Marion Martin Trailers
Oklahoma Annie TrailerJourney Into Light TrailerMerry Mavericks Trailer
Marion Martin (born Marion Suplee, June 7, 1909 – August 13, 1985) was an American movie and stage actress.
Martin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and appeared in the Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet Adeline.
She made her film debut in She's My Lillie, I'm Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a singer. By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles in several "B" pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in James Whale's Sinners in Paradise (1938). Despite her success she was often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl Friday (1940). The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also appeared in dramas such as Boom Town (1940) in which she played a dance hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. She played secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "Mexican Spitfire" films in the early 1940s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store, where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo.
She played a ghost in Gildersleeve's Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in 1943. Her more substantial roles included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also appeared in The Big Street with Lucille Ball, in the western The Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and in The Great Mike at PRC in 1944.
By the late 1940s, her roles were often minor. Three Stooges fans will remember her as western cowgirl Gladys in Merry Mavericks. She played "Belle Farnol" in a 1950 episode of The Lone Ranger entitled "Pardon for Curley". Shortly afterward, she made her final film appearance in 1952. Married to a physicist, Martin retired, and although she expressed the desire to return to show business, suitable roles were not offered to her.
She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to motion pictures, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. She died in 1985 in Santa Monica, California, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Most Popular Marion Martin Trailers
Total trailers found: 75
13 April 1945
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
24 March 1939
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
29 January 1938
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found.
31 December 1942
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms.
24 January 1941
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
31 December 1943
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City.
07 June 1942
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr.
22 June 1945
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
15 June 1946
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife.
28 November 1941
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
30 November 1940
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
24 January 1945
In this amiable Columbia B musical, society girl Ann Miller escapes her Back Bay family by performing in the chorus line in a burlesque house.
13 March 1942
Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
29 November 1940
A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
13 July 1945
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
15 February 1935
A musical short about a young couple, an artist for an advertising firm and a hopeful model. They try a couple of schemes to get Sally a job with the firm.
24 March 1952
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff.
17 June 1935
A musical short with Richard Himber and His Orchestra at the center of things.
07 February 1941
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
10 September 1941
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
28 June 1946
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
09 March 1946
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
15 September 1944
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country.
26 September 1941
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers.
12 December 1941
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet Jim turns genuinely dismayed once Randy arrives and turns out to be an insufferable, boorish braggart with bad manners and little self-awareness.
04 March 1943
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her.
24 October 1944
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
18 January 1940
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife.
01 June 1944
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
15 November 1944
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike.
11 November 1949
Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
19 January 1942
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
28 September 1951
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation.
01 January 1939
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career.
03 July 1945
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members.
05 August 1942
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it.
02 August 1946
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
13 July 1939
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan.
22 September 1938
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
30 August 1940
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
20 September 1946
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
11 November 1948
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
31 March 1944
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
07 June 1939
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
13 August 1942
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
01 May 1943
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
01 January 1934
As the rather fussy 'Mr. W' is dining in a restaurant, the waiter introduces him to an attractive woman, who sits down at his table.
19 May 1938
The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping.
24 July 1940
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic.
30 December 1939
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
13 March 1942
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
20 June 1941
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
11 November 1938
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.
25 June 1941
A family of hillbillies mistake a radio announcer for their long-lost relative.
04 February 1938
Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride.
07 September 1934
A star goes on a cruise under a false name to enjoy his vacation. When people accidently believe he is a wanted criminal he performs a few acts to prove his real identity.
15 July 1935
Richard Himber and His Orchestra plays us a few songs.
27 July 1949
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
24 July 1946
Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.
11 April 1941
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots.
