Joan Marsh

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Joan Marsh (1931)

Joan Marsh , active in silent films as Dorothy Rosher , born Dorothy D. Rosher (born July 10, 1914 in Porterville , California , † August 10, 2000 in Ojai , California) was an American actress and businesswoman.

Life

Dorothy D. Rosher came to film as a toddler through her father, cameraman Charles Rosher . Her father made sure that his blonde girl appeared as Dorothy Rosher in toddler age with tiny roles from 1917 to 1920 in Mary Pickford 's star vehicles that he photographed and thus temporarily developed into a children's semistar in silent film. Right at the beginning of her career, the five-year-old was seen as a partner of Charlie Chaplin (in his short film Die Anleihe ).

With the dawn of the sound film age, the attractive young woman, who bore an unmistakable resemblance to Jean Harlow , returned to the camera in 1930 under the newly chosen pseudonym Joan Marsh. She sang in the first Marsh film with Bing Crosby , and the following year she was a film partner of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable (in the wrong ways of life ) and Greta Garbo (in Yvonne ). Joan Marsh then played supporting and a few leading roles in largely insignificant B-films , but her appearance at Garbo's side in the high-quality A production Anna Karenina was very small.

Marsh's first husband (1938-1943) was the screenwriter Charles Belden (1904-1954). Married in second marriage since 1943, Joan Marsh withdrew from the celluloid industry the following year after her film contract expired and devoted herself to her private life. With the company “Paper Unlimited” she also ran a thriving stationery shop.

Joan Marsh's half-brother (from a later marriage of her father Charles) was the cinematographer Charles Rosher junior .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1915: Hearts Aflame
  • 1917: The Little Princess
  • 1918: Cook for Everything (How Could You, Jean?)
  • 1918: Johanna Enlists
  • 1918: The loan
  • 1918: The Mysterious Treasure (Captain Kidd Jr.)
  • 1919: My dear sweet Uncle Langbein (Daddy Longlegs)
  • 1920: Sun in the Heart (Pollyanna)
  • 1920: The novel of a little laundress (Suds)
  • 1921: The Little Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
  • 1930: The King of Jazz
  • 1931: The wrong ways of life (Dance Fool Dance)
  • 1931: Yvonne (inspiration)
  • 1932: Are You Listening?
  • 1932: Speed ​​Demon
  • 1933: High Gear
  • 1933: Three-Cornered Moon
  • 1934: You're Telling Me!
  • 1934: We're Rich Again
  • 1935: Anna Karenina
  • 1936: What Becomes of the Children?
  • 1937: Hot Water
  • 1937: Charlie Chan on Broadway
  • 1938: The Lady Objects
  • 1939: Idiot's Delight
  • 1939: Fast and Loose
  • 1940: Blame it on Love (short film)
  • 1941: The Road to Zanzibar (Road to Zanzibar)
  • 1942: The Man in the Trunk
  • 1942: Police Bullets
  • 1943: Secret Service in Darkest Africa
  • 1943: Mr. Muggs Steps Out
  • 1944: Follow the Leader

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition. Revised by Fred Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 905.

Web links

Commons : Joan Marsh  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rosher / Marsh in the californiabirthindex
  2. ^ Rosher / Marsh on ancestry.com
  3. ↑ therefore the year of birth 1913, which is often read, is wrong
  4. ^ David Ragan: Who's Who in Hollywood 1900–1976. New York 1976, p. 276
personal data
SURNAME Marsh, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosher, Dorothy; Rosher, Dorothy D. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Porterville , California
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2000
Place of death Ojai , California