Biographies: Kay Linaker - Actor

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An American actress and screenwriter, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on July 19, 1907. Kay Linaker was educated at a private school in Connecticut, and later joined New York University, and while she was in New York, she became interested in theater and joined the American Academy of Arts. She played many small roles in Broadway theaters, which led to her work in cinema, where she starred in many films in the thirties and forties, the first of which was The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936). In 1945, she made Bring on the Girls (1945), and she met the singer and writer, Howard Phillips, whom she married and quit acting, but she wrote screenplays for television. Her most notable work includes Hidden Enemy (1940), War Dogs (1942), Lady in the Dark (1944) and as a writer, The Blob (1988). She died in New Hampshire, on April 18, 2008, of heart failure.

• 1 September 2021
• Dalia Saad