1910-12-26 ( 114 years old ) in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930).
She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats.
Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawk's The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Wayne's first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Dracula's Daughter (1936).
She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.
Movies
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023-11-09
Bunco Squad
1950-09-01
Legion of Terror
1936-11-01
Alibi for Murder
1936-09-23
The Final Hour
1936-07-07
Murder by an Aristocrat
1936-06-13
Dracula's Daughter
1936-05-11
The Walking Dead
1936-03-01
Man Hunt
1936-01-29
Speed Devils
1935-07-01
Without Children
1935-04-15
Girl Without a Room
1933-12-08
Forgotten Commandments
1932-05-22
Ambassador Bill
1931-11-13
Riders of the Purple Sage
1931-10-22
Quick Millions
1931-04-17
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931-04-11
Girls Demand Excitement
1931-02-08
The Big Trail
1930-11-01
Good Intentions
1930-06-29
Born Reckless
1930-05-11
Harmony at Home
1930-01-12
Seven Faces
1929-12-01
They Had to See Paris
1929-09-18
The Valiant
1929-05-19
Furnace Trouble
1929-02-04
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