From Wikipedia Born Katherine Moran in Wellsboro Pennsylvania Crawford had a somewhat tumultuous childhood Her parents divorced when she was four years old she and her sister stayed with her mother In 1917 her mother was hospitalized after an accident While her mother was in the hospital an aunt took Kathryn and her sister Margaret 19071975 away from their mothers house to live with their father Soon after Crawfords mother fell ill her father moved the family to Los Angeles California She didnt get along with her stepmother and at the age of 15 Crawford eloped with her sisters boyfriend to get out of the house After a year and a half of marriage the two separated Her mother who later remarried and was working as a hotelmaid searched 12 years for her daughters and found them after she saw Kathryn in a movie magazine in 1929 Crawford starred in her first film in 1929 when she appeared opposite Hoot Gibson in King of the Rodeo She would star in seven films that year and in 1930 she appeared in another six films including Safety in Numbers 1930 alongside Carole Lombard and up and coming actress and WAMPAS Baby Star Josephine Dunn Her only starring role on Broadway was in the Cole Porter musical The New Yorkers in which she was the original singer of Love for Sale However by 1931 her career had cooled She would star in only one film that year and only three between 1932 and 1933 only one of which would be a starring lead role Crawfords final acting part came in 1941 when she was credited under the name Katherine Crawford in City of Missing Girls and which starred H B Warner and John Archer She retired from acting after that film and moved to Pasadena California Crawford turned to interior decorating which she pursued for 40 years She designed the interiors for the homes and apartments of famous people like Baron Hilton Douglas MacArthur and President Herbert Hoover She was the consulting designer for Mary Pickfords Pickfair estate for 20 years A member of the founding friends of Harvey Mudd College Claremontshe also was a member of the founders of the Los Angeles Music Center and the Blue Ribbon 400 She was a member of the Society for Preservation of Variety Artsthe Los Angeles County Museum and the Society of American Interior Designers Crawford died of cancer at the Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena California on December 10 1980 She was 72 years old
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