Catherine Doucet

Catherine Doucet was born on Jun 20, 1875 in Pennsylvania. Catherine Doucet's big-screen debut came with Playing with Fire directed by Francis J. Grandon in 1916. Catherine Doucet is known for Detective Story directed by William Wyler, Kirk Douglas stars as Det. James McLeod and Eleanor Parker as Mary McLeod. The upcoming new movie Catherine Doucet plays is Detective Story which will be released on May 19, 1952.

American character actress from the theatre, former school teacher. On the New York stage since 1906 with 'Brown of Harvard', co-starring Laura Hope Crews. She acted under her maiden name Catherine Calhoun until 1920, then adopted the surname of her husband, the actor Paul Doucet, appearing almost exclusively in comedy. Her major successes included 'Miss Lulu Bett' (1920-21) and 'The Potters' (1923-24) as Ma Potter. Catherine Doucet made just a handful of films before the mid-1930's, only coming to the fore as Martha Dobie's (played by Miriam Hopkins) selfish aunt Lily Mortar in Ils étaient trois (1936), based on Lillian Hellman's play 'The Children's Hour'. Film critic Frank S. Nugent described her performance as 'flawless'. For the rest of her career, Catherine portrayed a variety of indomitable matrons and society ladies. She gave excellent comic support in both stage and screen versions of 'As Husbands Go' and made a memorable foil to W.C. Fields in Poppy (1936).