Marguerite Churchill
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Wayne's first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930). She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Children's School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats. Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawk's The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Wayne's first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Dracula's Daughter (1936). She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 26, 1910
Deathday: January 09, 2000
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Dracula's Daughter
1936-05-11
Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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The Walking Dead
1936-03-01
The Walking Dead
Overview: Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Big Trail
1930-11-01
The Big Trail
Overview: Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Bunco Squad
1950-09-01
Bunco Squad
Overview: Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Born Reckless
1930-05-11
Born Reckless
Overview: In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-11
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Ambassador Bill
1931-11-13
Ambassador Bill
Overview: An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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Furnace Trouble
1929-02-04
Furnace Trouble
Overview: Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-04
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The Valiant
1929-05-19
The Valiant
Overview: A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-19
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Speed Devils
1935-07-01
Speed Devils
Overview: A race car driver, injured during an accident, opens up a repair shop only to become the target of crooked government agents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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Quick Millions
1931-04-17
Quick Millions
Overview: A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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They Had to See Paris
1929-09-18
They Had to See Paris
Overview: Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-18
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Girl Without a Room
1933-12-08
Girl Without a Room
Overview: A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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Good Intentions
1930-06-29
Good Intentions
Overview: When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the swirling eddy of his criminal past! (original ad)
Genres: Drama Crime Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-29
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Murder by an Aristocrat
1936-06-13
Murder by an Aristocrat
Overview: A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-13
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Legion of Terror
1936-11-01
Legion of Terror
Overview: Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Alibi for Murder
1936-09-23
Alibi for Murder
Overview: A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-23
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Girls Demand Excitement
1931-02-08
Girls Demand Excitement
Overview: Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled socialite coed Joan Madison.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-08
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Forgotten Commandments
1932-05-22
Forgotten Commandments
Overview: A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The Ten Commandments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-22
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1931-10-22
Riders of the Purple Sage
Overview: Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for the now grown daughter. He immediately gets caught up in the ranch's struggle against rustlers. Trailing a rustled herd of horses leads him to the rustler's hideout and the missing daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-22
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Man Hunt
1936-01-29
Man Hunt
Overview: A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-29
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Harmony at Home
1930-01-12
Harmony at Home
Overview: This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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Charlie Chan Carries On
1931-04-11
Charlie Chan Carries On
Overview: Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-11
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The Final Hour
1936-07-07
The Final Hour
Overview: A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-07
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Without Children
1935-04-15
Without Children
Overview: Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-15
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Seven Faces
1929-12-01
Seven Faces
Overview: A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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The Only Girl in the Orchestra
2023-11-09
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Overview: Trailblazing double bassist Orin O'Brien never wanted the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hired her in 1966 as the first female musician in the New York Philarmonic, it was inevitable that she would become the focus of much interest and fascination. Now 87 years old and recently retired, Orin looks back on her remarkable life and career, insisting that a fuss should not be made, much preferring to play a supporting role to the family, students, friends, and colleagues that surround her.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-09
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