Marjorie Burnet Rambeau (July , â€" July , ) was an American film and
stage actress. She began her stage career at age , and appeared in
several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, Her Man
(). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for her roles in Primrose Path () and Torch Song (), and
received the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting
Actress for her roles in A Man Called Peter and The View from Pompey's
Head.Rambeau was born in San Francisco to Marcel and Lilian Garlinda
(née Kindelberger) Rambeau. Her parents separated when she was a
child. She and her mother went to Nome, Alaska, where young Marjorie
dressed as a boy, sang, and played the banjo in saloons and music
halls. Her mother insisted she dress as a boy to thwart amorous
attention from drunken grown men in such a wild and woolly outpost as
Nome. She began performing on the stage at the age of . She attained
theatrical experience in a rambling early life as a strolling player.
Finally she made her Broadway debut on March , , in a tryout of
Willard Mack's play, Kick In.In her youth she was a Broadway leading
lady, starring in plays such as the comedy Sadie Love. In , Dorothy
Parker memorialized her in verse:
stage actress. She began her stage career at age , and appeared in
several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, Her Man
(). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for her roles in Primrose Path () and Torch Song (), and
received the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting
Actress for her roles in A Man Called Peter and The View from Pompey's
Head.Rambeau was born in San Francisco to Marcel and Lilian Garlinda
(née Kindelberger) Rambeau. Her parents separated when she was a
child. She and her mother went to Nome, Alaska, where young Marjorie
dressed as a boy, sang, and played the banjo in saloons and music
halls. Her mother insisted she dress as a boy to thwart amorous
attention from drunken grown men in such a wild and woolly outpost as
Nome. She began performing on the stage at the age of . She attained
theatrical experience in a rambling early life as a strolling player.
Finally she made her Broadway debut on March , , in a tryout of
Willard Mack's play, Kick In.In her youth she was a Broadway leading
lady, starring in plays such as the comedy Sadie Love. In , Dorothy
Parker memorialized her in verse:
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