Marceline Day

Marceline Day
Day in 1926
Born	Marceline Newlin (1908-04-24)April 24, 1908 Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Died	February 16, 2000(2000-02-16) (aged 91) Cathedral City, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1924–1933
Spouses	Arthur J. Klein ​ ​ (m. 1930, divorced)​ John Arthur ​ ​ (m. 1959; died 1980)​
Relatives	Alice Day (sister)

Marceline Day (born Marceline Newlin; April 24, 1908 – February 16, 2000) was an American motion picture actress whose career began as a child in the 1910s and ended in the 1930s.^[1]

Early life

Marceline Newlin was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Frank and Irene Newlin and the younger sister of film actress Alice Day. She attended Venice High School.^[2]

Career

Day began her film career after her sister Alice Day became a featured actress as one of the

In 1926, Day was named one of the 13 WAMPAS Baby Stars, a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored 13 young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. Other notable recipients that year were Joan Crawford, Mary Astor, Janet Gaynor, and Dolores del Río. The publicity from the campaign added to Day's popularity, and in 1927, she appeared opposite John Barrymore in the romantic adventure The Beloved Rogue.

Day is probably best recalled for her appearances in the now

She married furrier Arthur J. Klein in 1930.[3]^[4] She was married for a second time in 1959 to John Arthur until his death on April 2, 1980. She had no children with either husband.^{[citation needed]}

Although Day transitioned into sound films with little problem, her film roles gradually became lesser in quality, and she began working primarily for lower-rung film studios. By 1933, Day made the transition back to the Western genre, appearing in "B"

On February 16, 2000, Day was found dead in her kitchen, in her Cathedral City, California, home at the age of 91. She was cremated.^[5]

Filmography

Features

Shorts

References

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