Marguerite Churchill

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Marguerite Churchill (1929)

Marguerite Churchill (born December 26, 1910 in Kansas City , Missouri , † January 9, 2000 in Broken Arrow , Oklahoma ) was an American actress . She gained fame above all as John Wayne's first film partner in the western The Great Trek .

Life

Marguerite Churchill took acting classes at the Professional Children's School in New York as a child . Her father was a theater producer and owner of several theaters, but died when Churchill was ten years old. She made her acting debut on Broadway , where she played her first leading roles at the age of 16. During a screening, Churchill was discovered and signed by an employee of Fox Film Corporation . Her film debut came in 1929 with a small role in the now-lost, early sound film The Diplomats . The first leading role followed in the same year in The Valiant .

Churchill gained fame in 1930 in the female lead in the western The Great Trek at the side of John Wayne in his first lead role. A year later she played Wayne's film partner again in Girls Demand Excitement . In the following years Churchill was mostly seen as the female lead in almost thirty films of various genres, including the 1936 horror film Dracula's Daughter . In 1952 her acting career ended.

From 1933 until their divorce in 1948, Churchill was married to actor George O'Brien . The couple had three children together, including the writer Darcy O'Brien . His novel Margaret in Hollywood , published in 1991, is based on the life of Churchill and her husband. The daughter Orin O'Brien became bassist with the New York Philharmonic . In the 1960s, Churchill lived in Rome and then in Lisbon , before she returned to the United States in the 1990s for health reasons and from then on lived with her son Darcy in Tulsa . He died of a heart attack in March 1998. Marguerite Churchill survived him by almost two years before she died on January 9, 2000 at the age of 89 in a nursing home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1929: The Diplomats
  • 1929: They Had to See Paris
  • 1929: The Valiant
  • 1929: Pleasure Crazed
  • 1930: Born Reckless
  • 1930: The Big Trail (The Big Trail)
  • 1931: Girls Demand Excitement
  • 1931: Quick Millions
  • 1931: Ambassador Bill
  • 1931: Charlie Chan Carries On
  • 1931: Riders of the Purple Sage
  • 1936: The Walking Dead
  • 1936: Dracula's Daughter (Dracula's Daughter)
  • 1950: Bunco Squad
  • 1952: Little Games from Overseas ( Fireside Theater ; TV series, two episodes)

Web links

Commons : Marguerite Churchill  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anthony Slide: Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses . University Press of Kentucky , Lexington 2010, ISBN 978-0-8131-3745-2 , p. 281.
  2. ^ Marguerite Churchill, 90, Movie Actress. In: The New York Times . January 15, 2000, accessed October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Churchill, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2000
Place of death Broken Arrow , Oklahoma , United States