Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris was born on Jul 16, 1880 in USA. Kathleen Norris's big-screen debut came with Josselyn's Wife directed by Howard Hickman in 1919. Kathleen Norris is known for Second Hand Wife directed by Hamilton MacFadden, Sally Eilers stars as Sandra Trumbull and Helen Vinson as Betty Cavendish. The upcoming new movie Kathleen Norris plays is Walls of Gold which will be released on Oct 21, 1933.

American novelist and short-story writer Kathleen Norris was born Kathleen Thompson into a wealthy family in San Francisco, CA, in 1880. Her father was a bank executive and was twice president of the famous (or infamous) Bohemian Club of San Francisco. Kathleen and her siblings were educated at the family estate in Mill Valley, CA, called "Treehaven" (later the name and setting for one of her novels) by tutors and governesses. The family's fortunes took a turn for the worse when Kathleen became a teenager, however, when her mother suddenly died of pneumonia and her father died less than a month later; the family was left almost destitute. She took a variety of jobs, including bookkeeper, schoolteacher and sales clerk. She would invent stories to tell her siblings in order to occupy their time, and to make some spare money she submitted one of them to the local newspaper, the San Francisco Argonaut, and it was accepted and published. It wasn't long before she became the society reporter for the Evening Bulletin newspaper, and spent two years as a reporter on the San Francisco Call.