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Marjorie Reynolds
12 August 1917
Marjorie Reynolds played in 12 movies in the Adventure, Music, Mystery, Crime, Drama, Comedy, Horror, Action, Romance, Musical, Film-Noir, Thriller, Fantasy genres.
Marjorie Reynolds got succeed with average imdb rating 6.1.
Bright, vivacious Marjorie Reynolds (n?e Marjorie Goodspeed) was born in Idaho on August 12, 1917 to a doctor and homemaker, and raised in Los Angeles. Making her film enter at age 6, she "retired" after solely a few years in favor of a normal education. She returned in the mid-30s, as a young lady this early, and began the standard assembly-formulate route of excess and fraction roles after diversified mega studios, this period billed as Marjorie Moore. Her first speaking responsibility was in ... Columbia Studio's programmer _Eradicate in Greenwich Village (1937)_ (qv), this in good time billed as Marjorie Reynolds (her first husband's model name), a moniker she kept for the duration of her pursuit. The blonde (to begin with brunette) actress then went fully a pretty unchallenging prairie open appearance opposite Hollywood's top western stars such as 'Tex Ritter' (qv), 'Buck Jones' (qv), 'Roy Rogers (I)' (qv) and 'Tim Holt (I)' (qv). It all paid off, howsoever, when she won the top female r“le opposite 'Bing Crosby' (qv) and 'Fred Astaire' (qv) in the seasonal videotape classic _Holiday Inn (1942)_ (qv), a role initially designed recompense 'Mary Martin (I)' (qv). It remains Marjorie's most common and cherished role on film, but it did not help her make a durable alteration into 'A' quality fare. She continued as a dependable "B" co-lead in such films as _Up in Mabel's Elbow-room (1944)_ (qv), _Meet Me on Broadway (1946)_ (qv), and _Utopia Not Knows (1947)_ (qv), with an exciting big offer such as 'Fritz Lang (I)' (qv)'s _Ministry of Fear (1944)_ (qv) coming her headway on a rare occasion. Along with adulthood and a immature entertainment intermediation (television) in the 50s came a return to her See native hair color. As 'William Bendix' (qv)'s unyielding, resourceful brunette wife on the comedy TV series _"The Life of Riley" (1953)_ (qv), Marjorie became a semi-household appellation. Her career took a steep decline following its demise five years later and she was just sporadically seen in films, commercials and TV guest spots after that. Married twice, her word go partner was 'Jack Reynolds (I)' (qv), who was an Aid Casting Director for 'Samuel Goldwyn' (qv). They had complete daughter, Linda, before divorcing in 1952 after 16 years. Imperfect allay, film redactor 'John Whitney (II)' (qv), worked for a time in the 40s as an actor. They were married on 32 years until his end in 1985. Extended retired, Marjorie died in 1997 of congestive callousness deterioration after collapsing while walking her dog. For all that she didn't fully spirited up to her capability as a unsmiling, challenging actress, her gentle charm and obvious attraction certainly spruced up the 60+ films she appeared in.Read more Less
