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Marjorie Weaver is a Actor American born on 2 march 1913 at Crossville (USA)

Marjorie Weaver

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Birth name Marjorie Weaver
Nationality USA
Birth 2 march 1913 at Crossville (USA)
Death 1 october 1994 (at 81 years) at Austin (USA)

Marjorie Weaver (March 2, 1913 – October 1, 1994) was an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s.

Biography

Elle naît à Crossville dans le Tennessee en 1913. Elle suit les cours de l'université du Kentucky puis ceux de l'université de l'Indiana.

Au début des années 1930, elle travaille comme actrice, chanteuse et modèle. Après plusieurs rôles secondaires au cinéma, elle donne en 1937 la réplique à Ricardo Cortez dans le western The Californian de Gus Meins et partage l'affiche de la comédie J'ai deux maris (Second Honeymoon) de Walter Lang avec Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Claire Trevor et Stuart Erwin.

En 1938, elle tient l'un des rôles principaux de la comédie musicale Sally, Irene and Mary de William A. Seiter aux côtés d'Alice Faye, Joan Davis, Tony Martin et Jimmy Durante. Ce film est le remake de la comédie Poupées de théâtre (Sally, Irene and Mary) d'Edmund Goulding réalisé en 1925. Elle est ensuite l'une des trois sœurs Charters dans la comédie Trois souris aveugles (Three Blind Mice) de William A. Seiter et tombe amoureuse d'un millionnaire désabusé dans la comédie I'll Give a Million de Walter Lang.

En 1940, elle incarne Mary Todd Lincoln, la femme du président américain Abraham Lincoln joué par Henry Fonda dans le film biographique Vers sa destinée (Young Mr. Lincoln) de John Ford. Pour Eugene Forde, elle joue le rôle d'une reporter dans le fim policier Man at Large. Dans les années 1940, elle joue également dans deux films de la série policière consacré au détective sino-américain Charlie Chan incarné par Sidney Toler et dans trois films d'une autre série policière consacré au détective américain Mike Shayne incarné par Lloyd Nolan. En 1944, elle participe au sérial en treize épisodes The Great Alaskan Mystery de Lewis D. Collins et Ray Taylor puis interprête en 1945 une détective face à Robert Lowery dans la comédie policière Fashion Model de William Beaudine.

Elle obtient ensuite quelques rôles secondaires et apparaît comme invitée dans trois épisodes de séries télévisées, avant de se retirer définitivement en 1956.

Elle décède en 2000 à Austin au Texas à l'âge de 81 ans.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Marjorie Weaver (38 films)

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Actress

We're Not Married!, 1h26
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films, Films about marriage
Actors Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas
Roles Ruthie, the Co-respondent (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1978353.1978353.1978353.1978353.197835
When elderly Mr. Bush (Victor Moore) is appointed justice of the peace, he starts marrying couples on Christmas Eve. However, his appointment isn't valid until the first of January. Two years later, this issue becomes known when one of the six couples he married files divorce. To avoid a bigger scandal, the remaining five couples are informed that they are not really married. The film then shows how the couples react on the news:
Fashion Model, 1h1
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Lorna Gray, Dorothy Christy, Dewey Robinson, Harry Depp
Roles Peggy Rooney
Rating52% 2.622652.622652.622652.622652.62265
When a prominent fashion model is murdered, a stockboy accused of the crime must clear his name, working with another model.
The Great Alaskan Mystery, 3h43
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Milburn Stone, Marjorie Weaver, Edgar Kennedy, Samuel S. Hinds, Martin Kosleck, Ralph Morgan
Roles Ruth Miller
Rating63% 3.1784453.1784453.1784453.1784453.178445
James 'Jim' Hudson, an adventurer and accompanied by allies, goes after Nazi agents who have a new death ray called the Paratron...
Let's Face It, 1h16
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts, Phyllis Povah, Dave Willock, Eve Arden
Roles Jean Blanchard
Rating59% 2.998032.998032.998032.998032.99803
The Man Who Wouldn't Die, 1h5
Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Helene Whitney, Henry Wilcoxon, Richard Derr, Paul Harvey
Roles Catherine Wolff
Rating65% 3.2933453.2933453.2933453.2933453.293345
Catherine Woff (Marjorie Weaver), la fille du riche Dudley Woff (Paul Harvey), est menacée par un homme censé être mort et enterré. Pour démêler cette histoire, Catherine fait appel au détective privé Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan).
Just Off Broadway, 1h5
Directed by Herbert I. Leeds
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter, Richard Derr, Joan Valerie
Roles Judy Taylor
Rating60% 3.0473353.0473353.0473353.0473353.047335
Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan), a private investigator, flees from jury duty to prove the defendant's guilt. He and his girlfriend Judy Taylor (Marjorie Weaver), a reporter, begin looking into the suspect's alibis and discover that in addition to the murder he stands trial for, the man has also killed two others. Afterward, the detective is jailed of 60 days for defecting from the jury.
The Mad Martindales, 1h5
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jane Withers, Marjorie Weaver, Alan Mowbray, Jimmy Lydon, Gig Young, George Reeves
Roles Evelyn Martindale
Rating65% 3.298393.298393.298393.298393.29839
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Don Beddoe
Roles Paula Drake
Rating70% 3.5431553.5431553.5431553.5431553.543155
The famed detective seeks to unmask a killer on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
Maryland
Maryland (1940)
, 1h32
Directed by Norman Foster, Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Brennan, Fay Bainter, Brenda Joyce, John Payne, Charles Ruggles, Hattie McDaniel
Roles Georgie Tomlin
Rating60% 3.049163.049163.049163.049163.04916
After her husband dies, wealthy Charlotte Danfield sells off his entire stable of horses and forbids son Lee to ride again.