Kathryn Eames(1908-2004)
- Actress
Kathryn Eames won the National Collegiate Players Award in 1940 while
attending the University of Arizona. Her prize included a summer
workshop with Tamara Daykarhanova who gave her a scholarship to
continue study in the fall. Her first professional appearance was in
the Broadway production of "Winged Victory". For over 50 years, she
appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on radio, television and film. She
worked in regional theatre, stock packages, dinner theatre and
industrial shows with such actors as Ian Keith, Groucho Marx, Shirley
Booth, Robert Alda, Kaye Ballard, Eddie Bracken, Tom Ewell and Gloria
de Haven. In 1992, she was Actor in Residence at Iowa State University
where a theatre scholarship has been established in her name.