{{Short description|American actress (1916-1983)}} {{Infobox person | name = Kay Williams | image = Kay Williams 1943 MGM headshot.png | image_size = | caption = Williams in a 1943 studio photo | birth_name = Kathleen Gretchen Williams | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1916|8|7}} | birth_place = Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date= {{death date and age|1983|5|25|1916|8|7}} | death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S. | burial_place= Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) | years_active = 1943–1953 | occupation = Actress | children=3 | spouse= {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Charles Parker Capps|1937|1939|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Martín de Álzaga|1942|1943|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Adolph Bernard Spreckels II|1945|1952|end=divorced}} * {{marriage|Clark Gable|1955|1960|end=died}} }} }}
'''Kathleen Gretchen "Kay" Williams Gable''' (August 7, 1916 – May 25, 1983) was an American actress. She appeared in numerous uncredited bit parts throughout the 1940s before playing Hazel Dawn in George Cukor's ''The Actress'' (1953).
==Career== Williams was placed under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1943 but appeared in uncredited bit parts for the remainder of the decade.<ref name=upi>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/26/Clark-Gables-widow-dead/6204422769600/|work=UPI|title=Clark Gable's widow dead|date=May 26, 1983|accessdate=July 22, 2017}}</ref>
==Personal life== Williams was married four times. Her first marriage to Charles Capps lasted from 1937 to 1939, after which she was married to Martín de Álzaga, an Argentine cattle tycoon, from 1942 to 1943.<ref name=upi/> She was married to Adolph Bernard Spreckels II, a sugar heir, from 1945 until 1952, with whom she had two children (including Bunker Spreckels).<ref name=upi/> Williams was married to actor Clark Gable from 1955 until his death in 1960. The couple had one child, a son,<ref name=upi/> who was born after his father's death.<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo|title=The Wind Is Never Gone: Sequels, Parodies and Rewritings of Gone with the Wind|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tEp4sdrDEkC&pg=PA6|date=29 July 2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-8636-6|pages=6}}</ref>
==Death== Williams, who had battled heart ailments during her life, left California to receive treatment at Methodist Hospital in Houston, where she died of heart failure on May 25, 1983.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/27/obituaries/kay-gable-65-is-dead-mother-of-film-star-s-son.html|work=The New York Times|title=Kay Gable, 65, Is Dead; Mother of Film Star's Son|date=May 27, 1983|accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 1943 || ''Du Barry Was a Lady'' || Miss May || Uncredited |- | 1943 || ''Swing Fever'' || First Receptionist / Music Publisher || Uncredited |- | 1943 || ''Girl Crazy'' || Showgirl || Uncredited |- | 1943 || ''Whistling in Brooklyn'' || Office Girl || Uncredited |- | 1943 || ''A Guy Named Joe'' || Girl at Bar || Uncredited |- | 1944 || ''Rationing'' || Information Girl || Uncredited |- | 1944 || ''Two Girls and a Sailor'' || Dream Girl || Uncredited |- | 1944 || ''Meet the People'' || Showgirl || Uncredited |- | 1944 || ''Marriage Is a Private Affair'' || Pretty Girl || Uncredited |- | 1944 || ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' || Girl in Officers' Club || Uncredited |- | 1945 || ''This Man's Navy'' || || Uncredited |- | 1945 || ''Ziegfeld Follies'' || Ziegfeld Girl || Sketch: "Number Please"; uncredited |- |1947 || ''The Other Love'' || Florist's Assistant || Uncredited |- | 1948 || ''Arch of Triumph'' || Mrs. Green || Uncredited |- | 1948 || ''No Minor Vices'' || Receptionist || Uncredited |- | 1953 || ''The Actress'' || Hazel Dawn || |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Kay Williams}} *{{IMDb name|0931035}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Kay}} Category:1916 births Category:1983 deaths Category:20th-century American actresses Category:Actresses from Erie, Pennsylvania Category:Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players Category:Spreckels family