Kay Hammond
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dorothy Katherine Standing (18 February 1909 - 4 May 1980), better known under the stage name Kay Hammond, was an English stage and film actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Hammond, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: February 18, 1909
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Look at Life
Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.
The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Blithe Spirit
A harmless séance at a novelist's home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.
The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
Jeannie
Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.
Double Harness
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.
Five Golden Hours
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Fascination
Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
A Night in Montmartre
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
Filmography
as Martha
as Narrator
as Grease Woman (uncredited)
as Elvira Condomine
as Margaret
as Mrs. Emma Stackpole
as Poetess
as Eleanor Weston
as Simone
as Myra Curtis
as Pearl Bolton
as Mimi-Cocktail Shaker(uncredited)
as Hebe Tucker
as Angela Tucker
as Helen
as Maisie
as Margot
as Kay
as Joyce
as Mary Todd Lincoln
as Catherine 'Flip' Merrick
as Julia Sturm