Marceline Day

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Marceline Day (1928), portrait by Ruth Harriet Louise

Marceline Day (born April 24, 1908 in Colorado Springs , Colorado as Marceline Newlin , † February 16, 2000 in Cathedral City , California ) was an American film actress .

life and career

Marceline Day was born in Colorado but grew up in Salt Lake City . At the age of 16 she followed her older sister, actress Alice Day (1905-1995), into the film business in Hollywood. Her first roles were with the comedy producer Mack Sennett , who used her in several comedies alongside Harry Langdon and Charley Chase . Her popularity grew rapidly and in terms of success she even overtook her sister, who was a well-known actress herself. In 1926 Day was chosen as a promising young star among the WAMPAS Baby Stars . The following year she had numerous successes: At midnight she played alongside horror star Lon Chaney , in Der Bettelpoet the female lead alongside Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Conrad Veidt and in Der Fürst der Adventurer as Serafina, the partner of lead actor Ramón Novarro . In 1928 she had what is perhaps her best-known appearance on the side of Buster Keaton in The Cameraman . In 1929 she played with her sister in the musical The Show of Shows .

Marceline Day mainly shot for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , where she was given roles as “young naive”. She mastered the transition from silent to sound film at the end of the 1920s thanks to her pleasant, attractive voice; her first sound film was The Jazz Age from 1929. In the early 1930s, however, she separated from MGM, whereupon she had to work mainly for smaller film studios with low budgets. After a series of rather second-rate adventure and action films, she retired from the film business in 1933. In total, she appeared in 64 films from 1924 to 1933. The actress was married twice and had no children. In later years she declined interviews about her film career. She died in Cathedral City, California in 2000 at the age of 91.

Filmography (selection)

Marceline Day (1926)
  • 1924: Picking Peaches (short film)
  • 1925: The Taming of the West
  • 1925: The White Outlaw
  • 1926: That Model from Paris
  • 1927: At midnight (London After Midnight)
  • 1927: The Bettelpoet (The Beloved Rogue)
  • 1927: The Prince of Adventurers (The Road to Romance)
  • 1927: Captain Salvation
  • 1928: The Chicago crime reporter (Freedom of the Press)
  • 1928: The Lady Behind the Curtain (A Certain Young Man)
  • 1928: Buster Keaton, the film reporter (The Cameraman)
  • 1929: The Show of Shows
  • 1929: The Jazz Age
  • 1929: The Wild Party
  • 1931: Mystery Train
  • 1932: The Crusader
  • 1932: Broadway to Cheyenne
  • 1932: The King Murder
  • 1933: Damaged Lives
  • 1933: The Telegraph Trail
  • 1933: The Fighting Parson

Web links

Commons : Marceline Day  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marceline Day (1908-2000) In: goldensilents.com (English).
  2. ↑ Biography by Sandra Brennan. In: allemovie.com (English).
  3. ↑ Marceline Day. In: findagrave.com (English).
personal data
SURNAME Day, Marceline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newlin, Marceline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Colorado Springs , Colorado , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2000
Place of death Cathedral City , California , United States