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Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.
Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925).
After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936.
After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
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21 September 1935
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies.
26 November 1924
Clever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Cornelia cannot bring herself to deliberately pursue them.
27 January 1918
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her Sweetheart.” But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart.
02 March 1919
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
04 March 1933
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
19 March 1932
Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires.
25 March 1933
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
30 December 1930
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
08 May 1921
Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler.
15 October 1932
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution.
19 April 1924
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
10 May 1919
This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
20 June 1926
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift.
07 November 1925
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act.
01 January 1930
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
17 April 1920
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined.
25 October 1925
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
27 September 1926
Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts.
07 March 1931
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
07 March 1942
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
13 February 1936
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
06 July 1929
When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is engaged to Eileen Stanley.
01 January 1919
Shows brief glimpses into the lives of movie stars of the time. Included is shots of Elsie Janis in her garden in Tarrytown, where she gives an impersonation of Mary Pickford.
01 August 1924
A pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer for wealthy heiress Margaret Waring.
08 November 1926
Dr. Josef Rittenhaus, a popular young society physician of Vienna, at the behest of his friend Waldstein, goes to consider a proposal by Countess von Nessa to donate a site and funds for the erection of a new sanitarium.
11 December 1928
Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus.
11 August 1918
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks.
24 December 1922
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters.
13 February 1921
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor.
08 August 1931
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
12 September 1930
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands.
21 August 1931
Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who s
31 October 1927
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down.
20 August 1928
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings.
17 March 1926
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; there he finds solace in the charms of Roxana, and he soon is making excuses to his wife for his frequent absences from home.
25 February 1928
After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
10 April 1931
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
15 January 1926
Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life.
26 November 1923
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride.
05 April 1930
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor.
01 January 1943
This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
01 November 1933
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk.
15 June 1924
Newly rich Mark Hadley drifts from his old-fashioned wife into a secret liason with Lila Millas, a pretty French girl.
26 June 1922
Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
18 October 1935
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
10 February 1932
Fed up with her tiny hometown, Cassie Barnes moves to New York City to find a job. She and her two friends, Dot and Gladys, soon have romantic troubles.
18 January 1927
Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation.
01 November 1928
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
30 September 1923
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
01 January 1928
This is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged over money matters.
18 August 1924
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
02 March 1929
Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
11 February 1939
In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself.
08 April 1917
An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.
22 April 1917
Short comedy
01 July 1924
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie.
24 September 1921
Vivacious Marie Prevost starred in this pleasant little Universal comedy about a flirt who stages moonlight dances at her father's country estate in order to provoke eligible men to fall in love with her.
01 August 1925
Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
22 May 1922
Constance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her desire for romance such as he does not give her.
20 October 1931
In order to be able to buy a gas station, a young couple run a speakeasy. Complications arise when the husband loses their money to bookies.
