Marion Martin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Marion Martin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Marion Martin (born Marion Suplee, June , â€" August , ) was an

American film and stage actress.Martin was born in Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became

an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash

of , and appeared in the Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet

Adeline.She made her film debut in She's My Lillie, I'm Her Willie and

subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her

early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a

singer. By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles

in several "B" pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in

James Whale's Sinners in Paradise (). Despite her success she was

often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl

Friday (). The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also

appeared in dramas such as Boom Town () in which she played a dance

hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. She played

secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "Mexican Spitfire" films in the

early s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store,

where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo.She played a ghost in

Gildersleeve's Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight

between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul

Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in . Her more substantial roles

included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of

Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also

appeared in The Big Street () with Lucille Ball, in the western The

Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and in The Great Mike at PRC in .
Marion Martin Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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