BIO

Doris Kenyon was born Doris Margaret Kenyon in Syracuse, New York, in 1897.   Her father was a minister.

An accomplished singer, Kenyon made her Broadway debut in a comedic operetta at the age of 18 in 1915.   She appeared in four more productions through 1924.

Kenyon also made her silent film debut in 1915 for William A. Brady Picture Plays and by 1917 was a star.   She remained a leading star through the transition to sound and into the mid-1930s.

Kenyon appeared in more than 60 feature films through 1939.   After that, she appeared only infrequently in television guest roles through the early 1960s.

She married four times:

1. Milton Sills (1882-1930), actor, (m. 1926-1930), one child, widowed.   Sills died of a heart attack at age 48 while playing tennis;
2. Arthur Hopkins (1878-1950), theatre producer/director/playwright, (m. 1933-1934), annulled;
3. Albert Lasker (1880-1952), advertising executive, (m. 1938-1939), divorced;
4. Bronislaw Mylnarski, (m. 1947-1971), widowed.

Kenyon died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, in 1979, at the age of 81.

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