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person_profile-Marguerite Churchill

Marguerite Churchill Died at age: 89

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Marguerite Churchill

Date of Birth:

Dec 26, 1910

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 09, 2000

Biography of

Marguerite Churchill

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    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.

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Filmography of

Marguerite Churchill

Found 24 Movies in total

Bunco Squad

Barbara Madison ( Actor )

... 1950

Legion of Terror

Nancy Foster ( Actor )

... 1936

Alibi for Murder

Lois Allen ( Actor )

... 1936

The Final Hour

Flo Russell ( Actor )

... 1936

Murder by an Aristocrat

Nurse Sally Keating ( Actor )

... 1936

Dracula's Daughter

Janet ( Actor )

... 1936

The Walking Dead

Nancy ( Actor )

... 1936

Man Hunt

Jane Carpenter ( Actor )

... 1936

Speed Devils

Pat Corey ( Actor )

... 1935

Without Children

Sue Cole ( Actor )

... 1935

Girl Without a Room

Kay Loring ( Actor )

... 1933

Forgotten Commandments

Marya Ossipoff ( Actor )

... 1932

Ambassador Bill

Queen Vanya ( Actor )

... 1931

Riders of the Purple Sage

Jane Withersteen ( Actor )

... 1931

Quick Millions

Dorothy Stone ( Actor )

... 1931

Charlie Chan Carries On

Pamela Potter ( Actor )

... 1931

Girls Demand Excitement

Miriam ( Actor )

... 1931

The Big Trail

Ruth Cameron ( Actor )

... 1930

Good Intentions

Helen Rankin ( Actor )

... 1930

Born Reckless

Rosa Beretti ( Actor )

... 1930

Harmony at Home

Louise Haller ( Actor )

... 1930

Seven Faces

Hélène Berthelot ( Actor )

... 1929

They Had to See Paris

Opal Peters ( Actor )

... 1929

The Valiant

Mary Douglas ( Actor )

... 1929