Marjorie Reynolds (August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 70 films.
Born Marjorie Goodspeed, in Buhl, Idaho, as her parents made the cross-country trip from Maine to settle in California, she was featured as a child actress
in silent films such as Scaramouche (1923). Her first speaking role was in Murder in Greenwich Village (1937).
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Marjorie Reynolds (August 12, 1917 – February 1, 1997) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 70 films.
Born
Marjorie Goodspeed, in Buhl, Idaho, as her parents made the cross-country trip from Maine to settle in California, she was featured as a child actress
in silent films such as
Scaramouche (1923). Her first speaking role was in
Murder in Greenwich Village (1937). She also appeared in bit parts in many A-pictures including
Gone with the WindGone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming...
(1939).
Her films include
Holiday InnHoliday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with music by Irving Berlin. The film has twelve new songs, one brief use of "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," written in 1917 for the World War I musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" which was reprised on Broadway in 1942 under the...
(1942),
Fritz LangFriedrich "Fritz" Christian Anton Lang was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
's
Ministry of FearMinistry of Fear is a 1944 film noir directed by Fritz Lang based on the novel The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene. The film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring in London during the Blitz. After guessing the weight...
(1944) and
Up in Mabel's Room (1944). Her career progression was hindered by the premature death of her mentor,
Mark SandrichMark Sandrich was a Jewish American film director, writer and producer....
.
Often featured in dramatic roles, in
Holiday Inn, she showed her ability to dance, and she performed "
White Christmas"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about a White Christmas. It is the second-best selling single of all time, and won an Academy Award. The morning after Berlin wrote the song in 1940 at the poolside — he often stayed up all night writing — he told his...
" as a duet with
Bing CrosbyHarry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American popular singer and actor whose career stretched over more than half a century from 1926 until his death....
, although her singing was dubbed by
Martha MearsMartha Mears Martha Mears was the female singing voice in the renditions of "White Christmas" in the movie Holiday Inn , and for two of Lucille Ball's songs in the MGM musical version of DuBarry Was a Lady...
.
She later appeared in the NBC version of the television series
The Life of RileyThe Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, was a popular American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film and continued as a long-running television series during the 1950s, originally with Jackie Gleason playing Bendix's role.The show...
(1953-1958).
On February 1, 1997, having suffered from congestive heart disease, she collapsed and died in
Manhattan Beach, CaliforniaManhattan Beach is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, USA. The population was 33,852 at the 2000 census. The city is on the Pacific Ocean coast, to the south of El Segundo, and to the north of Hermosa Beach. Manhattan Beach is the home of volleyball and surfing. During...
, while walking her dog. She was 79 years old.
She has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of FameThe Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment museum...
.
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