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Marjorie Weaver

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{{short description|American actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name =

| image = Marjorie Weaver (Photoplay 1938).jpg

| alt =

| caption = Weaver as she was pictured in Photoplay magazine's August 1938 issue.

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|3|2}}

| birth_place = Crossville, Tennessee, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|10|1|1913|3|2}}

| death_place = Austin, Texas, U.S.

| known_for = {{hlist|Young Mr. Lincoln|Michael Shayne, Private Detective|Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise|Second Honeymoon|Murder Over New York|The Californian}}

| nationality = American

| other_names =

| occupation = Film actress

| alma_mater = University of Kentucky
Indiana University

| years active = 1934–1952

}}

Marjorie Weaver (March 2, 1913 – October 1, 1994) was an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s.

Early life, entrance into acting

Weaver was born in Crossville, Tennessee to John Thomas Weaver and his wife, Ellen (née Martin). Her father was a general freight agent for a railroad in Louisville, Kentucky.{{cite news|last1=Neville|first1=Lucy|title=A Campus Beauty Queen Makes Good|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6446893/the_san_bernardino_county_sun/|work=The San Bernardino County Sun|date=January 23, 1938|location=California, San Bernardino|page=21|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = August 31, 2016}} {{Open access}} She attended the University of Kentucky, and later the Indiana University,Katz, Ephraim (1979). The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume. Perigee Books. {{ISBN|0-399-50601-2}}. P. 1215. with interests in music and won beauty contests at both schools.

Weaver began her acting career as a stage actress in the early 1930s, and also worked as a model during that period, as well as a singer. She received her first film role, uncredited, in 1934. From 1936 through 1945 she received steady acting roles. She began receiving credited roles in larger productions, and starred opposite Ricardo Cortez in the 1937 film The Californian, and that same year she starred opposite Tyrone Power in Second Honeymoon.

Peak years

File:Diana Gibson, Marjorie Weaver, and Harriet Hilliard, c. 1937.jpg, Weaver, and Harriet Hilliard (1937)]]

From 1938 through 1945 she had twenty seven starring roles in films, some of which were B movies. The most notable film role was playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), which also starred Henry Fonda and Alice Brady. Some of her more recognizable roles from that seven-year period included a role in the Michael Shayne mystery series opposite Lloyd Nolan, and her role in Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise. In 1945, she starred opposite Robert Lowery in Fashion Model, which was her last role of any consequence. She had four minor roles in 1952, after which she retired from acting.

Later life

On October 22, 1937, in Goshen, Indiana, she married naval officer Kenneth George Schacht.{{cite news|title=Marjorie Weaver of Films Seeks Divorce|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6447184/the_san_bernardino_county_sun/|work=The San Bernardino County Sun|agency=Associated Press|date=August 10, 1941|location=California, San Bernardino|page=1}} She divorced him in 1941, after having seen each other only 16 days over their four-year marriage.{{cite news|title=Actress Might Rewed Schacht|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19410924&id=WfhYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5842,4902086&hl=en|accessdate=August 15, 2016|work=Spokane Daily Chronicle|date=September 24, 1941|location=Spokane, Washington|page=10}} Schacht had been captured by the Japanese, and the Navy had notified her that he was dead.{{cite news|title=War Veteran, Back From Dead, Ex-Wife Wed|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6447134/belvidere_daily_republican/|work=Belvidere Daily Republican|date=October 23, 1945|location=Illinois, Belvidere|page=1}}

Partial filmography

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Category:1913 births

Category:1994 deaths

Category:American film actresses

Category:American stage actresses

Category:University of Kentucky alumni

Category:Indiana University alumni

Category:People from Crossville, Tennessee

Category:Actresses from Tennessee

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:Actresses from Kentucky