Marjorie Rambeau

Born: 1889-07-15

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marjorie Burnet Rambeau (July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970) was an American film and stage actress. She began her stage career at age 12, and appeared in several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, Her Man (1930). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Primrose Path (1940) and Torch Song (1953), and received the 1955 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in A Man Called Peter and The View from Pompey's Head.


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The Rains Came

as Mrs. Simon
Released: 1939-09-15

Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the...

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Tobacco Road

as Sister Bessie Rice
Released: 1941-02-20

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...

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Man of a Thousand Faces

as Gert
Released: 1957-08-15

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon...

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Breakdowns of 1938

as Marjorie (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1938-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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Salome, Where She Danced

as Madam Europe
Released: 1945-04-17

During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after...

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Any Number Can Play

as Sarah Calbern
Released: 1949-07-15

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to...

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A Man Called Peter

as Miss Laura Fowler
Released: 1955-03-31

Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea...

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Abandoned

as Mrs. Donner
Released: 1949-10-26

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

as Mamie
Released: 1939-11-03

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in...

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The Secret Six

as Peaches
Released: 1931-04-18

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang,...

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20 Mule Team

as Josie Johnson
Released: 1940-05-03

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining...

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Merrily We Live

as Mrs. Harlan
Released: 1938-03-04

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest...

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Bad for Each Other

as Mrs. Roger Nelson
Released: 1953-12-24

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and...

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In Old Oklahoma

as Bessie Baxter
Released: 1943-12-06

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in...

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Hell Divers

as Mame Kelsey
Released: 1932-01-16

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

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Torch Song

as Mrs. Stewart
Released: 1953-10-01

Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there...

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Grand Canary

as Daisy Hemingway
Released: 1934-07-20

Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in...

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Man's Castle

as Flossie
Released: 1933-11-20

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will...

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Son of India

as Mrs. Darsay
Released: 1931-08-01

An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

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Slander

as Mrs. Manley
Released: 1957-01-18

A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.

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Strangers May Kiss

as Geneva
Released: 1931-04-04

After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy,...

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Min and Bill

as Bella Pringle
Released: 1930-11-29

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of...

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The View from Pompey's Head

as Lucy Devereaux Wales
Released: 1955-11-04

Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His...

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The Walls of Jericho

as Mrs. Dunham
Released: 1948-11-22

In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another...

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Woman Against Woman

as Mrs. Kingsley
Released: 1938-06-24

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling...

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Primrose Path

as Mamie Adams
Released: 1940-03-22

Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken...

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Forever Female

as Elderly Stage Actress
Released: 1953-11-28

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

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Laughing Sinners

as Ruby
Released: 1931-05-30

Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting...

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Inspiration

as Lulu
Released: 1931-01-31

The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars...

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First Lady

as Belle Hardwick
Released: 1937-12-04

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

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Three Sons o' Guns

as Aunt Lottie
Released: 1941-08-02

Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

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Left Over Ladies

as The Duchess
Released: 1931-09-30

Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in...

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Ready for Love

as Goldie Tate
Released: 1934-11-30

In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small...

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Her Man

as Annie
Released: 1930-09-21

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

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The Easiest Way

as Elfie St. Clair
Released: 1931-02-07

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door...

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Sudden Money

as Elsie Patterson
Released: 1939-03-31

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father...

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The Lucky Stiff

as Hattie Hatfield
Released: 1949-05-26

A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.

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A Modern Hero

as Mme. Azais
Released: 1934-04-21

A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the...

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Dizzy Dames

as Lillian Bennett / Lillian Marlowe
Released: 1935-05-29

A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.

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Palooka

as Mayme Palooka
Released: 1934-01-26

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle...

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Oh, What a Night!

as Lil Vanderhoven
Released: 1944-09-02

An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.

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It's Murder She Says...

as Anopheles Annie (voice)
Released: 1945-05-15

A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions...

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Strictly Personal

as Annie Gibson
Released: 1933-03-17

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a...

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Broadway

as Lillian Rice
Released: 1942-05-08

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

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Tugboat Annie Sails Again

as Annie
Released: 1940-10-26

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

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East of the River

as Mama Teresa Lorenzo
Released: 1940-11-09

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other...

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A Tailor-Made Man

as Kitty DuPuy
Released: 1931-03-28

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night,...

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Santa Fe Marshal

as Ma Burton
Released: 1940-01-26

U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a...

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The Debt

as Countess Ann
Released: 1917-04-23

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Syncopating Sue

as Marjorie Rambeau
Released: 1926-10-31

Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career....

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Under Pressure

as Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle
Released: 1935-02-02

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each...

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The Greater Woman

as Auriole Praed
Released: 1917-02-26

Farmer Leo Bannister is obsessed with his neighbor Auriole Praed, but she finds him too strong....

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Army Wives

as Mrs. Shannahan
Released: 1945-01-12

When Jerry Van Dyke, a young debutante, decides to marry Barney, an Army corporal, whom she met...

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National Red Cross Pageant

as America - Final episode
Released: 1917-12-01

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to...

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Motherhood

as Louise
Released: 1917-03-26

European peasants Albert & Louise are separated by war with Albert only able to return once...

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The Common Cause

as Columbia (prologue)
Released: 1919-01-05

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General Electric Theater

as Aunt Sophronie
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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General Electric Theater

as Granny Rutledge
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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