Marjorie Kane

Marjorie Kane

Born: April 28, 1909
Died: January 8, 1992
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Marjorie Kane was born on April 28, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. She was an actress, known for The Dentist (1932), The Pharmacist (1933) and Second Chorus (1940). She died on January 8, 1992 in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Marjorie Kane...

Title: Bonanza
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1959
Type: TV
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.
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The Secret Fury
Title: The Secret Fury
Character: Maid (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
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Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Inmate
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Restaurant Patron
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Cigarette Girl
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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The Officer and the Lady
Title: The Officer and the Lady
Character: Phone Operator (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
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Sailors on Leave
Title: Sailors on Leave
Character: Perky Cutie (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1941
Type: Movie
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Second Chorus
Title: Second Chorus
Character: Secretary
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
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How High Is Up?
Title: How High Is Up?
Character: Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
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Slightly Honorable
Title: Slightly Honorable
Character: Telephone Operator (Uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Saloon Floozie (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Unseen Guardians
Title: Unseen Guardians
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The "unseen guardians" of the title are the Postal Inspection Service, which investigates mail order racketeering; the Underwriters' Laboratories, which are shown testing electrical equipment, fire extinguishers, and large floor safes; and those who run orphanages, who assure that the children in their care are placed in proper adoptive homes.
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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: 3rd 5&10 Salesgirl (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Title: Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Sam's Girl (Uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Youth Takes a Fling
Title: Youth Takes a Fling
Character: Switchboard Operator
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
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Merrily We Live
Title: Merrily We Live
Character: Rosa
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
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Something to Sing About
Title: Something to Sing About
Character: Regan's Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
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Counsel on De Fence
Title: Counsel on De Fence
Released: October 24, 1934
Type: Movie
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
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Take a Chance
Title: Take a Chance
Character: Dancehall Girl
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
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The Pharmacist
Title: The Pharmacist
Character: Priscilla Dilweg
Released: April 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.
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The Dentist
Title: The Dentist
Character: Mary - Dentist's Daughter
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.
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Hatta Marri
Title: Hatta Marri
Character: Ophelia
Released: July 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Arabian princess Dorothy Granger has all the sheiks pining for her, but she loves Hollywood singing cowboy Harry Gribbon. When she discovers Gribbon is to wed Babe Kane, Miss Granger has one of her devotees steal Gribbon's trusty steed, Trixie. Gribbon cannot wed until he recovers Trixie, so he goes in search of her. Five years later, he is in the Foreign Legion.
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The Loud Mouth
Title: The Loud Mouth
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting out his opinions and criticizing strangers to their face.
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Jimmy's New Yacht
Title: Jimmy's New Yacht
Character: Mary
Released: June 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A young lady is wooed by two men
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Billboard Girl
Title: Billboard Girl
Character: Mary Malone
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.
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Blue of the Night
Title: Blue of the Night
Character: Marian Bradley
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Starring Bing Crosby as himself in a short comedy/romance telling a tale of mistaken identity. Two-reeler; directed by Mack Sennett
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Sunny Skies
Title: Sunny Skies
Character: Doris
Released: May 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his steadfast supporter.
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Ladies in Love
Title: Ladies in Love
Character: Marjorie
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.
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Be Yourself!
Title: Be Yourself!
Character: Lola (as Marjorie 'Babe' Kane)
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
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Bubbles
Title: Bubbles
Character: Mother in Checkered Dress (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one of her earliest surviving film appearances, performs the song "The Land of Let's Pretend" as part of the vaudeville act "The Gumm Sisters".
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The Great Gabbo
Title: The Great Gabbo
Character: Babe
Released: September 12, 1929
Type: Movie
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
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Border Romance
Title: Border Romance
Character: Nina
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.