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Marie Prevost
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From All Movie Guide: American actress Marie Prevost was convent-educated in Montreal before heading to Los Angeles as a high schooler. Prevost gave up a stenographer's job in 1917 to become one of the bathing beauties at Mack Sennett studios. Several years of playing ingenues for Sennett came to an end when she signed at Universal Studios in 1921; her career really got started... during her stay at Warner Bros., where she was fortunate enough to be cast in a series of such popular sophisticated comedies as director Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). Talking pictures forced Prevost to alter her image; her nasal, high-pitched voice was more suited to wisecracking chorus girls or gum-chewing receptionists than pampered society wives. Prevost was cast in a few good supporting parts throughout the '30s, notably as Carole Lombard's manicurist chum in Hands Across the Table (1936). Marie Prevost died in 1937 at the age of 38.
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Marie Prevost (November 8, 1898 - January 23, 1937) was a Canadian actress. Born Mary Bickford Dunn in Sarnia, Ontario, she was educated in a Catholic convent school in Montreal, Quebec. Following the early death of her beloved father, she moved with her mother and sister to Los Angeles, California. While working as a secretary, the girl applied and obtained an acting job at the Hollywood studio owned by fellow Canadian Mack Sennett. Himself from a small town outside Montreal, Mack Sennett dubbed her as the exotic French girl, adding Mary Dunn to his collection of bathing beauties under the stage name of Marie Prevost.
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Marie Prevost began her acting career as a bathing beauty in Mack Sennett comedies, but after starring in a string of forgettable films her career began to slide. She started to gain weight and hit the bottle. A worker at her apartment building gained entry to her residence after hearing her dachshund barking incessantly for two days, and found her lifeless body, which had been partially chewed by her dog. The cause of death was alcoholism.
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On the eve of her apparent salvation, as Boretti agrees to both marry Madelon and take in her illegitimate child, who has been living with friends Rosalie (Marie Prevost) and Victor (Cliff Edwards), disaster strikes yet again. Boretti is arrested, Madelon is sent to prison and upon her release many years later is faced with a terrible choice. Will she reenter her son's life and mar his future with her shame? Or will she stay away and allow her son to become a doctor? Madelon chooses the latter, and pays for Jacques's (Robert Young) medical training by becoming a prostitute, a further fall from grace marked in The Sin of Madelon Claudet with a shocking authenticity.
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Darius Carpenter (Frank Currier) prides respectability above all else, and he's not thrilled when his son, Charles (Monte Blue), falls for flapper Valerie Winship (Marie Prevost). When he finds an opportunity to trick Charles into becoming engaged to Suzanne Schuyler (Irene Rich), the two have no choice but to carry it through and marry. The despondent Valerie goes away to forget, and the newlyweds soon have a child. When Valerie returns, Charles realizes he still loves her and they make plans to run away together. It's not Suzanne who inspires him to stay, but his infant son, and his desire to fulfill his duty. Comedienne Louise Fazenda makes an improbable appearance as Charles' sister, Deborah.
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Prevost's star was rising fast. She was showing the studio heads that she was more than just a pretty face and was given roles that allowed her to display her smart, comic timing. Often playing roles just short of risqué, her characters always turned out to be good girls by the end of the pictures. One of the best of these was Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924). In it, Prevost plays Mizzi, a bored Austrian housewife married to a professor played by Adolph Menjou. The film opens with Menjou's morning routine being delayed by an obviously piqued wife.
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