18 Part I-Mon., Sept. 10,1979 Cos Angeles Slimes *
Doris Kenyon Sills Dies; Known On and Off Screen Doris Kenyon Sills, in movies a leading lady to Rudolph Valentino, Ronald Colman and William Powell and in life the wife of somepf this country's most successful men, is dead. She died Sept. 1 at her Beverly Hills home and would have been 82 Wednesday. Born Doris Kenyon, she made first film “A Girl's Folly" (1917) the old World Film Co. in Ft. Lee, N.J. One of her early and best-remem bered successes was opposite Valenti no in “Monsieur Beaucaire" i 1924). She was at Paramount for that stu dio’s first dramatic, all-talking picture "Interference” with Powell (1928) which followed "The Thief of Para dise" with Colman (1925). She then appeared in a series of films with George Arliss—“Alexander Hamilton,” (1931), “Voltaire,” (1933) and “Whom the Gods Destroy” (1934). Another was with John Barrymore in "Counselor at Law” (1933). Her 50-picture career ended in 1939, with a brief appearance in "Man ip the Iron Mask” but she continued ish composer and pianist Artur Ru to accept a few television roles. binstein's brother-in-law. After her Indeed, friends related last week, as ,e resumed a sing- recently as 1978 she appeared started to pursue audition and, without identifying abandoned that to self to the casting director, was given semiretirement in Beverly a role as an elderly woman holding an infant in a McDonald’s hamburger the years her fame took shape commercial. ■ays. Her personal life was no less color In 1924 Mrs. Alma Kappelhoff, an ful than her professional one. ardent Kenyon fan, named her Married in 1926 to Milton Sills (de daughter for the star. scribed by Times retired film critic • Kappelhoff matured to be- Philip K. Scheuer as “the then John vho went on to a film Wayne of movies—a man,who made rugged, he-man pictures”), she was Kenyon appeared at widowed in 1930. lebration of She married Arthur Hopkins, a the KTLA wealthy New York real estate broker in 1933 but obtained a divorce from him the next year, claiming incompa tibility. In 1938 she wed Albert D. Lasker, last appearance owner of Lord & Thomas, one of the bit with Walter Brennan in richest advertising agencies in the “The Tycoon,” a 1964 television se- world which in 1942 was merged with Foote. Cone & Belding. They divorced Services were held Thursday at in 1939. Forest Lawn’s Church of the Reces Her fourth and last sional in Glendale. Bronislaw Mlynarski, sc Only four grandchildren survive.