Marguerite Chapman

Marguerite Chapman

Born: March 9, 1918
Died: August 31, 1999
in Chatham, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

Marguerite Chapman (March 9, 1918 — August 31, 1999) was an American actress.

Born in Chatham, New York, she was working as a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks brought about the opportunity to pursue a career in modeling. Signed by the prestigious John Robert Powers Agency in New York City, the publicity she earned modeling brought an offer from 20th Century Fox film studios in Hollywood.

She made her film debut in 1940, working for the next two years in small roles. In 1942, her big break came with Republic Pictures when she was cast in the leading female role in the twelve-part adventure film serial Spy Smasher, a production that is considered by many as one of the best serials ever made. As a result, Chapman soon began receiving offers for more leading roles and appeared opposite important stars such as Edward G. Robinson and George Sanders. With America's entry in World War II, she entertained the troops, worked for the War bond drive and at the Hollywood Canteen.

During the 1950s Chapman continued to perform mostly in secondary film roles, notably in Marilyn Monroe's 1955 hit The Seven Year Itch. However, with the advent of television she kept busy into the early 1960s with guest appearances in a number different shows including Rawhide, Perry Mason, and Four Star Playhouse.

Chapman was reportedly initially selected to play the role of "Old Rose" Dawson-Calvert in the 1997 James Cameron epic Titanic but poor health prevented her from accepting the offer.[citation needed]

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Marguerite Chapman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6290 Hollywood Blvd.

Marguerite Chapman died in 1999, aged 81, and was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, in Culver City, California

Description above from the Wikipedia article Marguerite Chapman, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Marguerite Chapman...

Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Patron
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
bee
Spy Smasher Returns
Title: Spy Smasher Returns
Character: Eve Corby
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Edited version of the 1942 Republic serial "Spy Smasher," cut down to one hour and sold for TV release in 1966 in a syndication package with other truncated Republic serials.
bee
The Amazing Transparent Man
Title: The Amazing Transparent Man
Character: Laura Matson
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
An ex-major forces a scientist to develop a invisibility formula, with which he plans to create an invisible army and sell it to the highest bidder. However there are side effects to the formula.
bee
Title: Rawhide
Character: Madge
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
bee
Title: Perry Mason
Character: Faye Donner
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
bee
Title: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Norma Randall
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
bee
The Seven Year Itch
Title: The Seven Year Itch
Character: Miss Morris
Released: June 3, 1955
Type: Movie
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
bee
Title: The Millionaire
Character: Myra Putnam
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
bee
Title: Climax!
Character: Mrs. Carter
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
bee
Title: Climax!
Character: Myra Saunders
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
bee
Title: Climax!
Character: Wife
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
bee
Title: Climax!
Character: Kitty
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
bee
Title: Studio 57
Released: September 21, 1954
Type: TV
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
bee
Title: The Whistler
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: TV
bee
Title: The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
Released: October 2, 1953
Type: TV
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse is an American dramatic anthology series that aired on ABC from 1953 to 1955, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. The show was hosted by Arlene Dahl, Anita Colby, and, finally, Polly Bergen
bee
Title: City Detective
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: TV
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
bee
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Title: Bloodhounds of Broadway
Character: Yvonne Dugan
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
bee
Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Lisa
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
bee
Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Linda
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
bee
Sea Tiger
Title: Sea Tiger
Character: Jenine Duval
Released: July 27, 1952
Type: Movie
Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Japanese freighter left lying in anchor in a New Guinea cove at the end of WW II.
bee
The Last Page
Title: The Last Page
Character: Stella Tracy
Released: January 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
bee
Flight To Mars
Title: Flight To Mars
Character: Alita
Released: November 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
bee
Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Vicky
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
bee
Kansas Raiders
Title: Kansas Raiders
Character: Kate Clarke
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Jane Drake
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Lenore
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Linda
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
bee
Title: Your Show of Shows
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: TV
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
bee
The Green Promise
Title: The Green Promise
Character: Deborah Matthews
Released: March 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A stubborn farmer is raising his children alone. When his oldest daughter gets a suitor, the father nearly goes on the rampage, but he is forced to change his tune when he is injured, leaving her in charge of the farm.
bee
Title: Studio One
Character: Laura Adams
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
bee
The Gallant Blade
Title: The Gallant Blade
Character: Nanon de Lartigues
Released: October 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Larry Parks in a Cinecolor swashbuckler.
bee
Coroner Creek
Title: Coroner Creek
Character: Kate Hardison
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
bee
Relentless
Title: Relentless
Character: Luella Purdy
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
bee
Mr. District Attorney
Title: Mr. District Attorney
Character: Marcia Manning
Released: February 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is investigating.
bee
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Character: Patricia Foster, AKA Laura Browning
Released: June 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A PI investigates a priest's murder.
bee
One Way to Love
Title: One Way to Love
Character: Marcia Winthrop
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles.
bee
Pardon My Past
Title: Pardon My Past
Character: Joan
Released: December 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
bee
Counter-Attack
Title: Counter-Attack
Character: Lisa Elenko
Released: April 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
bee
Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Marie Dumont Baumler
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
bee
My Kingdom for a Cook
Title: My Kingdom for a Cook
Character: Pamela Morley
Released: October 27, 1943
Type: Movie
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
bee
Destroyer
Title: Destroyer
Character: Mary Boleslavski
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
bee
Appointment in Berlin
Title: Appointment in Berlin
Character: Ilse Von Preissing
Released: July 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
bee
Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Melinda Matthews
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
bee
One Dangerous Night
Title: One Dangerous Night
Character: Eve Andrews
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three socialites.
bee
The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Ann Minter
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
bee
The Spirit of Stanford
Title: The Spirit of Stanford
Character: Fay Edwards
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert.
bee
A Man's World
Title: A Man's World
Character: Mona Jackson
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
bee
Parachute Nurse
Title: Parachute Nurse
Character: Glenda White
Released: August 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Nurses parachuting.
bee
Submarine Raider
Title: Submarine Raider
Character: Sue Curry
Released: June 4, 1942
Type: Movie
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
bee
Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Ann (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
bee
Spy Smasher
Title: Spy Smasher
Character: Eve Corby
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Prior to the United States' involvement in World War II, the masked vigilante Spy Smasher fights Nazi agents operating within the US, led by the treacherous sabotage leader codenamed The Mask.
bee
You're in the Army Now
Title: You're in the Army Now
Character: Navy Blues Sextette Member
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
bee
The Body Disappears
Title: The Body Disappears
Character: Christine Lunceford
Released: November 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible by eccentric college professor Reginald Shotesbury. An unbelievable series of events is revealed by several witnesses testifying in a "mystery trial" to determine the reason for DeHaven's "disappearance".
bee
Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: Navy Blues Sextet Member
Released: September 13, 1941
Type: Movie
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
bee
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Title: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Character: Cecilia Grange
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
bee
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Title: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Character: Mary Bolton
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
bee
On Their Own
Title: On Their Own
Character: Margaret
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.