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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:09/11/2023
Bunco Squad
Character:Barbara Madison
Release Date:01/09/1950
Legion of Terror
Character:Nancy Foster
Release Date:01/11/1936
Alibi for Murder
Character:Lois Allen
Release Date:23/09/1936
The Final Hour
Character:Flo Russell
Release Date:07/07/1936
Murder by an Aristocrat
Character:Sally Keating
Release Date:13/06/1936
Dracula's Daughter
Character:Janet
Release Date:11/05/1936
The Walking Dead
Character:Nancy
Release Date:29/02/1936
Man Hunt
Character:Jane Carpenter
Release Date:29/01/1936
Speed Devils
Character:Pat Corey
Release Date:01/07/1935
Without Children
Character:Sue Cole
Release Date:15/04/1935
Girl Without a Room
Character:Kay Loring
Release Date:08/12/1933
Forgotten Commandments
Character:Marya Ossipoff
Release Date:22/05/1932
Ambassador Bill
Character:Queen Vanya
Release Date:13/11/1931
Riders of the Purple Sage
Character:Jane Withersteen
Release Date:22/10/1931
Quick Millions
Character:Dorothy Stone
Release Date:17/04/1931
Charlie Chan Carries On
Character:Pamela Potter
Release Date:11/04/1931
Girls Demand Excitement
Character:Miriam
Release Date:08/02/1931
The Big Trail
Character:Ruth Cameron
Release Date:01/11/1930
Good Intentions
Character:Helen Rankin
Release Date:29/06/1930
Born Reckless
Character:Rosa Beretti
Release Date:11/05/1930
Harmony at Home
Character:Louise Haller
Release Date:12/01/1930
Seven Faces
Character:Hélène Berthelot
Release Date:01/12/1929
They Had to See Paris
Character:Opal Peters
Release Date:18/09/1929
Pleasure Crazed
Character:Nora Westby
Release Date:07/07/1929
The Valiant
Character:Mary Douglas
Release Date:19/05/1929
Furnace Trouble
Character:
Release Date:04/02/1929
Television Appearances
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