Merna Kennedy


Actor
Merna Kennedy

About

Also Known As
Maude Kahler, Myrna Kennedy
Birth Place
Kankakee, Illinois, USA
Born
September 07, 1908
Died
December 20, 1944
Cause of Death
Heart Attack

Biography

Merna Kennedy was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Kennedy started off her career in film with roles in "The Circus" (1928), "Broadway" (1929) with Glenn Tryon and "King of Jazz" (1930). Kennedy then began to rack up a number of film credits, including roles in "Come On Tarzan" (1932), "Ghost Valley" (1932) and "The All American" (1932). She also appeared in "Do...

Family & Companions

Busby Berkeley
Husband
Choreographer, director. Married 1934, divorced 1935.

Biography

Merna Kennedy was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Kennedy started off her career in film with roles in "The Circus" (1928), "Broadway" (1929) with Glenn Tryon and "King of Jazz" (1930). Kennedy then began to rack up a number of film credits, including roles in "Come On Tarzan" (1932), "Ghost Valley" (1932) and "The All American" (1932). She also appeared in "Don't Bet on Love" (1933) and "Police Call" (1933). Later in her career, Kennedy acted in "The Big Chance" (1933). Kennedy's husband was Busby Berkeley. Kennedy passed away in December 1944 at the age of 36.

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Circus, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Swing Little Girl Opening sequence, from the 1969 re-release, featuring the star and director atypically billed as "Charlie," plus the song he wrote and recorded for this version, from "Charles" Chaplin's The Circus, 1928.
King Of Jazz (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Ladies Of The Press One of the wackiest and most brief of the comic vignettes, credited to screenwriter Harry Ruskin, introduced by MC Charles Irwin, in the Universal two-strip Technicolor musical-variety feature, with Laura LaPlante, Jeanie Lang, Merna Kennedy, Grace Hayes and Kathryn Crawford, in King Of Jazz, 1930, featuring the Paul Whiteman Orchestra.
Jimmy The Gent (1934) -- (Movie Clip) He's Sore As A Boil After a blazing Warner Bros. opening of fatal accidents and headlines of vast fortunes with no heirs, director Michael Curtiz enters the office of the title character, Renee Whitney and Merna Kennedy taking flak for James Cagney, who tears into sidekick Allen Jenkins, in Jimmy The Gent, 1934.
Lady With A Past (1932) -- (Movie Clip) She Murdered Her Husband Acutely bookish and boring Venice (Constance Bennett) dragged to a party by friend Lola (Astrid Allwyn) hears from jerry (Donald Dilloway) then from hunky Donnie (David Manners) about the scandalized Mrs. Duryea (Merna Kennedy), early in Lady With A Past, 1932.
Circus, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Run Along Home! Accidentally recruited into the circus, the Tramp (director and star Charles Chaplin) meets "The Equestrienne" (Merna Kennedy), a performer denied food by her tyrannical father, the proprietor (Allan Garcia), in The Circus, 1928.

Companions

Busby Berkeley
Husband
Choreographer, director. Married 1934, divorced 1935.

Bibliography