Majel Coleman

Majel Coleman

Born: February 22, 1903
Died: July 27, 1980
in Ohio, USA
From Wikipedia

Majel Coleman (February 22, 1903 - July 27, 1980) was a

movie actress and model from Mason, Ohio. Most of her 11 film credits are

silent movie features.

Majel, who was a beauty contest winner in her hometown, went

to Hollywood in 1921 after high school. Coleman wanted to work for Cecil B.

Demille in particular. When she could not find a way to get his attention, she

lost interest in working for other movie studios. Then a chance happening

changed Coleman's future.

Demille noticed Coleman when a small stray dog followed her

home and became intimidated by her police dog. The little dog jumped off her

porch and broke its leg on the cement below. It continued on across the street

with Coleman pursuing. A car driven by the film producer almost ran over the

red haired beauty. Together Demille and Coleman took the puppy to the hospital.

Demille then signed Coleman to a movie contract in March

1925. He made tests and arranged for her to act in small parts in his next

films.

Coleman's hands became an ideal of perfection, beginning

with film screen tests which revealed their beauty, and she was often a hand

double in movies. She was listed among the 14 most beautiful women in the world

in 1926 along with Sally Rand, Etta Lee, Eugenia Gilbert, Jocelyn Lee, Sally

Long, Clara Morris, Olive Borden, Christina Montt, Adalyn Mayer, Thais

Valdemar, Yola D'Avril, and Dorothy Seastrom.

Her early motion picture efforts include roles in

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1923) and several Harry Carey westerns, Soft Shoes (1925)

and West of Broadway (1926). In Corporal Kate (1926) Coleman stars with Vera

Reynolds and Julia Faye. In 1927, Coleman played Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate,

in Demille's production of King of Kings. Her last films include roles in The

Girl In The Glass Cage (1929) and Romance of the Rio Grande (1929).

Majel Coleman was married to Academy Award-winning feature

film and television set decorator Victor Gangelin (1899-1967) and they lived in

Los Angeles.

Majel Coleman died at age 77 in 1980 in Paramount,

California.

Movies for Majel Coleman...

Romance of the Rio Grande
Title: Romance of the Rio Grande
Character: Dorry Wayne
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
Title: The Girl in the Glass Cage
Character: Isabelle Van Court
Released: June 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
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Almost Human
Title: Almost Human
Character: Cecile Adams
Released: December 26, 1927
Type: Movie
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn to have his way. He then departs for his palatial doghouse at the Livingston estate. Meanwhile Maggie is broken-hearted and also finds that she is in a "family way", and gives birth to a pup she names Hank. Maggie tells Hank to find his "human ", and departs the scene. Hank goes to the park, meets a "human" named Mary Kelly, who is a homeless waif and sweetheart of poverty, and the two adopt each other. Later on in the park Paul comes strolling along with his 'human', John. A child falls into the lake and Paul and Hank team up to save her.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Proculla - Wife of Pilate
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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Corporal Kate
Title: Corporal Kate
Character: Evelyn
Released: December 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is the story of a pair of Brooklyn manicurists who go to France during WWI to entertain the troops with a song-and-dance act. Both girls struggle not only with the brutalities of war but also with their love for the same man.
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West of Broadway
Title: West of Broadway
Character: Muriel Styles
Released: October 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Priscilla Dean starred in this comedy-Western as Eastern golf pro Freddy Hayden who is hired by a Western dude ranch. Assumed to be a man because of the name, Freddy creates a sensation appearing at a dance in the newest creation from Paris, and later incurs the ire of all when she accidentally causes a stampede. Ranch foreman Bruce Elwood (Arnold Gray) eventually wins the heart of the leading lady when he rescues Freddy from a villainous cattle rustler. A year after this light comedy, Dean began to wind down her career, and played a foil to Laurel and Hardy in Slipping Wives.
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Sunny Side Up
Title: Sunny Side Up
Character: Showgirl
Released: August 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
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Soft Shoes
Title: Soft Shoes
Character: Mabel Packer
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a little second-story work, not realizing the trouble he’s in for.
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Title: Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Released: August 5, 1923
Type: Movie
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life. Mona comes from an noble family who is facing ruin.