Katherine Albert

Katherine was born in Kentucky, the only child of George Albert and Logie Bell Evans.[1] As a young girl, she dreamed of becoming an actress, and she persuaded a family friend who was related to D. W. Griffith to get her an introduction when she moved to California at age 16.[1] Griffith brought her onto his stock company, and she appeared in a few small roles on the stage and in silent films before deciding that acting wasn't for her.[1] The family moved away from Los Angeles for a time.

When she moved back to Hollywood in her early 20s, she began writing for publications like The Los Angeles Daily News and Photoplay before getting a job in MGM's publicity department.[1] Early on in that assignment, she was charged with working with Greta Garbo, who she apparently didn't get along well with.[2]

At MGM, she met Dale Eunson, who later become editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. The pair married in 1931, and together, they collaborated on a number of short stories, stage plays (including Loco, which ran on Broadway in 1946-47),[3] and screenplays.[1] Loco was later used, together with Zoe Akins' The Greeks Had a Word for It, as a source for the 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire starring Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall.[3]

They had a daughter, Joan Eunson (aka Joan Evans), named after Joan Crawford, who became an actress and entertainment journalist.[4] Albert was encouraging of Joan's career, but preferred not to meddle: "I've had to work with a lot of movie mamas. Believe me, I want no part of that".[5]

She and Eunson wrote most of their films and TV episodes after Albert suffered a major heart attack around 1950. During the 1950s and 1960s, they wrote half a dozen films and over a dozen TV episodes. They worked almost all the way up through Albert's death in 1970.[6]