Marion Martin
Nacimiento : 1908-06-07, Philadelphia, PA
Muerte : 1985-08-13
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Marion Martin (born Marion Suplee, June 7, 1909 – August 13, 1985) was an American movie and stage actress.
Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and appeared in the 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 James Whale's Sinners in Paradise (1938). Despite her success she was often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl Friday (1940). The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also appeared in dramas such as Boom Town (1940) in which she played a dance hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. She played secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "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.
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 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.
She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. She died in 1985 in Santa Monica, California, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
LaBelle La Tour
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Diana (as Marian Martin)
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.
Gladys
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock them out.
Blonde Singer
En 1899, un agente americano es enviado al Oeste tras la pista de una banda de asaltadores de trenes. Para llegar al cerebro de la banda tendrá que ganarse primero la amistad de Lil, una bella bailarina.
Emmy
Durante una convención de alcaldes de ciudades norteamericanas celebrada en San Francisco, dos de estos mandatarios acaban enamorados, con un pequeño problema: mientras que Clarissa gobierna en una pequeña localidad de Maine, Steve es el alcalde de otra comunidad al norte de California. Así que, cuando acaba el congreso, ambos parten para sus respectivos lugares...
Bar Blonde
Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
Rossi's Manicurist (uncredited)
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Pearl (as Marian Martin)
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
Loud Friend's Girlfriend
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.
JoJo, the Blonde
Two men (Don Castle, John Litel) and a woman (June Lang) form a triangle confined by a lighthouse.
Marion, Natalie's Girl Friend (as Marian Martin)
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
Lou, Blonde (uncredited)
Un estafador se enamora de una rica viuda a la que pretendía desplumar.
Mrs. Bentley
El gangster E. Kagle ha sido asesinado por su socio y amigo S. Williams. Kagle acaba en el infierno, donde "Nick" le ofrece la oportunidad de vengarse, a cambio de su ayuda con un problema que tiene. Nick lo dispone todo para que Kagle ocupe el cuerpo del honrado juez Parker. En el transcurso de los acontecimientos, Kagle se ve involucrado con Bárbara Foster, la novia del juez, de la que se enamora, hecho que le hará replantearse todo lo que ha sido su vida.
Millie
Hollywood, años 40. La policía encuentra en un apartamento el cadáver de la cantante y "femme fatale" Mavis Marlowe. El principal sospechoso es Kira Bennett, antiguo amante de la mujer. Cuando la policía averigua que Mavis había estado chantajeando a Bennett, éste es arrestado y condenado a muerte. Su esposa y el marido alcohólico de Mavis son los únicos que creen en su inocencia y se unirán para descubrir al auténtico culpable en una auténtica carrera contrarreloj.
Lola Cassell
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
Laura Gibson
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
Shooting Gallery Blond (uncredited)
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate...
Burlesque Queen
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
Dixie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
Miss Milbane
A pesar de que en el título aparece la palabra Hollywood, esta comedia no gira en torno al mundo del cine, sino al de la música. Abbott y Costello vuelven a interpretar a dos perdedores que sueñan con convertirse en importantes agentes musicales. Quieren cumplir su sueño, así que empiezan con pequeños clientes con carreras alejadas del estrellato. Por el momento son unos don nadie, habrá que ver si la pareja de cómicos consigue convertirlos en los reyes de la música.
Bubbles (uncredited)
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Rita (as Marian Martin)
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.
Irma King
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
Betty Hanzel
A reporter learns that an executed killer has taken over a scientist's mind.
Rose Allure
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house. But trouble starts when her boss (William Wright) decides to build her up as a star. One of the many bread-and-butter Columbia productions graced by the contributions of Cole’s in-house dance studio. Cole dances behind Miller in “I’m Gonna See My Baby.” --Museum of Modern Art
Kitty Tremaine
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recently a horse track has been built in the area and attracts horse breeder and racer Colonel Whiteny. He takes out a subscription for delivery and meets Mike and Speck & Jimmy. Clever Jimmy talks both the Colonel and Speck into taking on the Colonel's pure bred race horses at the track with comedic results.
Celeste Eltree [Chs. 1-4, 7]
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
Soubrette
Historia de una compañía de vodevil compuesta por la famila Monahan durante las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX.
Terry Vance
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
Nurse (uncredited)
Larry Stevens trabaja como reportero del Evening News de Nueva York y está a punto de celebrar sus bodas de oro con su esposa Sylvia y toda su familia. Durante la fiesta, cuenta un extraño hecho que le sucedió a fines del siglo XIX, cuando el viejo Benson, el encargado de la hemeroteca del periódico, al que apenas conocía, le entregó un ejemplar del Evening News que vaticinaba con un día de antelación las noticias que iban a producirse
Ghost of Josephine
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Daisy Davenport
El Sheriff Bat Masterson limpia con dureza Dodge City. Solo permite el prostíbulo de la bella Dora, de la que está enamorado. Los problemas surgen cuando a la ciudad llega el pistolero King Kennedy quien pide a Dora que convenza al Sheriff para que le ayude en su carrera de periodista
Alice Angel
Dixie Daisy (Barabara Stanwyck), estrella de variedades, se convierte en la nueva atracción de un music-hall de estilo burlesque. Este hecho hace que se gane como enemiga a la diva Lolita La Verne, quien esperaba haber ocupado su lugar como estrella principal en el show. A esto, se le añade el regreso de la Princesa Nirvena, la antigua estrella del espectáculo, quien tuvo un affair con el jefe. Toda esta situación se convierte en una verdadera intriga, en el momento en que aparecen asesinadas las dos competidoras de Dixie, convirtiéndose está en la principal sospechosa. Para probar su inocencia, decide preparar una trampa para el verdadero asesino, antes de que puedan sucederse más crímenes.
Gloria
Un periodista es despedido de su trabajo por haber dejado escapar una gran noticia. Se va a Washington a ver a la directora del sindicato de prensa en busca de consuelo. Los acontecimientos se precipitan cuando caen en sus manos unos documentos secretos: será acusado de varios crímenes por haberse implicado sin querer en un asunto de espionaje.
Myrtle
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
Diana De Corro
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
Mimi Venus
Pinks es un hombre humilde, todo corazón, que vive única y exclusivamente para complacer a la mujer de la que está locamente enamorado. Sin embargo, ella está tan acostumbrada al lujo que es incapaz de agradecer los desesperados esfuerzos que él hace por ella.
'Squirrel' Grey
Película ambientada en Nueva York y dividida en varios episodios independientes, pero enlazados entre sí por un traje de hombre que va pasando de unas manos a otras. Cada personaje vive una aventura especial relacionada con el traje.
Sue, Blonde Piano Player
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Mrs. Errol
Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
Fifi Russell
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
Nurse
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Mrs. Gloria Weatherby
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness. That dismay turns to outright annoyance when Jim realizes Randy thinks he has come to stay for the weekend. How much damage to a marriage can one unwanted guest do in the space of one weekend?
Fifi
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Ruby / Mary Jordan
Una banda de gángsters de Chicago prepara un importante robo. El teniente Bill Mason toma el caso y se enfrenta con una periodista de sucesos.
Tras la captura de uno de ellos, Mason sospecha que el líder de la banda es una mujer. Entretenida muestra de cine policíaco donde la novedad es convertir a la mujer fatal de turno en el cerebro de un banda de criminales. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mitzi
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
Flashy Blonde in Corridor
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
Liza Hatrack
A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative.
Peggy Arden
Groucho Marx, ayudado por los juguetones Harpo y Chico, organiza un caos en cada planta -e incluso en las paredes y techos- de un gran almacén. En el intento de cortejar a su eterna Dulcinea, la encantadora viuda Margaret Dumont, Groucho empeora la maraña de una feroz intriga de altos ejecutivos.
Gertie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Wanda
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Dawn
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Cornelia
Ellery Queen (Ralph Bellamy) investiga la enigmática muerte de un millonario que administraba un centro de vacaciones.
Blondie, Jewel Thief
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
Whitey
Dos amigos que pretenden hacerse ricos con el negocio del petróleo en los campos de Oklahoma, comienzan a tener problemas cuando se enamoran de la misma mujer.
Evangeline (uncredited)
Hildy Johnson, la mejor reportera del periódico Morning Post, anuncia que va a dejar el periodismo para casarse y dedicarse a su familia y a las labores del hogar. Pero Walter Burns, el editor del periódico y ex-marido de Hildy, no puede aceptarlo, por lo que se sirve de toda clase de tretas para retenerla en el periódico y, de paso, intentar reconquistarla.
Blonde (uncredited)
Cliff Taylor es un exconvicto que intenta llevar una vida normal, pero desde que salió de la cárcel en libertad condicional, su pasado criminal le impide encontrar y mantener un cualquier trabajo. Sin embargo, lo peor es que Tim, su hermano menor, siguiendo sus pasos, se une a la banda de Charles Martin
Mlle. de la Valliere
Adaptación de la famosa novela de Alexandre Dumas que sigue unas pautas muy similares a la versión rodada diez años antes por Allan Dwan.
Lola Snow
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Charlotte LePage
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Gypsy McCoy
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
Jane
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.
Girl on Beach
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Iris Compton
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.
Annabelle Postal -1st Prospective Bride
Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, too old, too skinny or too ugly,and he turns them all down.
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect ability in the search by posing as a Chinaman, an Englishman, a sailor and a Scotchman, but is unable to find her. He meets his sweetheart at a restaurant and, there, discovers she is the heiress he has been searching for. She breaks off their romance when she finds out she is rich.
A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
Miss Brooks
A star goes on a cruise under a false name to enjoy his vacation. When people accidently believe he is a wanted criminal he performs a few acts to prove his real identity.
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
The Blonde
As the rather fussy 'Mr. W' is dining in a restaurant, the waiter introduces him to an attractive woman, who sits down at his table. She asks him to take her to the theater, but he declines, indicating that he would prefer to relax at the restaurant. To entertain her, he teaches her a word game called the 'Minute Game'.
