Polly Moran
Polly Moran; actually: Theresa Pauline Moran ( born June 28, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois, † January 25, 1952 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film actress.
Life
The actress began her career as a comedian in vaudeville and turned since 1913, countless short films, called One Reeler for Mack Sennett. Her breakthrough as a popular star of the late silent movies and early sound era they had in 1927, when MGM brought them the first time with the actress Marie Dressler together as a team on the big screen. Cases, the two actresses were seen as landlords that do not actually like each other, but their children fall in love. Their joint performances as a comedy duo were so popular that Louis B. Mayer personally ordered that the film Prosperity, she turned in 1932, which asked in a humorous way with the stock market crash of 1929, had to be filmed entirely new, after a test screening scathing reviews had introduced.
While Marie Dressler, however, as a solo star quickly ascended to the top of the most popular movie stars and won the Oscar for Best Actress at the Academy Awards in 1931, remained the career of Polly Moran in the mediocrity and they never got beyond supporting roles. With the beginning of the 1940s she retired in the face of missing rolls back into private life. Trying to start towards the end of the decade a comeback, but failed.