subsided after the Broadway production shifted the setting of the song to Harlem, in front of the Cotton Club, and assigned the number to African-American vocalist Elisabeth Welch instead of Kathryn Crawford, a white singer." 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. Crawford's 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. Personal life Crawford's initial marriage, when she eloped, was to Max Rogers, a student at UCLA. They were married by a justice of the peace in Riverside, set up housekeeping, and continued their high school and college educations. Crawford later said, "He didn't trust me and I didn't trust him." Crawford had the marriage annulled when she was 18. On November 10, 1934, she married James Edgar, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, and retired from the screen. They divorced (with much publicity) on June 16, 1936. Crawford married Ralph M. Parson, with whom she would remain married until his death in 1974. In her later years, Crawford was an interior decorator for 40 years. Her clients included Barron Hilton (at Hilton's Jay Paley House), Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, and Mary Pickford's Pickfair estate. Civic activities in which Crawford was active included Friends of Harvey Mudd College, Los Angeles Music Center, the Blue Ribbon 400, the Society for Preservation of Variety Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Society of American Interior Designers. Death Crawford died of cancer at the Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, on December 7, 1980. She was 72 years old. References Newspaper reports St Joseph Gazette: 12-year search for girls ends, June 3, 1929 Los Angeles Times: Actress' Mother in Court Today, February 2, 1931. External links 1908 births 1980 deaths Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) American film actresses Actresses from Pennsylvania People from Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Deaths from cancer in California 20th-century American actresses