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Marjorie Burnet Rambeau was an American film and stage actress. She began her stage career at age 12, and appeared in several silent films before debuting in her first sound film, Her Man (1930). She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Primrose Path (1940) and Torch Song (1953), and received the 1955 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in A Man Called Peter and The View from Pompey's Head.
Born
Monday, 15 July 1889
Died
Monday, 06 July 1970
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Man of a Thousand Faces | Gert | 1957 |
The O. Henry Playhouse | Mary | 1957 |
Slander | Mrs. Manley | 1957 |
The View from Pompey's Head | Lucy Devereaux Wales | 1955 |
A Man Called Peter | Miss Laura Fowler | 1955 |
Forever Female | Older Actress at Bar / Elderly Stage Actress | 1954 |
Bad for Each Other | Mrs. Roger Nelson | 1953 |
Torch Song | Mrs. Stewart | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | Aunt Sophronie / Granny Rutledge | 1953 |
The Ford Television Theatre | Mrs. Forsythe / Mrs. O'Reilly | 1952 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Man of a Thousand Faces | Gert | 1957 |
The O. Henry Playhouse | Mary | 1957 |
Slander | Mrs. Manley | 1957 |
The View from Pompey's Head | Lucy Devereaux Wales | 1955 |
A Man Called Peter | Miss Laura Fowler | 1955 |
Forever Female | Older Actress at Bar / Elderly Stage Actress | 1954 |
Bad for Each Other | Mrs. Roger Nelson | 1953 |
Torch Song | Mrs. Stewart | 1953 |
General Electric Theater | Aunt Sophronie / Granny Rutledge | 1953 |
The Ford Television Theatre | Mrs. Forsythe / Mrs. O'Reilly | 1952 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
Lux Video Theatre | Clarissa | 1950 |
Abandoned | Mrs. Donner / Mrs. Leona Donner | 1949 |
Any Number Can Play | Sarah Calbern | 1949 |
The Lucky Stiff | Hattie Hatfield | 1949 |
The Walls of Jericho | Mrs. Dunham | 1948 |
It's Murder She Says... | Anopheles Annie (voice) / Anopheles Annie | 1945 |
Salome, Where She Danced | Madam Europe | 1945 |
Army Wives | Mrs. Shannahan | 1944 |
Oh, What a Night! | Lil Vanderhoven | 1944 |
In Old Oklahoma | Bessie Baxter / Bessie Baxter (hotel proprietor) | 1943 |
Broadway | Lillian (Lil) Rice / Lillian Rice | 1942 |
Three Sons o' Guns | Aunt Lottie | 1941 |
Tobacco Road | Sister Bessie / Sister Bessie Rice | 1941 |
East of the River | Mama Teresa Lorenzo | 1940 |
Tugboat Annie Sails Again | Tugboat Annie / Annie | 1940 |
20 Mule Team | Josie Johnson | 1940 |
Primrose Path | Mamie Adams | 1940 |
Santa Fe Marshal | Ma Burton | 1940 |
Laugh It Off | Sylvia Swan | 1939 |
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence | Mamie | 1939 |
The Rains Came | Mrs. Simon | 1939 |
Sudden Money | Elsie Patterson | 1939 |
Breakdowns of 1938 | Marjorie (First Lady outtakes) | 1938 |
Woman Against Woman | Mrs. Kingsley | 1938 |
Merrily We Live | Mrs. Harlan | 1938 |
First Lady | Belle Hardwick | 1937 |
Dizzy Dames | Lillian Bennett / Lillian Marlowe | 1935 |
Under Pressure | Amelia 'Amy' Hardcastle | 1935 |
Ready for Love | Goldie Tate | 1934 |
Grand Canary | Daisy Hemingway | 1934 |
A Modern Hero | Mme. Azais | 1934 |
Palooka | Mayme Palooka | 1934 |
Man's Castle | Flossie | 1933 |
The Warrior's Husband | Hippolyta | 1933 |
Strictly Personal | Annie Gibson | 1933 |
Hell Divers | Mame Kelsey | 1932 |
Left Over Ladies | The Duchess | 1931 |
Silence | Mollie Burke | 1931 |
This Modern Age | Diane Winters (replaced by Pauline Frederick) | 1931 |
Son of India | Mrs. Darsay | 1931 |
Laughing Sinners | Ruby | 1931 |
The Secret 6 | Peaches | 1931 |
Strangers May Kiss | Geneva | 1931 |
A Tailor Made Man | Kitty DuPuy | 1931 |
Trader Horn | Edith Trent | 1931 |
The Easiest Way | Elfie St. Clair | 1931 |
Inspiration | Lulu | 1931 |
Min and Bill | Bella / Bella Pringle | 1930 |
Her Man | Annie | 1930 |
Syncopating Sue | Marjorie Rambeau | 1926 |
National Red Cross Pageant | America - Final episode | 1917 |
Mary Moreland | Mary Moreland | 1917 |
The Dazzling Miss Davison | Rachel - The Dazzling Miss Davison | 1917 |
The Mirror | Blanche | 1917 |
The Debt | Countess Ann | 1917 |
The Greater Woman | Auriole Praed | 1917 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1954 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
1941 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |