Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh, as Violet Ethelred Krauth, ( born October 17, 1913 on Trinidad and Tobago, † 9 November 2006 in Palm Desert, California, also known as Marilyn Morgan and Marian Henderson ) was a Hollywood actress and environmentalist.
Life
Marsh was born in 1913 as the youngest of four children of a German chocolate manufacturer and his British wife in Trinidad and Tobago. During the First World War, the family moved to Massachusetts. Mid-1920s, signing Marian Marsh's older sister Jean a contract with FBO Pictures in Hollywood, what the family caused them to move to the West Coast of the United States. 1928 Marsh was discovered when she accompanied her older sister to test shots. Marsh had a short first film appearance, but was quickly released. She then signed another contract with Samuel Goldwyn and called himself Marilyn Morgan. She started to do a study acting at Nance O'Neil. 1929 signed the 16 -year-old at Warner Bros. and changed its name to Marian Marsh.
Despite their commitment to 30 short films her career seemed to fall asleep when her 1931 opposite John Barrymore with the film Svengali 's breakthrough. In the same year she was voted one of the WAMPAS baby stars of the year and turned more successful films, including The Mad Genius, also with Barrymore as a partner, and The Road to Singapore with William Powell.
1932, after the large advertised Drama Under Eighteen was rated poorly by the critics themselves Marsh separated by Warner, and signed in 1935 a contract with Columbia Pictures. There she turned, among other things, directed Josef von Sternberg's on the side of Peter Lorre Crime and Punishment and together with Boris Karloff The Black Room.
1938 Marsh married Albert Scott, of this marriage had two children. Then she turned, only five films before she retired completely from the film business. Scott died in the late 1950s and Marsh married in 1960 aviation pioneer and entrepreneur Clifford Henderson.