Kate Price

Born: 13 February 1872, County Cork, Ireland
Died: 04 January 1943, Los Angeles, Calafornia, USA

Kate Price was an Irish silent film actress who appeared in over 300 films, most of which were comedies. She was born Katherine Duffy in 1872 in County Cork. She emigrated to America, where her younger brother, Jack (Duffy), who also became a film actor, was born.
Kate had a stage career with her husband before she started making motion pictures - this new career began in 1902 in New York, with Vitagraph Studios. Throughout her career, Kate appeared with many of the top stars of the day - Mary Pickford, Douglas Firbanks Jnr, Roscoe Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Snub Pollard, Larry Semon and Buster Keaton. One of her more prominent roles from this era was that of Keaton's accidental wife in his 1922 short "My Wife's Relations". Of particular interest to Laurel and Hardy fans is her connection to the Boys. She made 13 comedy shorts with Oliver Hardy (who was often credited as Babe Hardy) for the Vim Comedy Company in Florida. She later on appeared with Stan and Ollie in their (now lost) 1930 operatic comedy, "The Rogue Song". She also made films with Laurel and Hardy stalwarts Charlie Hall, Thelma Todd, Billy Gilbert and the always brilliant James Finlayson.
But perhaps Kate Price is best known for the role of Mrs. Kelly in Universal Pictures comedy series "The Cohens and Kellys". This was a series of 6 films which followed the exploits of 2 battling families.
Kate Price retired in 1937 and died 6 years later aged 70, at the Motion Picture Country Home in Los Angeles and was buried in Calvary Cemetery.