Katherine MacDonald was born on December 14, 1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA as Katherine Agnew MacDonald. She was an actress and producer, known for The Beauty Market (1919), Chastity (1923) and Refuge (1923). She was married to Christian Roy Holmes, Charles Schoen Johnson and Malcolm Atherton Strauss. She died on June 4, 1956 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Sister of actress Mary MacLaren.
Great favourite of President 托马斯·伍德罗.
Conducted a public feud with her actress-sister Mary MacLaren.
Blonde, blue-eyed silent screen star of romantic melodramas in the 1920's, a former model. She was one of the first actresses to set up her own production company, 'Katherine MacDonald Pictures' (1919-1921). She was a significant box-office earner for First National and B.P. Schulberg, starring opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas Meighan and William S. Hart. After her retirement from acting, she ran a cosmetics business.
Her second marriage, to Christian Holmes, heir to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune, ended in sensational headlines in 1931, when she claimed he kept her locked in a cage, and he charged her with marital infidelity.
Suffered from diabetes in her later years, which resulted in having a leg amputated in 1954.