Marie Prevost
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Only Yesterday
as Amy (Uncredited)On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide....
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Ladies of Leisure
as Dot LamarrKay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a...
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Parole Girl
as Jeanie VanceA woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being...
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Hell Divers
as LuluThe story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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Three Wise Girls
as DotRomantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to...
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War Nurse
as RosalieUntrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in...
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Paid
as Agnes LynchMary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she...
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13 Hours by Air
as Waitress in OmahaWomanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to...
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The Racket
as Helen HayesA renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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The Marriage Circle
as Mizzi StockProfessor Stock and his wife Mizzi are unhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife,...
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Keystone Hotel
as Mrs. Clarabelle SterlingThe Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents...
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Hands Across the Table
as NonaA manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as RosalieOut of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send...
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Party Girl
as Diana HosterJay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in...
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The Godless Girl
as MameHigh school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic...
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Carnival Boat
as BabeBuck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants...
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The Good Bad Girl
as Trixie BarnesA woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding...
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Sporting Blood
as Angela 'Angie' LudekingA horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through...
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Slightly Married
as Nellie GordonMary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for...
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Kissed
as uncreditedConstance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her...
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Three Women
as HarrietA frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
as uncreditedIn the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and...
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The Eleventh Commandment
as Tessie FlorinA wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly...
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His Hidden Purpose
as The Girl in the CaseThe movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, “Her...
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The Beautiful and Damned
as uncreditedGloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She...
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The Hollywood Kid
as SelfA short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a...
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The Girl in the Pullman
as Irene BurtonDr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit...
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Seven Sinners
as Molly BrianSix burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch...
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Daughters of Pleasure
as Marjory HadleyNewly rich Mark Hadley drifts from his old-fashioned wife into a secret liason with Lila Millas,...
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Gentleman's Fate
as MabelA bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
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Moonlight Follies
as Nan RutledgeVivacious Marie Prevost starred in this pleasant little Universal comedy about a flirt who...
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as A Daughter of BelgiumBehind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of...
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Kiss Me Again
as LouLou FleuryGaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a...
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It's a Wise Child
as Annie OstromIn this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter...
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Red Lights
as Ruth CarsonA mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
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Cornered
as uncreditedA pair of professional thieves discover that their accomplice, Mary Brennan, is a dead-ringer...
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She Sighed by the Seaside
as The Beach GirlLifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and...
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A Small Town Idol
as Marcelle MansfieldSam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his...
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A Blonde for a Night
as MarieAfter an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a...
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Bobbed Hair
as Connemara MooreMystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Being Respectable
as Valerie WinshipWealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is...
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The Runaround
as MargyFilmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn...
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Heroes of the Street
as Betty BentonWhen a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns...
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Recompense
as Julie GmelynA black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the...
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Getting Gertie's Garter
as Gertie DarlingAttorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives...
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The Cave Man
as Myra GaylordA bored society girl cuts a hundred dollar bill in half, writes a message on one half for...
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The Wanters
as Myra HastingsElliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is...
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All Faces West
as Arleta VanceOutlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
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The Lover of Camille
as Marie DuplessisThe Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont,...
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Up in Mabel's Room
as Mabel AinsworthMabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him,...
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On to Reno
as VeraThis is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged...
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Ten Laps to Go
as Elsie, Cafe WaitressLarry Evans, champion race car driver, is envied by his chief rival, Eddie DeSylva, who has more...
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Why Beaches Are Popular
as Bathing GirlThis short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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Down on the Farm
as The Faithful WifeThe day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing...
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A Parisian Scandal
as uncreditedWithout social or romantic interests, young Basil Hammond goes to Paris to study paleontology...
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Other Women's Husbands
as Kay LambertWhen his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old...
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Unto Those Who Sin
as CelesteNadia, a stenographer, must give her meager earnings to her drunken father. When he shoots his...
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Call a Cop
as The Banker's DaughterCall a Cop is a 1921 comedy short.
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His Jazz Bride
as Gloria GregoryYoung lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally...
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Nobody's Fool
as uncreditedUnattractive and poor Polly Gordon, is taken to the college dance by eligible Vincent DePuyster...
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Sweethearts on Parade
as NitaHelen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire...
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Her Night of Nights
as Molly May MahoneMolly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the...
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Brass
as Marjorie JonesWith her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her...
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How to Educate a Wife
as Mabel ToddBusiness failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms...
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The Flying Fool
as Pat RileyA man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see...
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A Small Town Idol
as MarcelleIn Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel,...
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