One of the early sound era's most attractive young leading ladies, doll-faced Marian Marsh enjoyed a short yet significant film career as the star of several memorable 1930s melodramas opposite some of the cinema's best, most charismatic lead actors. Her youthful, wide-eyed innocence combined with an innate delicacy to make a storybook heroine who was the perfect counterbalance to the licentious characters who often menaced her on film. So successful was she as a damsel in distress that she quickly became typecast, which impeded her development as an actress and helped bring her film career to a premature end. The youngest of four children of a German chocolate manufacturer and his British wife, the future star was born Violet Ethelred Krauth on October 17, 1913, on the island of Trinidad, British West Indies. When World War I ruined his business, Mr. Krauth moved the family to Massachusetts, where his children developed an appreciation for the arts and theater.
Movie | House of Errors | Florence Randall | 1942-04-10 |
Movie | Murder by Invitation | Nora O'Brien | 1941-06-30 |
Movie | Gentleman from Dixie | Margaret Terrill | 1941-09-02 |
Movie | Missing Daughters | Josie Lamonte | 1939-05-22 |
Movie | A Desperate Adventure | Ann Carrington | 1938-08-05 |
Movie | Prison Nurse | Judy | 1938-03-02 |
Movie | When's Your Birthday? | Jerry Grant | 1937-02-19 |
Movie | The Great Gambini | Ann Randall | 1937-06-24 |
Movie | Saturday's Heroes | Francis | 1937-10-08 |
Movie | Youth on Parole | Bonnie Blair | 1937-10-04 |
Movie | The Man Who Lived Twice | Janet Haydon | 1936-09-25 |
Movie | Counterfeit | Verna Maxwell | 1936-05-25 |
Movie | Come Closer, Folks | Peggy Woods | 1936-11-07 |
Movie | In Spite of Danger | Sally Sullivan | 1935-03-08 |
Movie | The Black Room | Thea Hassel | 1935-07-15 |
Movie | Crime and Punishment | Sonya | 1935-11-22 |
Movie | The Prodigal Son | Lilian Williams | 1934-09-06 |
Movie | Over the Garden Wall | Mary | 1934-06-20 |
Movie | A Girl of the Limberlost | Elnora Comstock | 1934-10-14 |
Movie | Daring Daughters | Terry Cummings | 1933-03-23 |
Movie | The Eleventh Commandment | Corinne Ross | 1933-03-25 |
Movie | A Man of Sentiment | Julia Wilkens | 1933-09-15 |
Movie | Notorious But Nice | Jenny Jones | 1933-08-04 |
Movie | Alias the Doctor | Lotti Brenner | 1932-02-25 |
Movie | Beauty and the Boss | Susie Sachs | 1932-04-09 |
Movie | Under Eighteen | Margie Evans | 1932-01-02 |
Movie | Strange Justice | Rose Abbott | 1932-10-07 |
Movie | The Sport Parade | Irene Stewart | 1932-11-11 |
Movie | The Road to Singapore | Rene March | 1931-09-02 |
Movie | Svengali | Trilby O'Farrell | 1931-05-20 |
Movie | Five Star Final | Jenny Townsend | 1931-09-26 |
Movie | The Mad Genius | Nana Carlova | 1931-09-30 |
Movie | Whoopee! | Harriett Underwood (uncredited) | 1930-09-26 |
Movie | Hell's Angels | Girl Selling Kisses | 1930-11-15 |
Movie | The Naughty Flirt | Kay's Friend (uncredited) | 1930-12-17 |
Movie | The Sophomore | Minor Role (uncredited) | 1929-08-24 |
Movie | Fashion News | Self (1930) (as Marilyn Morgan) | 1928-11-06 |