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person_profile-Marie Prevost

Marie Prevost Died at age: 40

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Marie Prevost

Date of Birth:

Nov 07, 1896

Country of birth:

Canada

Died:

Jan 23, 1937

Biography of

Marie Prevost

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.

    Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925).

    After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936.

    After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.

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Filmography of

Marie Prevost

Found 64 Movies in total

Ten Laps to Go

Elsie, Cafe Waitress ( Actor )

... 1936

13 Hours by Air

Waitress in Omaha ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1935

Only Yesterday

Amy (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

The Eleventh Commandment

Tessie Florin ( Actor )

... 1933

Parole Girl

Jeanie Vance ( Actor )

... 1933

Slightly Married

Nellie Gordon ( Actor )

... 1932

Carnival Boat

Babe ( Actor )

... 1932

Three Wise Girls

Dot ( Actor )

... 1932

Hell Divers

Lulu ( Actor )

... 1932

... 1931

The Runaround

Margy ( Actor )

... 1931

Sporting Blood

Angela 'Angie' Ludeking ( Actor )

... 1931

The Good Bad Girl

Trixie Barnes ( Actor )

... 1931

It's a Wise Child

Annie Ostrom ( Actor )

... 1931

Gentleman's Fate

Mabel ( Actor )

... 1931

Paid

Agnes Lynch ( Actor )

... 1930

War Nurse

Rosalie ( Actor )

... 1930

... 1930

Ladies of Leisure

Dot Lamarr ( Actor )

... 1930

Party Girl

Diana Hoster ( Actor )

... 1930

The Flying Fool

Pat Riley ( Actor )

... 1929

Divorce Made Easy

Mabel Deering ( Actor )

... 1929

All Faces West

Arleta Vance ( Actor )

... 1929

The Racket

Helen Hayes ( Actor )

... 1928

The Godless Girl

Mame ( Actor )

... 1928

A Blonde for a Night

Marie ( Actor )

... 1928

On to Reno

Vera ( Actor )

... 1928

The Girl in the Pullman

Irene Burton ( Actor )

... 1927

Getting Gertie's Garter

Gertie Darling ( Actor )

... 1927

Man Bait

Madge Dreyer ( Actor )

... 1927

Almost a Lady

Marcia Blake ( Actor )

... 1926

Up in Mabel's Room

Mabel Ainsworth ( Actor )

... 1926

Other Women's Husbands

Kay Lambert ( Actor )

... 1926

The Cave Man

Myra Gaylord ( Actor )

... 1926

His Jazz Bride

Gloria Gregory ( Actor )

... 1926

Seven Sinners

Molly Brian ( Actor )

... 1925

Bobbed Hair

Connemara Moore ( Actor )

... 1925

Kiss Me Again

LouLou Fleury ( Actor )

... 1925

Recompense

Julie Gmelyn ( Actor )

... 1925

The Dark Swan

Eve Quinn ( Actor )

... 1924

The Lover of Camille

Marie Duplessis ( Actor )

... 1924

Three Women

Harriet ( Actor )

... 1924

Tarnish

Nettie Dark ( Actor )

... 1924

... 1924

Being Respectable

Valerie Winship ( Actor )

... 1924

Daughters of Pleasure

Marjory Hadley ( Actor )

... 1924

How to Educate a Wife

Mabel Todd ( Actor )

... 1924

The Marriage Circle

Mizzi Stock ( Actor )

... 1924

The Wanters

Myra Hastings ( Actor )

... 1923

Red Lights

Ruth Carson ( Actor )

... 1923

Brass

Marjorie Jones ( Actor )

... 1923

Heroes of the Street

Betty Benton ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1922

The Married Flapper

Pamela Billings ( Actor )

... 1922

Her Night of Nights

Molly May Mahone ( Actor )

... 1922

Kissed

Actor

... 1922

... 1921

... 1921

Moonlight Follies

Nan Rutledge ( Actor )

... 1921

A Small Town Idol

Marcelle Mansfield ( Actor )

... 1921

Down on the Farm

The Faithful Wife ( Actor )

... 1920

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

A Daughter of Belgium ( Actor )

... 1919

Unto Those Who Sin

Celeste ( Actor )

... 1916