Kathryn Adams

Kathryn Adams was an American actress, novelist, and psychologist, known primarily for her role as Mrs. Brown in the spy-thriller film Saboteur. Sabotage is a 1942 American flick, helmed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd, and Otto Kruger. The movie performed phenomenally at the box office and earned rave reviews from all quarters.

Kathryn Elizabeth Hohn was born on July 15, 1920, in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. The actress was born to Dr. Chris G. Hohn, a Methodist minister who relocated to Warrenton, Missouri, where he was appointed chaplain and also worked as an executive secretary at an orphanage. At the time, Kathryn was only six years of age.

As she grew up, the actress suffered from lung problems and stayed at a Minnesota camp for about two years. Adams was talented since childhood itself since it was merely at age thirteen that she substituted her father in the pulpit when he would be taken ill.

Adams studied at Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she was also a part of a choir. Later she worked as a clerk at Montgomery Ward. It was there that she grabbed an opportunity as an actor. In 1939, Adams was one of the contestants on Gateway to Hollywood, a radio competition finale by Jesse L. Lasky. As a result, she got a contract to work in films, which led to her adopting the name, Kathryn Adams.

Adams made her screen debut with the 1939 romcom Fifth Avenue Girl where she portrayed Katherine Borden. She worked in other famed movies like Sky Raiders, Blonde For A Day, The Invisible Woman Click to look into! >> Read More... , and the 1939 flick The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Her other film projects include That’s Right-You’re Wrong, If I Had My Way, Ski Patrol, Argentine Nights, Meet The Chump, Sky Raiders, Bachelor Daddy, Rawhide Rangers, Arizona Cyclone, and Saboteur, et al.

In 1942, Adams exchanged vows with Hugh Beaumont, who worked with her in Unfinished Business Click to look into! >> Read More... . Beaumont, featured in many movies, is majorly known for his role as Ward Cleaver in the television series Leave It To Beaver. She featured in her final film Blonde for a Day, in 1946, where she was cast opposite her the- husband, Beaumont. The couple had three children but later parted ways when they divorced in 1974.

She remarried Fred Doty in 2010 and pursued post-graduation in educational psychology. She restarted her career as a psychologist with the Footlight’s Child Guidance Clinic located at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and continued it when she moved back to Minnesota.

Doty is known for diverse talents since she authored two novels, A Long Year of Silence, published in 2004, and Wild Orphan, which was published in 2006. Her works resulted in her nomination for the Minnesota Book Award, while she bagged the Midwest Book Award in 2005. Later she wrote another book, a memoir titled ‘Becoming the Mother of Me’.

In 2010, her husband Fred Owen Doty passed away, while Adams left this world on October 14, 2016, in Mankato, Minnesota, U.S. Doty is survived by her three children Hunter, Kristan, and Mark, her six grandchildren, and ten great-grandkids.