Marion Burns

Marion Burns

Born: August 9, 1907
Died: December 22, 1993
in Los Angeles, California, USA
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Marion Burns (9 August 1907 – 22 December 1993) was an American film actress of the 1930s. She is best known for having starred opposite John Wayne in the 1935 film The Dawn Rider and opposite him again that same year in Paradise Canyon.

Burns was born in Los Angeles, California, making her way to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting. She received her first film role in 1931, starring opposite Bill Cody in Oklahoma Jim. That film started her on the path of starring in western films as a heroine. In 1932 she starred opposite George O'Brien in The Golden West, followed by Me and My Gal that same year. 1934 and 1935 would be her biggest years, with her appearing in six films, three each year, two of which were uncredited, and the most notable being the two John Wayne films. Her first film in 1934 was The Devil Tiger.

In The Devil Tiger, Director Clyde E. Elliott allowed his hero, Kane Richmond, to fight a 25 foot python. Richmond hated doubles and had insisted. The actor, on his feet, on the ground, on his feet again, succeeded in holding the snake's snapping mouth away from his face, while struggling to free himself from the triple coils around his body. At the height of the struggle, the heroine, Marion Burns, runs in and saves the hero from the python. Miss Burns had to fight the snake too, in order to get at Richmond's pistol, with which she was supposed to shoot the python. She played her own scene, as well.

In the 1934 film Born to Be Bad Burns starred alongside Cary Grant and Loretta Young. In her last film of 1935 she starred opposite Lloyd Hughes in the crime drama Rip Roaring Riley. It would be her last film for a span of ten years. She married twice during her career. . Her first marriage was to actor Bruce MacFarlane which ended in divorce. Her second marriage was in 1934 to actor Kane Richmond, She returned to acting three times and only briefly following 1935.The first time was in a stage appearance in "Leaning on Letty" in January of 1936 at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. The second time was in 1945 alongside her husband in Brenda Starr, Reporter, which starred Kane Richmond and Joan Woodbury. The third time wasn't until 1961 when she appeared on one episode of the television series My Three Sons. She eventually settled in Laguna Niguel, California, where she was living at the time of her death on December 22, 1993.

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Brenda Starr, Reporter
Title: Brenda Starr, Reporter
Character: Zelda (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Reporter Brenda Starr and her photographer Chuck Allen get involved in a search for the loot from a payroll robbery. Cliffhanging action and adventure and a fair amount of comic relief follow them at every turn.
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Rip Roaring Riley
Title: Rip Roaring Riley
Character: Ann Baker
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Ted Riley is ordered to investigate happenings at Diamond Island, where a bogus Major Gray is reported engaged in manufacturing a new brand of secret gas for his own purposes. Riley blows up his motor boat just off the island and is picked up by Gray's men. On the island he discovers chemist Professor Baker (John Cowell) and his daughter, Anne, are held captive by Major Gray.
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Guns Along The Trail
Title: Guns Along The Trail
Character: Linda Carter
Released: October 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A government agent goes undercover in a traveling medicine show to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters. A John Wayne classic in Vibrant Color! *Colorized and re-titled version of "Paradise Canyon" by Legend Films in 2007.
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Paradise Canyon
Title: Paradise Canyon
Character: Linda Carter alias Princess Natasha
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. Joining Doc Carter's medicine show they arrive in the town where Curly Joe, who once framed Carter, resides.
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The Dawn Rider
Title: The Dawn Rider
Character: Alice Gordon
Released: June 20, 1935
Type: Movie
When John Mason's father is killed, John is wounded. Attracted to his nurse Alice, a conflict arises between him and his friend Ben who plans to marry Alice. John later finds the killer of his father but goes to face him not knowing Ben has removed the bullets from his gun.
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Avenging Angel
Title: Avenging Angel
Character: Alice Gordon
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Dawn Rider', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'The Dawn Rider' down to a 22 minute short version.
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Flirting with Danger
Title: Flirting with Danger
Character: Marian Leslie
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
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Born to Be Bad
Title: Born to Be Bad
Character: Mrs. Trevor
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. Letty teaches her child to lie, steal, cheat and anything else he'll need to be street smart.
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Devil Tiger
Title: Devil Tiger
Character: Mary Brewster
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Africa's fiercest jungle beasts clash in mortal combat in this wild animal adventure thriller. A story of white hunters and a Chinese boy hunting the title beast, that takes a back seat to amazing documentary footage. A crocodile fights a tiger, a boa constrictor fights a buffalo, a lion fights a tiger, another lion fights a python--in fact, almost every big jungle animal is pitted against another in this film.
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Sensation Hunters
Title: Sensation Hunters
Character: Dale Jordan
Released: August 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
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Me and My Gal
Title: Me and My Gal
Character: Kate Riley
Released: December 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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The Golden West
Title: The Golden West
Character: Helen Sheppard
Released: October 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: Betty Rankin
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.