1. Marjorie White entered show business at age 8 or age 10, as one of the Winnipeg Kiddies, a troupe of child performers who toured Canada and the United States.
17 Facts About Marjorie White
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Marjorie White danced and sang with the troupe until too old to continue; then at age 17, in December 1921, she went to San Francisco and joined Thelma Wolpa in amateur vaudeville comedy.
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Marjorie White married Eddie Tierney on August 10,1924, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Marjorie White appeared on Broadway in several musicals between 1926 and 1929, when her husband and she moved to Hollywood.
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Marjorie White began getting parts in pictures, starting with leading roles in Happy Days and Sunny Side Up.
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Marjorie White returned to Broadway for a musical, Hot-Cha, in 1932, but came back to Hollywood thereafter.
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Marjorie White can be recognized by fans of "Charlie Chan" films in a prominent, if brief, uncredited role in the 1931 Fox film The Black Camel starring Warner Oland and featuring Bela Lugosi and Robert Young in what may have been his first leading role.
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Marjorie White appeared as a forward, and rather sarcastic, young woman among the usual group of suspects held waiting upon the conclusion of Charlie's investigation.
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In 1933, Marjorie White had a featured role in the Joseph Mankiewicz-scripted political satire Diplomaniacs starring the team of Wheeler and Woolsey.
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Marjorie White is Dolores, a femme fatale custom-ordered by the film's villain to seduce Willy and steal secret plans from him.
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Wheeler and Marjorie White's duet "Sing for Me" is performed while the tiny Marjorie White physically assaults Wheeler because he is reluctant to sing to her in a send-up of the typical boy-girl romantic song scenes of the era.
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Marjorie White appeared with Joan Crawford in Possessed in 1931.
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Marjorie White was in the Fox feature films Just Imagine and New Movietone Follies of 1930.
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Marjorie White is best remembered for her co-starring role in the first Three Stooges short made at Columbia Pictures, Woman Haters, in which she played the new wife of Larry Fine, who he needs to keep secret from his fellow Woman Haters Club members.
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Marjorie White was riding with Lovell in the open car because another member of the party, Gloria Gould, was without a wrap.
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Marjorie White died of internal hemorrhaging the next day, August 21,1935, at a Hollywood hospital.
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Marjorie White was buried at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery.