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Defenders of the Law

as Alice Randall
Released: 1931-05-23

A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city,...

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