Marion Martin

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Marion Martin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedAugust 13, 1985(1985-08-13) (aged 76)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery, Culver City
OccupationActress
Years active1934–1952
SpouseJimmy Krzykowski (1950–1985 (her death)[1]

Marion Suplee (June 7, 1909 – August 13, 1985), known professionally as Marion Martin, was an American film and stage actress.

Biography

Martin was born in

Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet Adeline
.

She made her film debut in She's My Lillie, I'm Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a singer. By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles in several "B" pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in

Mexican Spitfire" films in the early 1940s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store, where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo
.

Martin in Lady of Burlesque (1943)

She played a ghost in Gildersleeve's Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in 1943. Her more substantial roles included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also appeared in The Big Street (1942) with Lucille Ball, in the western The Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and in The Great Mike at PRC in 1944.

By the late 1940s, her roles were often minor.

Three Stooges fans will remember her as western cowgirl Gladys in Merry Mavericks. She played "Belle Farnol" in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger
entitled "Pardon for Curley". Shortly afterward, she made her final film appearance in 1952. Married to a physicist, Martin retired, and although she expressed the desire to return to show business, suitable roles were not offered to her.

Personal

She was awarded a star at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard on the

Culver City, California.[3]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ https://bizarrela.com/2018/11/marion-martin/ [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Marion Martin". Hollywood Walk of Fame. 25 October 2019. Archived from the original on February 23, 2020. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  3. ISBN 978-0-7864-0983-9
    . Retrieved February 23, 2020.
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