Kathleen B. Burke (September 5, 1913 – April 9, 1980) was an American movie actress of the 1930s and former model.

Burke was a fashion model and acted on radio in Chicago[3] before winning a talent contest sponsored by Paramount Pictures to play Lota the Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls (1932), the first sound film adaptation of H.G.

By the early 1940s, Burke sought to escape the Panther Woman image by acting on stage in other kinds of roles.

In 1942, she acted in both a drama, Night Must Fall, and a comedy, Yes, My Darling Daughter in summer theater at Great Neck, New York.

[6] Burke married Glenn Rardin, a photographer whose pictures of her helped her to win a nationwide Panther Girl contest.