Acting

Marjorie Kane

Born April 28, 1909 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died January 8, 1992 · aged 82

Marjorie Kane was born on April 28, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. She was an actress, known for The Dentist (1932), The Pharmacist (1933) and Second Chorus (1940). She died on January 8, 1992 in Los Angeles, California.

Known For

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 1945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again · 1939

Destry Rides Again

MovieWesternComedy

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.

Merrily We Live

Merrily We Live · 1938

Merrily We Live

MovieComedyRomance

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.

The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon · 1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

MovieThrillerDrama

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

Second Chorus

Second Chorus · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. · 1941

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

The Secret Fury

The Secret Fury · 1950

The Secret Fury

MovieCrimeDrama

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.

Billboard Girl

Billboard Girl · 1932

MovieComedyMusic

Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 1945

MovieCrimeDrama

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Waitress (uncredited)

Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again · 1939

Destry Rides Again

MovieWesternComedy

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.

Saloon Floozie (uncredited)

Merrily We Live

Merrily We Live · 1938

Merrily We Live

MovieComedyRomance

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.

Rosa

The File on Thelma Jordon

The File on Thelma Jordon · 1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

MovieThrillerDrama

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Second Chorus

Second Chorus · 1941

MovieComedyRomance

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

Secretary

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. · 1941

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

Cigarette Girl

The Secret Fury

The Secret Fury · 1950

The Secret Fury

MovieCrimeDrama

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.

Maid (uncredited)

Billboard Girl

Billboard Girl · 1932

MovieComedyMusic

Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.

Mary Malone

Riding Shotgun

Riding Shotgun · 1954

When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.

Townswoman (uncredited)

Broadway Serenade

Broadway Serenade · 1939

Broadway Serenade

MovieRomanceDrama

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

3rd 5&10 Salesgirl (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous

Slightly Dangerous · 1943

Slightly Dangerous

MovieComedyRomance

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Customer (uncredited)

Down Memory Lane

Down Memory Lane · 1949

Down Memory Lane

MovieComedyHistory

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film.

Marian Bradley

Something to Sing About

Something to Sing About · 1937

Something to Sing About

MovieComedyRomance

James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.

Regan's Receptionist (uncredited)

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up · 1939

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

MovieComedyDrama

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.

Wedding Guest

Trade Winds

Trade Winds · 1938

MovieRomanceComedy

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.

Sam's Girl (Uncredited)

Slightly Honorable

Slightly Honorable · 1939

Slightly Honorable

MovieComedyMystery

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Telephone Operator (Uncredited)

There Goes My Heart

There Goes My Heart · 1938

There Goes My Heart

MovieComedyRomance

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

Secretary (uncredited)

The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo · 1929

The Great Gabbo

MovieMusicDrama

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Babe

Reckless Age

Reckless Age · 1944

MovieAdventureComedy

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.

Restaurant Patron

Youth Takes a Fling

Youth Takes a Fling · 1938

Youth Takes a Fling

MovieRomanceComedy

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.

Switchboard Operator

The Officer and the Lady

The Officer and the Lady · 1941

The Officer and the Lady

MovieActionCrime

A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.

Phone Operator (uncredited)

Ladies in Love

Ladies in Love · 1930

A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.

Marjorie

Counsel on De Fence

Counsel on De Fence · 1934

Counsel on De Fence

New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.

Girls of the Big House

Girls of the Big House · 1945

Girls of the Big House

MovieMysteryDrama

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.

Inmate

Bonanza

Bonanza · 1959

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Townswoman (uncredited)