Marie Prevost
Known for: Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
1933
Film
Hands Across the Table
Nona
1935
Film
Down on the Farm
The Faithful Wife
1920
Film
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Rosalie
1931
Film
Ladies of Leisure
Dot Lamarr
1930
Film
Love, Honor and Behave
Newlywed Bride
1920
Film
13 Hours by Air
Waitress in Omaha
1936
Film
Man Bait
Madge Dreyer
1927
Film
It's a Wise Child
Annie Ostrom
1931
Film
Party Girl
Diana Hoster
1930
Film
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
A Daughter of Belgium
1919
Film
Getting Gertie's Garter
Gertie Darling
1927
Film
Other Women's Husbands
Kay Lambert
1926
Film
The Godless Girl
Mame
1928
Tango
Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
1936
Film
Ten Laps to Go
Elsie, Cafe Waitress
1936
Film
Bobbed Hair
Connemara Moore
1925
Film
The Good Bad Girl
Trixie Barnes
1931
Film
Recompense
Julie Gmelyn
1925
Sunshine
1916
Film
Don't Get Personal
Patricia Parker
1922
Film
Three Women
Harriet
1924
Film
The Lover of Camille
Marie Duplessis
1924
Film
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
(archive footage)
1943
Film
The Beautiful and Damned
1922
Film
Unto Those Who Sin
Celeste
1916
Film
Her Night of Nights
Molly May Mahone
1922
Film
Almost a Lady
Marcia Blake
1926
Film
The Runaround
Margy
1931
Film
The Marriage Circle
Mizzi Stock
1924
Film
Up in Mabel's Room
Mabel Ainsworth
1926
Film
Why Beaches Are Popular
Bathing Girl
1919
Film
She Sighed by the Seaside
The Beach Girl
1921
Film
Only Yesterday
Amy (Uncredited)
1933
Film
A Small Town Idol
Marcelle
1939
Film
How to Educate a Wife
Mabel Todd
1924
Film
Heroes of the Street
Betty Benton
1922
Film
A Small Town Idol
Marcelle Mansfield
1921
Film
The Racket
Helen Hayes
1928
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Lady Platt's Niece
1917
Film
The Flying Fool
Pat Riley
1929
Film
For Wives Only
Laura Rittenhaus
1926
Wedding Yells
Winifred Snood
1942
Film
Three Wise Girls
Dot
1932
Film
Hell Divers
Lulu
1932
Film
The Dangerous Little Demon
Teddy Harmon
1922
Film
The Girl in the Pullman
Irene Burton
1927
Film
A Blonde for a Night
Marie
1928
Film
War Nurse
Rosalie
1930
Film
Sporting Blood
Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
1931
Film
Kissed
1922
Film
Gentleman's Fate
Mabel
1931
Film
She Loved Him Plenty
1918
Film
His Jazz Bride
Gloria Gregory
1926
Film
Kiss Me Again
LouLou Fleury
1925
Film
Paid
Agnes Lynch
1930
Film
Daughters of Pleasure
Marjory Hadley
1924
Film
Carnival Boat
Babe
1932
Film
Parole Girl
Jeanie
1933
Film
Sweethearts on Parade
Nita
1930
Film
Slightly Married
Nellie Gordon
1932
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
Herself
1919
Film
Being Respectable
Valerie Winship
1924
Film
Cornered
1924
Film
Her Nature Dance
The Cashier
1917
Film
Nobody's Fool
1921
Film
The Wanters
Myra Hastings
1923
Film
Call a Cop
The Banker's Daughter
1921
Film
The Eleventh Commandment
Tessie Florin
1933
Film
The Cave Man
Myra Gaylord
1926
Reckless Living
Alice
1931
Film
Brass
Marjorie Jones
1923
Film
A Parisian Scandal
1921
Film
Death Scenes
Self (archive footage)
1989
Film
The Hollywood Kid
Self
1924
Film
Tarnish
Nettie Dark
1924
Film
The Dark Swan
Eve Quinn
1924
Two Crooks
The Girl
1917
Film
The Rush Hour
Margie Dolan
1927
Film
Divorce Made Easy
Mabel Deering
1929
Film
His Hidden Purpose
The Girl in the Case
1918
Film
Red Lights
Ruth Carson
1923
Film
All Faces West
Arleta Vance
1929
Film
The Married Flapper
Pamela Billings
1922
Film
The Sideshow
Queenie Parker
1928
Film
Seven Sinners
Molly Brian
1925
Film
Keystone Hotel
Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
1935
Film
On to Reno
Vera
1928
Film
Moonlight Follies
Nan Rutledge
1921