Kay Hughes - Annotated Filmography

Annotated Filmography

Katy's career started typically with several uncredited and minor roles.

• Saturday's Millions (1933) as Student
• Men in Black (1934) as Nurse - A Three Stooges short film
• It's the Cats (1934)
• Ride Ranger Ride (1934}
• The Chases of Pimple Street (1934) as Clerk
• His Old Flame {1935)
• George White's 1935 Scandals {1935) as One of Do's Four Girls
• Slightly Static {1935) as Telephone Operator
• Fighting Youth {1935) as Sorority Girl

Katy had some larger roles in 1937.

• Strike Me Pink (1936) as one of the Goldwyn Girls
• Every Saturday Night {1936) as Patty Newall
• The Robin Hood of El Dorado {1936) as Louise

More minor roles followed.

• Brides Are Like That {1936) as Mary Ann Coleridge
• Snowed Under {1936) as Miss Jones, Dumb Switchboard Operator
• The Singing Kid {1936) as Mary Lou
• Romance in the Air {1936)

In 1936 Katy signed with Republic and first used the screenname Katy Hughes.

• The Vigilantes Are Coming {1936) as Doris Colton - Serial with Robert Livingston
• The Three Mesquiteers {1936) as Marian Bryant - First of the popular Three Mesquiteers series of films with Robert Livingston
• Ride Ranger Ride {1936) as Dixie Summerall - With Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette
• Ghost-Town Gold {1936) as Sabina Thornton - Second of the popular Three Mesquiteers series of films with Robert Livingston
• The Big Show {1936) as Marion Hill - With Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette
• The Mandarin Mystery {1936) as Irene Kirk
• A Man Betrayed {1936) as Marjorie Norton
• Dick Tracy {1937) as Gwen Andrews - Serial with Ralph Byrd and Smiley Burnette. This was also re-edited into a feature film, which was released in the same year.

Encouraged by her agent, Katy moved to the bigger Universal Studios, where she used a new screenname, Catherine Hughes.

• Hollywood Screen Test {1937)
• Radio Patrol {1937) as Molly Selkirk - Another serial, for a different studio
• Trouble at Midnight {1938) as Catherine Benson

She then moved to Columbia Pictures where she starred in two films.

• Honolulu Lu {1941) as Nurse
• Riders of the Badlands {1941) as Celia Barton - Filmed while pregnant with her first child

Katy briefly retired to raise her family but soon returned to film two westerns for Producers Releasing Corporation.

• Enemy of the Law {1945) as Ruby Lawson
• Fighting Bill Carson {1945) as Jean Darcy

She then retired from film to raise her family. She had one more screen credit, however, sixteen years later.

• The Aquanauts (1961) as Paula - In Episode 31 "The Scavenger Adventure"