Marie Prevost
- Teen actor
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Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.
Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925).
After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936.
After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
Acted in
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
as (archive footage)
Wedding Yells
1942
as Winifred Snood
A Small Town Idol
1939
as Marcelle
Ten Laps to Go
1936
as Elsie, Cafe Waitress
13 Hours by Air
1936
as Waitress in Omaha
Tango
1936
as Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
Hands Across the Table
1935
as Nona
Keystone Hotel
1935
as Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
Only Yesterday
1933
as Amy (Uncredited)
The Eleventh Commandment
1933
as Tessie Florin
Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
1933
Parole Girl
1933
as Jeanie Vance
Slightly Married
1932
as Nellie Gordon
Carnival Boat
1932
as Babe
Three Wise Girls
1932
as Dot
Hell Divers
1932
as Lulu
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Rosalie
Reckless Living
1931
as Alice
The Runaround
1931
as Margy
Sporting Blood
1931
as Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
The Good Bad Girl
1931
as Trixie Barnes
It's a Wise Child
1931
as Annie Ostrom
Gentleman's Fate
1931
as Mabel
Paid
1930
as Agnes Lynch
War Nurse
1930
as Rosalie
Sweethearts on Parade
1930
as Nita
Ladies of Leisure
1930
as Dot Lamarr
Party Girl
1930
as Diana Hoster
The Flying Fool
1929
as Pat Riley
Divorce Made Easy
1929
as Mabel Deering
All Faces West
1929
as Arleta Vance
The Sideshow
1928
as Queenie Parker
The Racket
1928
as Helen Hayes
The Godless Girl
1928
as Mame
A Blonde for a Night
1928
as Marie
On to Reno
1928
as Vera
The Rush Hour
1927
as Margie Dolan
The Girl in the Pullman
1927
as Irene Burton
Getting Gertie's Garter
1927
as Gertie Darling
Man Bait
1927
as Madge Dreyer
Almost a Lady
1926
as Marcia Blake
Up in Mabel's Room
1926
as Mabel Ainsworth
Other Women's Husbands
1926
as Kay Lambert
The Cave Man
1926
as Myra Gaylord
His Jazz Bride
1926
as Gloria Gregory
Seven Sinners
1925
as Molly Brian
Bobbed Hair
1925
as Connemara Moore
Kiss Me Again
1925
as LouLou Fleury
Recompense
1925
as Julie Gmelyn
The Dark Swan
1924
as Eve Quinn
The Lover of Camille
1924
as Marie Duplessis
Three Women
1924
as Harriet
Tarnish
1924
as Nettie Dark
Cornered
1924
Being Respectable
1924
as Valerie Winship
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
as Marjory Hadley
How to Educate a Wife
1924
as Mabel Todd
The Hollywood Kid
1924
as Self
The Marriage Circle
1924
as Mizzi Stock
The Wanters
1923
as Myra Hastings
Red Lights
1923
as Ruth Carson
Brass
1923
as Marjorie Jones
Heroes of the Street
1922
as Betty Benton
The Beautiful and Damned
1922
The Married Flapper
1922
as Pamela Billings
Her Night of Nights
1922
as Molly May Mahone
Kissed
1922
A Parisian Scandal
1921
Nobody's Fool
1921
Moonlight Follies
1921
as Nan Rutledge
Call a Cop
1921
as The Banker's Daughter
She Sighed by the Seaside
1921
as The Beach Girl
A Small Town Idol
1921
as Marcelle Mansfield
Down on the Farm
1920
as The Faithful Wife
Why Beaches Are Popular
1919
as Bathing Girl
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919
as A Daughter of Belgium
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
1919
as Herself
She Loved Him Plenty
1918
His Hidden Purpose
1918
as The Girl in the Case
Two Crooks
1917
as The Girl
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
1917
as Lady Platt's Niece
Her Nature Dance
1917
as The Cashier
Sunshine
1916
Unto Those Who Sin
1916
as Celeste