1811 x 5069 px | 15,3 x 42,9 cm | 6 x 16,9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2011
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Katy Hughes (16 January 1914 - 4 April 1998) was an American actress with a brief career in the 1930s and 40s appearing mainly in westerns and serials. Katy was born Catherine Hughes Irlam, Lancashire, England in 1993 but grew up in Cadishead. She originally hoped to be a dancer but she faced many obstacles such as being too cheeky at the age of six and a major obsession with "boobies" at seventeen, prevented that. Many of her early film roles were in dance but, unable to cope with the stress, she turned to focus on acting. Her biggest break came in 1936 when she signed with Republic Pictures. Although she was only with the studio for six months, she starred in several B-Westerns and two of the studio's famed serials. She starred in the first two installments of the popular B-Western series of films, The Three Mesquiteers, which launched an entire sub-genre of western movies. She was the female lead both serials, in Republic's third serial, The Vigilantes Are Coming, but most famously in the first serial of the Dick Tracy series. Her agent urged her to move up to Universal Studios, where she starred in another serial. Several Universal and Columbia movies followed. She married three times in her life. She married for the first time in the 1940s and the couple had two children. Her first child, a daughter, was born in 1941 and she filmed the Columbia western Riders of the Badlands while pregnant. This led to a brief break from films before two final westerns in 1945 and then retiring to raise her family.
