1910-12-26 Kansas City, Missouri, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930). She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats. Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawk's The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Wayne's first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Dracula's Daughter (1936). She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.
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Bunco Squad | Barbara Madison | 1950-09-01 |
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Man Hunt | Jane Carpenter | 1936-01-29 |
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Dracula's Daughter | Janet | 1936-05-11 |
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Legion of Terror | Nancy Foster | 1936-11-01 |
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The Final Hour | Flo Russell | 1936-07-07 |
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Murder by an Aristocrat | Nurse Sally Keating | 1936-06-13 |
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Alibi for Murder | Lois Allen | 1936-09-23 |
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The Walking Dead | Nancy | 1936-03-01 |
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Without Children | Sue Cole | 1935-04-15 |
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Speed Devils | Pat Corey | 1935-07-01 |
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Girl without a Room | Kay Loring | 1933-12-08 |
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Forgotten Commandments | Marya Ossipoff | 1932-05-22 |
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Charlie Chan Carries On | Pamela Potter | 1931-04-11 |
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Girls Demand Excitement | Miriam | 1931-02-08 |
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Riders of the Purple Sage | Jane Withersteen | 1931-10-22 |
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Quick Millions | Dorothy Stone | 1931-04-17 |
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Ambassador Bill | Queen Vanya | 1931-11-13 |
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The Big Trail | Ruth Cameron | 1930-11-01 |
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Born Reckless | Rosa Beretti | 1930-05-11 |
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Harmony at Home | Louise Haller | 1930-01-12 |
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Good Intentions | Helen Rankin | 1930-06-29 |
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Furnace Trouble | 1929-02-04 | |
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Seven Faces | Hélène Berthelot | 1929-12-01 |
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The Valiant | Mary Douglas | 1929-05-19 |
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They Had to See Paris | Opal Peters | 1929-09-18 |
