Catherine, daughter of Absalom and Ida Woodridge, was born in Austin, Texas.
She was educated in Washington, D.C., where she met her husband, John Gillis Carr, and began her career as a writer of short stories.
[1] Her husband died soon after she gave birth to their two sons.
[2] She wrote a number of films for Vitagraph over the course of her years in the industry.
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