Marjorie Rambeau
Biography
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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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Acting History
1957
Man of a Thousand Faces as Gert
1957Slander as Mrs. Manley
1955The View from Pompey's Head as Lucy Devereaux Wales
1955A Man Called Peter as Miss Laura Fowler
1953Bad for Each Other as Mrs. Roger Nelson
1953Forever Female as Elderly Stage Actress
1953Torch Song as Mrs. Stewart
1953General Electric Theater as Aunt Sophronie
1953General Electric Theater as Granny Rutledge
1949Abandoned as Mrs. Donner
1949Any Number Can Play as Sarah Calbern
1949The Lucky Stiff as Hattie Hatfield
1948The Walls of Jericho as Mrs. Dunham
1945It's Murder She Says... as Anopheles Annie (voice)
1945Salome, Where She Danced as Madam Europe
1945Army Wives as Mrs. Shannahan
1944Oh, What a Night! as Lil Vanderhoven
1943In Old Oklahoma as Bessie Baxter
1942Broadway as Lillian Rice
1941Three Sons o' Guns as Aunt Lottie
1941Tobacco Road as Sister Bessie Rice
1940East of the River as Mama Teresa Lorenzo
1940Tugboat Annie Sails Again as Annie
194020 Mule Team as Josie Johnson
1940Primrose Path as Mamie Adams
1940Santa Fe Marshal as Ma Burton
1939Laugh It Off as Sylvia Swan
1939Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence as Mamie
1939The Rains Came as Mrs. Simon
1939Sudden Money as Elsie Patterson
1938Breakdowns of 1938 as Marjorie (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938Woman Against Woman as Mrs. Kingsley
1938Merrily We Live as Mrs. Harlan
1937First Lady as Belle Hardwick
1935Dizzy Dames as Lillian Bennett / Lillian Marlowe
1935Under Pressure as Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle
1934Ready for Love as Goldie Tate
1934Grand Canary as Daisy Hemingway
1934A Modern Hero as Mme. Azais
1934Palooka as Mayme Palooka
1933Man's Castle as Flossie
1933The Warrior's Husband as Hippolyta
1933Strictly Personal as Annie Gibson
1932Hell Divers as Mame Kelsey
1931Left Over Ladies as The Duchess
1931Son of India as Mrs. Darsay
1931Laughing Sinners as Ruby
1931The Secret Six as Peaches
1931Strangers May Kiss as Geneva
1931A Tailor-Made Man as Kitty DuPuy
1931The Easiest Way as Elfie St. Clair
1931Inspiration as Lulu
1930Min and Bill as Bella Pringle
1930Her Man as Annie
1926Syncopating Sue as Marjorie Rambeau
1919The Common Cause as Columbia (prologue)
1917National Red Cross Pageant as America - Final episode
1917The Dazzling Miss Davison as Rachel - The Dazzling Miss Davison
1917The Debt as Countess Ann
1917Motherhood as Louise
1917The Greater Woman as Auriole Praed