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Marguerite Churchill
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His marriage to Marguerite Churchill was a casualty of his military duty, and they divorced in 1948. Churchill and O'Brien appeared together in one film, RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE (Fox, 1931). They had married in 1933 and had two children. Daughter Orin is a world-renowned bassist with the New York Philharmonic and you can find more information on her in the links section. Son Darcy was a professor of English at the University of Tulsa from 1978-1996. He ... was a best-selling author and his books include Murder in Little Egypt and Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers. Darcy passed away in March, 1998, and a link with further info is below.
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Actress Marguerite Churchill journeyed from her native Kansas City to New York as a child. She was trained for a theatrical career at Professional Children's School and Theatre Guild Drama School, and was on Broadway before reaching the age of 14. In 1929, she was signed to a Fox Studios contract; her first film was The Valiant (1929), in which she co-starred with Paul Muni. Dissatisfied with the sort of roles assigned her at Fox, Marguerite returned to Broadway, where she appeared in Kaufman and Ferber's Dinner at Eight (1933). She gave Hollywood a second chance in 1935, but except for her intriguing damsel-in-distress portrayal in Dracula's Daughter (1936), most of her film roles were eminently forgettable. She left films again in 1936 to spend more time with her husband, cowboy star George O'Brien; after the breakup of their marriage in 1948, Ms. Churchill made one final screen appearance in the RKO "B" Bunco Squad (1950).
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Actress Marguerite Churchill journeyed from her native Kansas City to New York as a child. She was trained for a theatrical career at Professional Children's School and Theatre Guild Drama School, and was on Broadway before reaching the age of 14. In 1929, she was signed to a Fox Studios contract; her first film was "The Valiant" (1929), in which she co-starred with Paul Muni. Dissatisfied with the sort of roles assigned her at Fox, Marguerite returned to Broadway, where she appeared in Kaufman and Ferber's "Dinner at Eight" (1933). She gave Hollywood a second chance in 1935, but except for her intriguing damsel-in-distress portrayal in "Dracula's Daughter" (1936), most of her film roles were eminently forgettable.
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In late 1930, The Big Trail, starring Marguerite Churchill, Tyron Power Snr, and John Wayne, was released. It had been shot in both 35mm and 70mm (known as Grandeur). It was epic in its size. It was a mammoth failure. Because of the depression, Fox had only been able to install the 70mm screens, and not the 70mm projectors. On the small screen it was little more than another movie.
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Leading lady Marguerite Churchill made a number of films for Fox in the late 1920s and early 1930s. She met actor George O'Brien when they starred in the 1931 film Riders of the Purple Sage, and the couple married in 1933. Churchill continued acting after the marriage, appearing in such films as Speed Devils (1935) and Dracula's Daughter (1936; with Gloria Holden). In 1936, Churchill retired from the screen to raise her children. She and O'Brien divorced in 1948, and Churchill briefly returned to acting in the early 1950s. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 90.
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Ian Keith, Marguerite Churchill, and John Wayne in Raoul Walsh's epic Western The Big Trail (1930). Wayne received his first shot at stardom in this film, but The Big Trail failed at the box-office and Wayne was relegated to B Westerns for the remainder of the decade--until Stagecoach in 1939.
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