Marjorie Beebe

Acting

Marjorie Beebe

Born — Died

1908-10-09 — 1983-05-09

Place of birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

City Girl poster
7.5

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

City Girl

1930

Hypnotized poster
7.0

A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.

Hypnotized

1932

Here Comes the Band poster
7.0

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."

Here Comes the Band

1935

No artwork available
7.0

Babe, a lonely servant girl in California, puts a "husband wanted" ad in the newspaper...

Homesick

1928

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife poster
NR

A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

1933

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives poster
NR

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.

The Slappiest Days of Our Lives

1951

Film credits

1930s · 44 titles

City Girl poster
7.5

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

City Girl

1930

Hypnotized poster
7.0

A Gypsy violinist searches for her missing fiance, a circus worker who recently won a sweepstakes prize and was kidnapped by a hypnotist.

Hypnotized

1932

Here Comes the Band poster
7.0

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."

Here Comes the Band

1935

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife poster
NR

A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

1933

Murder at Dawn poster
5.4

Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.

Murder at Dawn

1932

No artwork available
10.0

Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.

False Impressions

1932

Hollywood Cavalcade poster
6.2

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Hollywood Cavalcade

1939

Docks of San Francisco poster
5.0

Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by her boyfriend Vance. The professional writer John Banning understands why Belle got involved with these criminals. Banning tries to help her get out of that seedy life. However, It is not easy. A lot of action and violence ensues before Belle eventually succeeds.

Docks of San Francisco

1932

Ghost Parade poster
8.5

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.

Ghost Parade

1931

No artwork available
9.0

"Strange Birds" is a documentary short made by Mack Sennett for Educational Pictures. It's unusual in that they used an early form of color, 'Sennett Color', a two-color process typical of the era (similar to Cinecolor and Two-Color Technicolor). As far as the film goes, it consists of three folks looking at birds at the newly opened California Aviaries Bird Park on Catalina Island.

Strange Birds

1930

No artwork available
7.0

He Trumped Her Ace is a black-and-white comedy short.

He Trumped Her Ace

1930

Orphan of the Pecos poster
5.0

Shortly after Brand kills Gelbert, Tom Rayburn arrives on the scene and is accused of the murder. Escaping, he goes after Doc Mathews, the man that can prove his innocence. Brand is also after Mathews and intends to keep him from testifying. But Mathews is a ventriloquist and this will lead to Brand's downfall.

Orphan of the Pecos

1937

No artwork available
7.0

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has now means to negotiate.

The Candid Camera

1932

No artwork available
8.0

Ralph Ingram, a brain specialist whose alcoholism has ruined his career, tries to regain his reputation while working with an ambulance team. He is in love with Lil Hollins, who works as a taxi dancer, but Lil's boss, Michael Rush, is also in love with her.

First Aid

1931

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) poster
6.0

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

1931

No artwork available
4.7

Once again finding themselves out of work, Karl and George get a job assembling pre-fab houses -- with disastrous results.

A Put Up Job

1932

Uncle Jake poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Uncle Jake

1933

No artwork available
NR

Karl's so lethargic and sleepy, he dozes off at his club, and nobody notices him for days. To give him some pep, George takes him and their wives camping in the Catskills, but Karl still finds places to snooze away while all have a bad time.

Summer Daze

1932

Rackety Rax poster
6.5

Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.

Rackety Rax

1932

Flames poster
4.2

Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the apartment building next door to his new girlfriend.

Flames

1932

Hot News Margie poster
6.7

Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.

Hot News Margie

1931

A Rented Riot poster
9.0

While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.

A Rented Riot

1937

The Fighting Deputy poster
6.0

The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl Deputy Tom plans to marry, and when the Sheriff is wounded she makes Tom refuse the job of Sheriff. But when Scar kills his father, Tom puts on the badge and takes out after him.

The Fighting Deputy

1937

No artwork available
9.0

When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit.

Monkey Business in Africa

1931

Hold 'er Sheriff poster
10.0

A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he must be the bandit--right?

Hold 'er Sheriff

1931

No artwork available
7.0

Nick Stuart & Marjorie Beebe in "romantic" air-scapades that ends up in Zeppelin.

Honeymoon Zeppelin

1930

No artwork available
3.8

A Baron attempts to sell Mack Sennett and William Beaudine on the idea of casting his new prodigy in one of their films.

Movie-Town

1931

Lost Ranch poster
5.2

Cattlemen's Protective Association agent Tom Wade and his partner Happy are assigned to look into the disappearance of rancher John Carroll, who has been abducted by Carson, who wants to use his out-of-the-way ranch as a base for his smuggling operations. Complications arise as Carrol's daughter, Rita, looking for him, has an unfriendly run-in with Wade, then later is herself kidnapped by Carson.

Lost Ranch

1937

Three Who Loved poster
6.0

A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.

Three Who Loved

1931

No artwork available
3.3

The short is a domestic comedy starring Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud. It begins with the husband berating his wife for being fat. Later, you learn that the husband is actually running around with a married woman and her husband is extremely jealous...and violent. What happens next? Well, surprisingly, the 'fat' wife comes to the rescue!

Fat Wives for Thin

1930

Too Many Highballs poster
6.2

Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.

Too Many Highballs

1933

No artwork available
NR

A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations.

The Bride's Mistake

1931

No artwork available
7.0

Marge Clancy leaves her small town and boyfriend Joe behind to strike it big in Hollywood. The only work she can get is stunt doubling. Joe goes after her and causes many messes in the studio.

Doubling in the Quickies

1933

No artwork available
NR

A Mack Sennett talking comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Frank Albertson, Marjorie Beebe, Joyce Compton, Herman Bing, Gertrude Astor and Matt McHugh.

The Plumber and the Lady

1933

Dragnet Patrol poster
6.2

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

Dragnet Patrol

1931

Sugar Plum Papa poster
7.0

Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.

Sugar Plum Papa

1930

No artwork available
3.7

A society woman falls for a man she meets on the beach. The man decides to teach her a lesson by masquerading as his butler.

See You Tonight

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it.

Bulls and Bears

1930

Dance Hall Marge poster
8.0

Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.

Dance Hall Marge

1931

No artwork available
8.0

Andy Clyde and Daphne Pollard are nouveaux riches moving into a posh neighbourhood and trying to impress though their behaviour is gross and gauche.

Racket Cheers

1930

No artwork available
3.7

When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with what they THINK is a nice couple...not realizing they are card sharps. They crooks are spotted on the train and are warned NOT to take advantage of other passengers...so they invite the couple to their home in order to fleece them. Does the plan go as the crooks planned?

The Chumps

1930

No artwork available
10.0

Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.

Radio Kisses

1930

No artwork available
NR

Marjorie (Marjorie Beebe) is being wooed by the effete and broke Sir Herbert in this Mack Sennett production for Educational Pictures. Her mother wants Marjorie to marry this upper class twit, though the audience sure doesn't! Marjorie plans on pleasing her mother but soon meets a very handsome young man and is smitten...but he's just a 'lowly ice man' and mother doesn't approve. Ultimately, this all comes to a head during a college football game...and Marjorie discovers this new mystery man is actually an all-American quarterback.

One Yard to Go

1931

No artwork available
10.0

Marjorie Beebe is a saloon singer, and Frank Eastman is the piano player and her boyfriend. He's got a roving eye, and she's making a play for the boss, who is crazy about her. So they slang each other, and beat on each other, and are very happy in their abusive relationship, which saloon owner Frank Sabini tries to break up, with machine-gun fire if necessary.

Rough Idea of Love

1930

1920s · 14 titles

No artwork available
7.0

Babe, a lonely servant girl in California, puts a "husband wanted" ad in the newspaper...

Homesick

1928

The Farmer's Daughter poster
10.0

The Farmer's Daughter is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Arthur Rosson.

The Farmer's Daughter

1928

Speakeasy poster
6.0

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.

Speakeasy

1929

In Holland poster
7.0

Comedy short.

In Holland

1929

A Thief in the Dark poster
7.0

Ernest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest learns that his colleagues are burgling homes in districts they pass through. Ernest sets about to expose Xeno and his cohorts.

A Thief in the Dark

1928

What! No Spinach? poster
10.0

Horace Prune’s uncle died without any notice leaving his fortune to him, providing that he is married within forty-eight hours. Horace is a woman hater, to make matters more complicated.

What! No Spinach?

1926

Ankles Preferred poster
8.0

Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.

Ankles Preferred

1927

Very Confidential poster
7.0

A young lady impersonates a famous sportswoman while trying to win over a man.

Very Confidential

1927

Not Quite Decent poster
9.0

On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart.

Not Quite Decent

1929

No artwork available
8.0

Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues of dealing with sound equipment and the Vitaphone discs.

A Hollywood Star

1929

No artwork available
7.0

Andy's top boxer walks out on him, later claims to be champ.

Uppercut O'Brien

1929

Love Hungry poster
8.0

Discouraged chorus girl is torn between a rich man and all he can offer and a starving artist which is where her heart truly lies.

Love Hungry

1928

No artwork available
10.0

Andy, a college dean, is forced to put his old friend Harry on the football team.

The New Half Back

1929

Hills of Peril poster
10.0

Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captures the bootleggers.

Hills of Peril

1927