Marian Marsh

Acting

Marian Marsh

Born — Died

1913-10-17 — 2006-11-09

Place of birth

Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Marian Marsh (born Violet Ethelred Krauth; October 17, 1913 – November 9, 2006) was a Trinidad-born American film actress and later an environmentalist.

Known for

Hell's Angels poster
6.6

As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love triangle develops involving Monte, Roy, and Roy's girlfriend, Helen, the brothers' disparate personalities, and Monte's cowardice in the face of war soon threaten to compromise a top-secret bombing mission over German territory.

Hell's Angels

1930

Naughty Flirt poster
6.2

A coquettish socialite falls for a straight-laced associate in her father's law firm. But she must also fend off the advances of a greedy fortune-hunter and his sister.

Naughty Flirt

1931

The Black Room poster
6.5

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...

The Black Room

1935

Crime and Punishment poster
6.3

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1935

A Girl of the Limberlost poster
3.0

Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.

A Girl of the Limberlost

1934

The Road to Singapore poster
5.6

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

The Road to Singapore

1931

Film credits

1940s · 4 titles

Fugitive from a Prison Camp poster
9.0

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.

Fugitive from a Prison Camp

1940

House of Errors poster
10.0

Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.

House of Errors

1942

Murder by Invitation poster
6.0

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

Murder by Invitation

1941

Gentleman from Dixie poster
8.0

A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.

Gentleman from Dixie

1941

1930s · 37 titles

Hell's Angels poster
6.6

As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love triangle develops involving Monte, Roy, and Roy's girlfriend, Helen, the brothers' disparate personalities, and Monte's cowardice in the face of war soon threaten to compromise a top-secret bombing mission over German territory.

Hell's Angels

1930

Naughty Flirt poster
6.2

A coquettish socialite falls for a straight-laced associate in her father's law firm. But she must also fend off the advances of a greedy fortune-hunter and his sister.

Naughty Flirt

1931

The Black Room poster
6.5

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...

The Black Room

1935

Crime and Punishment poster
6.3

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1935

A Girl of the Limberlost poster
3.0

Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.

A Girl of the Limberlost

1934

The Road to Singapore poster
5.6

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

The Road to Singapore

1931

Five Star Final poster
6.6

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Five Star Final

1931

The Man Who Lived Twice poster
7.5

A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.

The Man Who Lived Twice

1936

I Like it That Way poster
7.0

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

I Like it That Way

1934

The Prodigal Son poster
7.0

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.

The Prodigal Son

1934

Alias the Doctor poster
6.0

Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.

Alias the Doctor

1932

Svengali poster
6.3

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

Svengali

1931

Over the Garden Wall poster
8.0

An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair.

Over the Garden Wall

1934

Beauty and the Boss poster
7.0

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Beauty and the Boss

1932

When's Your Birthday? poster
5.5

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

When's Your Birthday?

1937

Counterfeit poster
6.2

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.

Counterfeit

1936

The Sport Parade poster
5.4

Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.

The Sport Parade

1932

Prison Nurse poster
5.6

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.

Prison Nurse

1938

Whoopee! poster
6.5

Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.

Whoopee!

1930

The Mad Genius poster
6.4

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

The Mad Genius

1931

No artwork available
6.5

A young attorney, Larry Condon, is on a retainer by a nightclub-owning gangster, to carry and deliver what he thinks are legal papers but he is innocently carrying around millions of dollars in stolen bonds. He meets Helen Griffith when she is arrested in a raid on a gambling house and befriends her. She talks him into taking her to the nightclub of the man he is working for and, while there and unobserved by anyone by Larry, he sees her going through the files and desk of the owner. Who is this mystery woman he just got released from jail, and what is she up to?

Unknown Woman

1935

Saturday's Heroes poster
8.0

College football player is expelled for ticket scalping, and teams up with reporter to expose his school's hypocrisy.

Saturday's Heroes

1937

Strange Justice poster
6.3

Socialite banker Henry Judson maintains his extravagant lifestyle by embezzling from his bank, but is caught by sleazy assistant manager Waters and is blackmailed by him into continuing. Close to being found out, the two devise a scheme which sends Wally, the ex-con boyfriend of pretty hat check girl Rose Abbott, to death row.

Strange Justice

1932

A Man of Sentiment poster
7.0

A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.

A Man of Sentiment

1933

The Eleventh Commandment poster
8.0

A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.

The Eleventh Commandment

1933

The Great Gambini poster
7.5

A millionaire is found murdered in his apartment. Suspicion falls on a variety of suspects, including his fiancée and her parents, the butler, and a professional mentalist known as The Great Gambini.

The Great Gambini

1937

Lady of Secrets poster
6.7

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

Lady of Secrets

1936

Come Closer, Folks poster
9.0

A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.

Come Closer, Folks

1936

Under Eighteen poster
6.3

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.

Under Eighteen

1932

Missing Daughters poster
4.3

The Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy dance-hall operator Lucky Rogers.

Missing Daughters

1939

A Desperate Adventure poster
8.0

In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his paintings so it can be exhibited.

A Desperate Adventure

1938

In Spite of Danger poster
5.5

Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.

In Spite of Danger

1935

Notorious But Nice poster
6.7

A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!

Notorious But Nice

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his wife and brother have conspired against him for revenge.

Don't Believe It

1930

No artwork available
7.0

It is love at first sight between Juliet and Allan as they catch sight of each other on passing trains. Allan has his song-writing friend Bill to write a song of the incident and he has it broadcast. Juliet, through the hints provided in the song, responds and comes to Allan's home, where he is working on a safety-match invention.

Love at Second Sight

1934

Daring Daughters poster
7.0

A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.

Daring Daughters

1933

Youth on Parole poster
3.9

Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.

Youth on Parole

1937