Marjorie Rambeau

Marjorie Rambeau

Born: July 15, 1889
Died: July 6, 1970
in San Francisco, California, USA
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Marjorie Burnet Rambeau (July 15, 1889 – July 6, 1970) was an American film and stage actress. She began her stage career at age 12, and appeared in several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, Her Man (1930). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Primrose Path (1940) and Torch Song (1953), and received the 1955 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in A Man Called Peter and The View from Pompey's Head.

Movies for Marjorie Rambeau...

Man of a Thousand Faces
Title: Man of a Thousand Faces
Character: Gert
Released: August 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
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Slander
Title: Slander
Character: Mrs. Manley
Released: January 18, 1957
Type: Movie
A tabloid magazine threatens to ruin a television performer's career.
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The View from Pompey's Head
Title: The View from Pompey's Head
Character: Lucy Devereaux Wales
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled : racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?
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A Man Called Peter
Title: A Man Called Peter
Character: Miss Laura Fowler
Released: March 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
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Bad for Each Other
Title: Bad for Each Other
Character: Mrs. Roger Nelson
Released: December 24, 1953
Type: Movie
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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Forever Female
Title: Forever Female
Character: Elderly Stage Actress
Released: November 28, 1953
Type: Movie
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.
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Torch Song
Title: Torch Song
Character: Mrs. Stewart
Released: October 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Aunt Sophronie
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Granny Rutledge
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Mrs. Donner
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
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Any Number Can Play
Title: Any Number Can Play
Character: Sarah Calbern
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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The Lucky Stiff
Title: The Lucky Stiff
Character: Hattie Hatfield
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
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The Walls of Jericho
Title: The Walls of Jericho
Character: Mrs. Dunham
Released: November 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
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It's Murder She Says...
Title: It's Murder She Says...
Character: Anopheles Annie (voice)
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A haggard mosquito complains how tough life is with the military taking the proper precautions against malaria infection.
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Salome, Where She Danced
Title: Salome, Where She Danced
Character: Madam Europe
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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Army Wives
Title: Army Wives
Character: Mrs. Shannahan
Released: January 12, 1945
Type: Movie
When Jerry Van Dyke, a young debutante, decides to marry Barney, an Army corporal, whom she met at a USO dance, her family objects and consequently, the couple are unable to obtain a marriage license because Jerry doesn't come of age for four days.
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Oh, What a Night!
Title: Oh, What a Night!
Character: Lil Vanderhoven
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
An international jewel thief tries to keep his secret from his neice.
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In Old Oklahoma
Title: In Old Oklahoma
Character: Bessie Baxter
Released: December 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
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Broadway
Title: Broadway
Character: Lillian Rice
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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Three Sons o' Guns
Title: Three Sons o' Guns
Character: Aunt Lottie
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Sister Bessie Rice
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Mama Teresa Lorenzo
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Annie
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Josie Johnson
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Primrose Path
Title: Primrose Path
Character: Mamie Adams
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
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Santa Fe Marshal
Title: Santa Fe Marshal
Character: Ma Burton
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
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Laugh It Off
Title: Laugh It Off
Character: Sylvia Swan
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Four former actresses decide to restart their careers by opening up a nightclub.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Mamie
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Mrs. Simon
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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Sudden Money
Title: Sudden Money
Character: Elsie Patterson
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Marjorie (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Mrs. Kingsley
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Merrily We Live
Title: Merrily We Live
Character: Mrs. Harlan
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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First Lady
Title: First Lady
Character: Belle Hardwick
Released: December 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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Dizzy Dames
Title: Dizzy Dames
Character: Lillian Bennett / Lillian Marlowe
Released: May 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house.
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Under Pressure
Title: Under Pressure
Character: Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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Ready for Love
Title: Ready for Love
Character: Goldie Tate
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her boarding school to stay with her retired aunt, a former actress, who try as she might, has never been welcomed into the snobbish community in which she resides. The young woman too, is shunned and ends up being victimized in witchcraft trial and ducked into a pool of water.
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Grand Canary
Title: Grand Canary
Character: Daisy Hemingway
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Based on an AJ Cronin novel, a disgraced doctor exiled to the Canary Islands, meets and falls in love with a married woman.
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A Modern Hero
Title: A Modern Hero
Character: Mme. Azais
Released: April 21, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
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Palooka
Title: Palooka
Character: Mayme Palooka
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.
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Man's Castle
Title: Man's Castle
Character: Flossie
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.
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The Warrior's Husband
Title: The Warrior's Husband
Character: Hippolyta
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
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Strictly Personal
Title: Strictly Personal
Character: Annie Gibson
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Mame Kelsey
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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Left Over Ladies
Title: Left Over Ladies
Character: The Duchess
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship with "Duchess," a tragic, aging lady well versed in making mistakes, leads her and Ronny to the avoidance of a mistake.
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Son of India
Title: Son of India
Character: Mrs. Darsay
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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Laughing Sinners
Title: Laughing Sinners
Character: Ruby
Released: May 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
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The Secret Six
Title: The Secret Six
Character: Peaches
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
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Strangers May Kiss
Title: Strangers May Kiss
Character: Geneva
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt Celia -- who encourages her to demand a serious commitment -- Lisbeth continues to see Alan, even after she hears he may have a wife in France. When Alan's work sends him abroad, a lovesick Lisbeth struggles to understand her feelings.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Kitty DuPuy
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
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The Easiest Way
Title: The Easiest Way
Character: Elfie St. Clair
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
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Inspiration
Title: Inspiration
Character: Lulu
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
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Min and Bill
Title: Min and Bill
Character: Bella Pringle
Released: November 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
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Her Man
Title: Her Man
Character: Annie
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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Syncopating Sue
Title: Syncopating Sue
Character: Marjorie Rambeau
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.
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National Red Cross Pageant
Title: National Red Cross Pageant
Character: America - Final episode
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
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Motherhood
Title: Motherhood
Released: March 26, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Greater Woman
Title: The Greater Woman
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie