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Occupation
  
Actress

Years active
  
1929–1935


Name
  
Marjorie White

Role
  
Actress

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Full Name
  
Marjorie Ann Guthrie

Born
  
July 22, 1904 (
1904-07-22
)

Died
  
August 21, 1935, Hollywood, California, United States

Spouse
  
Eddie Tierney (m. 1924–1935)

Marriage location
  
Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Movies
  
Just Imagine, Woman Haters, New Movietone Follies of, Sunny Side Up, Happy Days

Similar People
  
David Butler, William A Seiter, Mervyn LeRoy, William Beaudine

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Marjorie White (July 22, 1904 – August 21, 1935) was a Canadian-born actress of stage and film.

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Career

Marjorie White

Born Marjorie Ann Guthrie in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, she was the first-born child of a grain merchant born in Simcoe, Ontario. She 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. She 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.

Teamed for a time with Thelma Wolpa as Wolpa and Guthrie, Little Bits of Everything, the duo act became 'The White Sisters' in New York City. Both women kept the name White after the act broke up. Thelma White later gained immortality as the blowsy Mae in Reefer Madness. According to the New York Times (August 11, 1924), Marjorie White married Eddie Tierney on August 10, 1924 in Greenwich, Connecticut. She appeared on Broadway in several musicals between 1926 and 1929, when she and her husband moved to Hollywood. In accordance with studio tradition, four years were knocked off her birth date and she was supposedly born in 1908. Early biographies of James Cagney, the Marx Brothers and Bing Crosby typically gave birthdates occurring five years after the actual event.

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She began getting parts in pictures, starting with leading roles in Happy Days (1929) and Sunny Side Up (1929). The same year she was required by executives of the Fox Film studio to lose four pounds in order to secure a role in The New Orleans Frolic. White was diminutive to begin with, weighing only 103 pounds and standing 4'10" tall. The part called for a woman who weighed less than 100 pounds. She returned to Broadway for a musical, Hot-Cha, in 1932, but came back to Hollywood thereafter.

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She will also 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. Marjorie appeared as a forward, and rather sarcastic, young woman among the usual group of suspects held waiting upon the conclusion of Charlie's investigation.

In 1933, White had a featured role in the Joseph Mankiewicz-scripted political satire Diplomaniacs starring the team of Wheeler and Woolsey. Marjorie is Dolores, a femme fatale custom-ordered by the film's villain (she arrives wrapped in plastic from a chute in the wall) to seduce Willy (Bert Wheeler) and steal secret plans from him. Wheeler and White's duet "Sing For Me" is performed while the tiny 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.

She also appeared with Joan Crawford in "Possessed" in 1931. She was also in the Fox feature films Just Imagine and New Movietone Follies of 1930 (both 1930).

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White is perhaps best remembered for her co-starring role in the first Three Stooges short made at Columbia Pictures, Woman Haters (1934), in which she played the new wife of Larry Fine, who he needs to keep secret from his fellow Woman-Haters Club members (who are both "pitching woo" at her behind Larry's back). The entire comedy short is done in rhyming verse. Woman Haters was her last film.

Death

On August 20, 1935, White was a passenger in a car driven by Marlow M. Lovell on the Roosevelt Highway near the Bel Air Beach Club, in Santa Monica, California. It sideswiped the car of a couple who had been married only an hour before, and overturned. A coroner's jury decided that the reckless driving of Lovell was to blame for the accident. White was riding with Lovell in the open car because another member of the party, Gloria Gould, was without a wrap. Gould was following Lovell's car in another vehicle with White's husband. White was the only person seriously injured. She died of internal hemorrhaging the next day, August 21, 1935, at a Hollywood hospital.

She was buried at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever Cemetery). She was survived by her husband, her parents Robert and Nettie, and siblings Orville, Morley, Stewart, and Belva.

Filmography

Actress
1934
Woman Haters (Short) as
Mary
1933
Her Bodyguard as
Lita
1933
Diplomaniacs as
Dolores
1931
Hollywood Halfbacks (Short)
1931
Possessed as
Vernice LaVerne
1931
Broadminded as
Penny Packer
1931
The Black Camel as
Rita Ballou (uncredited)
1931
Women of All Nations as
Margie - aka Pee Wee (uncredited)
1931
Charlie Chan Carries On as
Sadie
1930
Oh, for a Man! as
Totsy Franklin
1930
Just Imagine as
D-6
1930
New Movietone Follies of 1930 as
Vera Fontaine
1930
Her Golden Calf as
Alice
1929
Sunny Side Up as
Bea Nichols
1929
Happy Days as
Margie
Soundtrack
1933
Diplomaniacs (performer: "Sing To Me" (1933), "No More War" (1933) - uncredited)
1930
Just Imagine (performer: "Mothers Ought to Tell Their Daughters" (1930), "Never Swat a Fly" (1930) - uncredited)
1930
New Movietone Follies of 1930 (performer: "I'd Love To Be a Talking Picture Queen")
1929
Sunny Side Up ("SUNNY SIDE UP") / (performer: "YOU'VE GOT ME PICKIN' PETALS OFF O' DAISIES", "IT'S GREAT TO BE NECKED")
1929
Happy Days ("I'm on a Diet of Love", uncredited) / (performer: "I'm on a Diet of Love" - uncredited)
Self
1930
The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (Short) as
Self
Archive Footage
2015
Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (TV Series documentary) as
Various characters
- Eureka! (2015) - Various characters (uncredited)
- Slap Happy (2015) - Various characters (uncredited)
- A Stooge Is Born (2015) - Various characters (uncredited)
2004
Stooges Slap Happy Hour (TV Series) as
Mary
- Woman Haters/Punch Drunks (2004) - Mary

References

Marjorie White Wikipedia


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