Lauren Chapin Kathy “Kitten” Anderson On ‘Father Knows Best,’ dies at 80 – Entertainment News

By Karen Beishuizen

Lauren Chapin, the actress who played Kathy “Kitten” Anderson on “Father Knows Best”, died on Tuesday, 24 February after a battle with cancer. She was 80.

She starred in “A Star is Born” with Judy Garland in 1954.

When she was 9 she got the part in “Father Knows Best” which ran for six seasons, from October 1954 through May 1960, and the cast reunited for a pair of TV specials in 1977.

Lauren Chapin was born in Los Angeles on May 23, 1945.