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Kay Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American model and actress. She is best known for playing feisty and frequently-imperiled heroines in black and white serials during the 1940s. She was born Katharine Gratten Aldridge in Tallahassee, Florida. As a model she was seen on the covers of magazines such as Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook and Look in the 1930s. Contemporary artist Anne Taintor used advertisements featuring Aldridge as the base for a number of her pieces. Her film career began in 1937 with an uncredited role in Vogues of 1938. In the following couple of... MORE

Kay Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American model and actress. She is best known for playing feisty and frequently-imperiled heroines in black and white serials during the 1940s. She was born Katharine Gratten Aldridge in Tallahassee, Florida. As a model she was seen on the covers of magazines such as Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook and Look in the 1930s. Contemporary artist Anne Taintor used advertisements featuring Aldridge as the base for a number of her pieces. Her film career began in 1937 with an uncredited role in Vogues of 1938. In the following couple of years she had a number of minor and largely decorative roles while credited as Katherine Aldridge. It was reported that she was among the actresses screen tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. The roles for which she became best known began in 1942 with the serial Perils of Nyoka, made by the company Republic Pictures, which specialised in serials of the type that had dramatic cliffhanger scenes at the end of each episode. Now credited as Kay Aldridge she played the character Nyoka Gordon who confronts a host of villains while seeking her father who was lost on an expedition LESS