Marguerite Churchill

Attore

26 dicembre 1910 — 9 gennaio 2000 (89 anni)
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Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930).

She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats.

Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawk's The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Wayne's first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Dracula's Daughter (1936).

She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.

Famoso per

  • La figlia di Dracula
    La figlia di Dracula1936
  • Il grande sentiero
    Il grande sentiero1930
  • L'ombra che cammina
    L'ombra che cammina1936
  • The Valiant
    The Valiant1929
  • Temerario nato
    Temerario nato1930
  • Man Hunt
    Man Hunt1936
  • They Had to See Paris
    They Had to See Paris1929
  • La fanciulla senza casa
    La fanciulla senza casa1933
  • Speed Devils
    Speed Devils1935

Filmografia

1950
Bunco Squad · as Barbara Madison
1949
1936
Legion of Terror · as Nancy Foster
1936
Alibi for Murder · as Lois Allen
1936
Murder by an Aristocrat · as Sally Keating
1936
Dracula's Daughter · as Janet
1936
The Walking Dead · as Nancy
1936
Man Hunt · as Jane Carpenter
1935
Speed Devils · as Pat Corey
1933
Girl Without a Room · as Kay Loring
1932
Forgotten Commandments · as Marya Ossipoff
1931
Ambassador Bill · as Queen Vanya
1931
Riders of the Purple Sage · as Jane Withersteen
1931
Quick Millions · as Dorothy Stone
1931
Charlie Chan Carries On · as Pamela Potter
1931
1930
The Big Trail · as Ruth Cameron
1930
Born Reckless · as Rosa Beretti
1929
Seven Faces · as Hélène Berthelot
1929
They Had to See Paris · as Opal Peters
1929
The Valiant · as Mary Douglas