Marjorie lord bio
Marjorie Lord
American actress (1918–2015)
Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg; July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show (Make Room for Daddy).
Early years
Lord was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Lillian Rosalie (née Edgar) and George Charles Wollenberg. During her early childhood, she was a ballet dancer. Her father was a cosmetics executive. Her paternal grandparents were German, as were two of her maternal great-grandparents. Her family moved to New York City when she was 15.
Career
Stage
In 1935, at the age of 16, Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature (1945), Little Brown Jug (1946), and The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967).
Although most of Lord's success came in television, she said in 1963: "I am primarily a stage actress. That's what I was trained to do and that's my first love."
In the 1970s, Lord was active in dinner theater productions, spending 34 weeks in such presentations in 1973 alone.
Film
One film reference book summarized Lord's movie career by saying, "For two decades, she played leading roles in mostly routine films ..."
Lord was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1935. While appearing in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton, director Henry Koster approached her and signed her to a contract with Universal Studios. She appeared in six feature films and a film serialThe Adventures of Smilin' Jack for Universal. Her film work includes a number of wartime pictures, including the 1943 mystery Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone in the title role. She also appeared in the Western films Masked Raiders, Mexican Manhunt, an This article does not have any sources. You can help Wikipedia by finding good sources, and adding them.(April 2024) Marjorie Lord (July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was an American actress. She acted mostly in television programs. She acted with Danny Thomas in Make Room for Daddy. She was the mother of actress Anne Archer. Lord was born in San Francisco, California. Lord died in San Francisco on November 28, 2015 at the age of 97. Media related to Marjorie Lord at Wikimedia Commons Poised and lovely Marjorie Lord started her long and varied career on the Broadway stage and in "B" films as a sweet-natured ingénue. Born Marjorie F. Wollenberg, of German and Czech heritage, on July 26, 1918 in San Francisco, California, her family transported themselves to New York City when she was 15. Here she enrolled in both acting and ballet at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Chaliff School of Dance, respectively.Marjorie Lord
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FILM
Side by Side (1988) with Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Danny Thomas, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Kline, Michael Lembeck, and Jennifer Bassey
The Pirate (1978) with Franco Nero, Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Ian McShane, Christopher Lee, Michael Constantine, James Franciscus, Armand Assante, Stuart Whitman, and Eli Wallach
The Missing Are Deadly (1975) with Ed Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Jose Ferrer, and Kathleen Quinlan
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) with Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, and Joyce Jameson
Special for Women: The Menace of Age (1964) with Robert Brubaker, Jeanette Nolan, and Arthur O'Connell
Port of Hell (1954) with Dane Clark, Carole Mathews, Marshall Thompson, and Wayne Morris
Mexican Manhunt (1953) with George Brent, Hillary Brooke, Morris Ankrum, and Karen Sharpe
Down Laredo Way (1953) with Rex Allen, Slim Pickens, Dona Drake, Judy Nugent, and Clayton Moore
Rebel City (1953) with Bill Elliott, Robert Kent, and Denver Pyle
Stop That Cab (1951) with Sid Melton, Tom Neal, Greg McClure, and Minerva Urecal
The Valparaiso Story (1951) with Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, and Tom Neal
The Sword of D'Artagnan (1950) with Robert Clarke
Chain Gang (1950) with Douglas Kennedy
The Lost Volcano (1950) with Johnny Sheffield, Donald Woods, and Elena Verdugo
Riding High (1950) with Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, William Demarest, Ward Bond, Percy Kilbride, and Margaret Hamilton
Masked Raiders (1949) with Tim Holt, Tom Tyler, and Clayton Moore
Air Hostess (1949) with Gloria Henry, Ross Ford, Ann Doran, Leatrice Joy, Barbara Billingsley, Grady Sutton, and Myron Healey
The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948) with Robert Shayne
The Argyle Secrets (1948) with William Gargan, Ralph Byrd, John Banner, Barbara Billingsley, and Peter Brocco
New Orleans (1947) with Arturo de Cordova, Dorothy Patrick, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and Loui
Marjorie's first job (billed as Marjorie Lord) was as a 17-year-old replacement on Broadway in "The Old Maid" starring Judith Anderson in 1935. Film parts from recently-signed RKO Studio started coming her way in 1937 with the Harry Carey western Border Cafe (1937); the murder mystery Forty Naughty Girls (1937); the Wheeler & Woolsey musical comedy High Flyers (1937); and a top role in the family drama The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939).
She met actor John Archer after they appeared together in the stage production of "The Male Animal" and married at the end of 1941, they settled in Hollywood after playing Los Angeles in a stage tour of "Springtime for Henry" with Edward Everett Horton in 1942. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1953. Son Gregg avoided show business and became an airline pilot while daughter Anne Archer followed in her parents' footsteps as an actress.
Marjorie earned a Universal contract in the process and throughout the 1940s and 1950s and would alternate between theater and film assignments. She returned to Broadway with the plays "Signature" in 1945 and "Little Brown Jug" a year later, returning a decade later as a replacement in the popular Moss Hart comedy "Anniversary Waltz" in the mid-1950s. Most of Marjorie's films were inconsequential and set her up as a pretty diversion -- Escape from Hong Kong (1942), Moonlight in Havana (1942) and The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943). S