Marjorie Gateson

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Marjorie Gateson, 1920

Marjorie Augusta Gateson (born January 17, 1891 in Brooklyn , New York , † April 17, 1977 there ) was an American actress .

Life

Marjorie Gateson was born in Brooklyn in 1891 to Augusta Virginia, a speech teacher, and Daniel T. Gateson, an entrepreneur . Her maternal grandfather was John D. Kennedy, a pastor at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Gateson, who grew up with two brothers and a sister, attended the Packer Collegiate Institute and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, where her mother gave speech classes. Through her mother, she discovered her love for the theater early on. In 1912 she was on stage for Walter Damrosch's musical The Dove of Peace for the first time on New York's Broadway , where she appeared regularly as an actress until 1930, especially in musical comedies.

In 1931 she went to Hollywood , where she was henceforth often used in supporting roles as a lady of high society. In the crime comedy The Womanizer , she played in 1933 alongside James Cagney . A year later she starred alongside Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in Clarence Brown's drama In Golden Chains (1934). She had other appearances in His Secretary (1936) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, in Geronimo, the Scourge of the Prairie (1939) and in the two film musicals Reich you will never (1941) and The Sky's the Limit (1943). In the late 1940s she turned to American television, where she mainly worked for the following decade. In 1954 she appeared for the last time on Broadway in a performance of the musical Show Boat .

Due to a stroke, Gateson had to end her acting career early. She died of pneumonia in New York in 1977 at the age of 86 . She was buried in Maspeth in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Marjorie Gateson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Parker: Who's Who in the Theater: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage . I. Pitman, 1967, p. 634.
  2. ↑ a b c Axel Nissen: Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids. Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood . McFarland, 2012, pp. 88ff.
personal data
SURNAME Gateson, Marjorie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gateson, Marjorie Augusta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1977
Place of death Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States