Marguerite Churchill
Marguerite Churchill | |
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 Churchill in 1929 | |
| Born | December 26, 1910 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | January 9, 2000 (aged 89) Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1922–1952[1] |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3, including Darcy and Orin O'Brien |
Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910
Career
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A child actress, Churchill made her first appearance on
Churchill appeared in more than 25 films. She played leading lady to John Wayne in Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail (1930),[4] 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).
On Broadway, Churchill performed in And Now Good-bye (1937), Dinner at Eight (1932), The Inside Story (1932), Skidding (1928), The Wild Man of Borneo (1927), House of Shadows (1927), and Why Not? (1922).[5]
Family
After her divorce from O'Brien, she appeared in one movie and a few television plays. In 1954, she announced her engagement to Peter Ganine, a sculptor. In the "California Marriage Index, 1949–1959", there is a record of marriage and file date of June 5, 1954, for Peter Ganine and Marguerite Churchill.[6][7]
Filmography
- The Valiant (1929) (co-starred with Paul Muni in his film debut) as Mary Douglas
- Pleasure Crazed (1929) as Nora Westby
- They Had to See Paris (1929) (with Will Rogers) as Opal Peters
- Seven Faces (1929) as Hélène Berthelot
- Harmony at Home (1930) (with Rex Bell) as Louise Haller
- Born Reckless (1930) (with Edmund Lowe) as Rosa Beretti
- Good Intentions (1930) as Helen Rankin
- The Big Trail (1930) (with John Wayne) as Ruth Cameron
- Girls Demand Excitement (1931) (with John Wayne) as Miriam
- Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) (with Warner Oland) as Pamela Potter
- Quick Millions (1931) (with Spencer Tracy and George Raft) as Dorothy Stone
- Riders of the Purple Sage (1931) (with future husband George O'Brien) as Jane Withersteen
- Ambassador Bill (1931) (with Will Rogers) as Queen Vanya
- Forgotten Commandments (1932) as Marya Ossipoff
- Girl Without a Room (1933) (with Charles Farrell and Charlie Ruggles) as Kay Loring
- Without Children (1935) as Sue Cole
- Speed Devils (1935) as Pat Corey
- Man Hunt (1936) as Jane Carpenter
- The Walking Dead (1936) (with Boris Karloff) as Nancy
- Dracula's Daughter (1936) (with Edward Van Sloan) as Janet
- Murder by an Aristocrat (1936) (with Lyle Talbot) as Sally Keating
- The Final Hour (1936) (with Ralph Bellamy) as Flo Russell
- Alibi for Murder (1936) (with William Gargan) as Lois Allen
- Legion of Terror (1936) as Nancy Foster
- Bunco Squad (1950) as Barbara Madison
References
- ^ Profile, ibdb.com. Accessed August 2, 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Ancestry Library Edition". Search.ancestrylibrary.com. Retrieved 2016-10-31.
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- ^ "Marguerite Churchill". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ California Marriage Index, 1949–1959
- ^ Hopper, Hedda (June 5, 1954). "Marguerite Churchill to Be Wed – Former film star Marguerite Churchill will marry Peter Ganine at the Russian Orthodox Church here". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. p. A1.
External links
- Marguerite Churchill at IMDb
- Marguerite Churchill at the Internet Broadway Database
- Marguerite Churchill at Virtual History
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