Marie Prevost
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1896-11-07
Day of Death
1937-01-23 (40 years old)
Place of Birth
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Marie Prevost
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.
Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925).
After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936.
After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
Known For
Acting
(1989)
(1943)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
(1942)
Wedding Yells
as Winifred Snood
(1939)
A Small Town Idol
as Marcelle
(1936)
Ten Laps to Go
as Elsie, Cafe Waitress
(1936)
13 Hours by Air
as Waitress in Omaha
(1936)
Tango
as Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
(1935)
Hands Across the Table
as Nona
(1935)
Keystone Hotel
as Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
(1933)
Only Yesterday
as Amy (Uncredited)
(1933)
Parole Girl
as Jeanie
(1933)
The Eleventh Commandment
as Tessie Florin
(1933)
(1932)
Hell Divers
as Lulu
(1932)
Carnival Boat
as Babe
(1932)
Three Wise Girls
as Dot
(1932)
Slightly Married
as Nellie Gordon
(1931)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Rosalie
(1931)
Sporting Blood
as Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
(1931)
The Good Bad Girl
as Trixie Barnes
(1931)
Gentleman's Fate
as Mabel
(1931)
The Runaround
as Margy
(1931)
Reckless Living
as Alice
(1931)
It's a Wise Child
as Annie Ostrom
(1930)
Ladies of Leisure
as Dot Lamarr
(1930)
Paid
as Agnes Lynch
(1930)
Party Girl
as Diana Hoster
(1930)
War Nurse
as Rosalie
(1930)
Sweethearts on Parade
as Nita
(1929)
Divorce Made Easy
as Mabel Deering
(1929)
All Faces West
as Arleta Vance
(1929)
The Flying Fool
as Pat Riley
(1928)
The Godless Girl
as Mame
(1928)
The Sideshow
as Queenie Parker
(1928)
The Racket
as Helen Hayes
(1928)
A Blonde for a Night
as Marie
(1928)
On to Reno
as Vera
(1927)
The Girl in the Pullman
as Irene Burton
(1927)
Getting Gertie's Garter
as Gertie Darling
(1927)
Man Bait
as Madge Dreyer
(1927)
The Rush Hour
as Margie Dolan
(1926)
The Cave Man
as Myra Gaylord
(1926)
Other Women's Husbands
as Kay Lambert
(1926)
Up in Mabel's Room
as Mabel Ainsworth
(1926)
Almost a Lady
as Marcia Blake
(1926)
His Jazz Bride
as Gloria Gregory
(1925)
Bobbed Hair
as Connemara Moore
(1925)
Recompense
as Julie Gmelyn
(1925)
Kiss Me Again
as LouLou Fleury
(1925)
Seven Sinners
as Molly Brian
(1924)
The Marriage Circle
as Mizzi Stock
(1924)
Being Respectable
as Valerie Winship
(1924)
(1924)
The Dark Swan
as Eve Quinn
(1924)
Daughters of Pleasure
as Marjory Hadley
(1924)
Tarnish
as Nettie Dark
(1924)
Three Women
as Harriet
(1924)
The Lover of Camille
as Marie Duplessis
(1924)
How to Educate a Wife
as Mabel Todd
(1924)
The Hollywood Kid
as Self
(1923)
The Wanters
as Myra Hastings
(1923)
Brass
as Marjorie Jones
(1923)
Red Lights
as Ruth Carson
(1922)
Heroes of the Street
as Betty Benton
(1922)
(1922)
(1922)
Her Night of Nights
as Molly May Mahone
(1922)
The Married Flapper
as Pamela Billings
(1921)
A Small Town Idol
as Marcelle Mansfield
(1921)
Moonlight Follies
as Nan Rutledge
(1921)
She Sighed by the Seaside
as The Beach Girl
(1921)
(1921)
(1921)
Call a Cop
as The Banker's Daughter
(1920)
Down on the Farm
as The Faithful Wife
(1919)
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
as Herself
(1919)
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as A Daughter of Belgium
(1919)
Why Beaches Are Popular
as Bathing Girl
(1918)
(1918)
His Hidden Purpose
as The Girl in the Case
(1917)
Her Nature Dance
as The Cashier
(1917)
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
as Lady Platt's Niece
(1917)
Two Crooks
as The Girl
(1916)
Unto Those Who Sin
as Celeste
(1916)