Kenneth Mackenna


Actor

About

Also Known As
Leo Mielziner
Birth Place
Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA
Born
August 19, 1899
Died
January 15, 1962
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

Kenneth MacKenna was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. MacKenna kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "Miss Bluebeard" (1925), "The American Venus" (1926) and "South Sea Rose" (1929). He also appeared in "Man Trouble" (1930) and "Men Without Women" (1930). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, appearing in "Sin Takes a Holiday"...

Biography

Kenneth MacKenna was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. MacKenna kickstarted his acting career in various films such as "Miss Bluebeard" (1925), "The American Venus" (1926) and "South Sea Rose" (1929). He also appeared in "Man Trouble" (1930) and "Men Without Women" (1930). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, appearing in "Sin Takes a Holiday" (1930), "Temple Tower" (1930) and the drama "The Virtuous Sin" (1930) with Walter Huston. In the latter half of his career, he continued to act in the Janet Gaynor dramatic adaptation "The Man Who Came Back" (1931), "Those We Love" (1932) and "High Time" (1960). He also appeared in the dramatic adaptation "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961) with Spencer Tracy. MacKenna last acted in the Alan Ladd crime thriller "13 West Street" (1962). MacKenna passed away in January 1962 at the age of 63.

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Sin Takes A Holiday (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing Like A Good Day's Sleep At the Riverdale mansion of lawyer Stanton (Kenneth McKenna), his secretary Sylvia (top-billed Constance Bennett), working the evening, helps Richards (Louis John Bartels) when his wife calls, as the clique (John Roche as Sheridan, Basil Rathbone as Durand) confabs, early in Sin Takes a Holiday, 1930.
Sin Takes A Holiday (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Traveling Alone? Having just married her wealthy lawyer boss, for the sole purpose of ending his own romantic entanglements, secretary Sylvia (Constance Bennett) is headed for Paris as her reward, on an opulent RKO ocean liner, meeting Basil Rathbone as dashing Durand, a bachelor friend of her quasi-husband, in Sin Takes A Holiday, 1930.
Sin Takes A Holiday (1930) -- (Movie Clip) How Could You Have A Wife? Racy exteriors establish New York then, not quite Goodfellas but an impressive shot by director Paul L. Stein and cinematographer John Mescall, as lawyer Stanton (Kenneth MacKenna), in a plush night club, reveals to his scheming girlfriend (Rita LaRoy) that he’s cleverly married his secretary (top-billed Connie Bennett), in RKO’s Sin Takes A Holiday, 1930.
Sin Takes A Holiday (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Am I Supposed To Wait For Her To Die? Four outfits in about three minutes for Constance Bennett as Sylvia, now in Paris, being squired about by bachelor Durant (Basil Rathbone), enjoying the freedom she earned by marrying, for convenience, her rich lawyer boss (Kenneth MacKenna), pleased with the frustration it causes his ambitious girlfriend (Rita LaRoy), in RKO’s Sin Takes A Holiday, 1930.

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