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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 7, 1896
Died
January 23, 1937
Place of Birth
Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
- Mary Prevost
- Marie Provost
- Mary Bickford Dunn
Marie Prevost
0.5 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marie Prevost (born Marie Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 - January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her twenty-year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures. Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the late 1910s. Prevost appeared in dozens of Sennett's short comedy films before moving on to feature length films for Universal. In 1922, she signed with Warner Bros. where her career flourished as a leading lady. She was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925). After being let go by Warner Bros in early 1926, Prevost's career began to decline and she was relegated to secondary roles. She was also beset with personal problems, including the death of her mother in 1926 and the breakdown of her marriage to actor Kenneth Harlan in 1927, which fueled her depression. She began to abuse alcohol and binge eat, resulting in a weight gain that made it difficult for her to secure acting jobs. By 1935, Prevost was only able to secure bit parts in films. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1936. After years of drinking, Prevost died of acute alcoholism at the age of 38 in January 1937. Prevost's estate was valued at $300 since she had squandered most of her earnings. Her death prompted the Hollywood community to create the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.
Known For
4.1
Self (archive footage)
Death Scenes
1989
0.0
(archive footage)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
🎬
0.0
Winifred Snood
Wedding Yells
1942
0.0
Marcelle
A Small Town Idol
1939
4.0
Elsie, Cafe Waitress
Ten Laps to Go
1936
4.6
Waitress in Omaha
13 Hours by Air
1936
🎬
5.0
Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
Tango
1936
6.9
Nona
Hands Across the Table
1935
8.0
Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
Keystone Hotel
1935
6.8
Amy (Uncredited)
Only Yesterday
1933
Credits
Death Scenes
as Self (archive footage)
1989
4.1
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
1943
0.0
🎬
Wedding Yells
as Winifred Snood
1942
0.0
A Small Town Idol
as Marcelle
1939
0.0
Ten Laps to Go
as Elsie, Cafe Waitress
1936
4.0
13 Hours by Air
as Waitress in Omaha
1936
4.6
🎬
Tango
as Betty Barlow, Treasure's Roomate
1936
5.0
Hands Across the Table
as Nona
1935
6.9
Keystone Hotel
as Mrs. Clarabelle Sterling
1935
8.0
Only Yesterday
as Amy (Uncredited)
1933
6.8
The Eleventh Commandment
as Tessie Florin
1933
0.0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-8
1933
6.5
Parole Girl
as Jeanie
1933
5.9
Slightly Married
as Nellie Gordon
1932
5.5
Carnival Boat
as Babe
1932
5.0
Three Wise Girls
as Dot
1932
5.2
Hell Divers
as Lulu
1932
6.4
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
as Rosalie
1931
5.7
🎬
Reckless Living
as Alice
1931
3.0
The Runaround
as Margy
1931
7.0
Sporting Blood
as Angela 'Angie' Ludeking
1931
5.1
The Good Bad Girl
as Trixie Barnes
1931
5.5
It's a Wise Child
as Annie Ostrom
1931
0.0
Gentleman's Fate
as Mabel
1931
6.0
Paid
as Agnes Lynch
1930
6.8
War Nurse
as Rosalie
1930
4.6
Sweethearts on Parade
as Nita
1930
1.0
Ladies of Leisure
as Dot Lamarr
1930
6.1
Party Girl
as Diana Hoster
1930
3.3
The Flying Fool
as Pat Riley
1929
5.5
Divorce Made Easy
as Mabel Deering
1929
0.0
All Faces West
as Arleta Vance
1929
0.0
The Sideshow
as Queenie Parker
1928
0.0
The Racket
as Helen Hayes
1928
6.5
The Godless Girl
as Mame
1928
7.0
A Blonde for a Night
as Marie
1928
5.1
On to Reno
as Vera
1928
6.0
🎬
The Rush Hour
as Margie Dolan
1927
0.0
The Girl in the Pullman
as Irene Burton
1927
0.0
Getting Gertie's Garter
as Gertie Darling
1927
7.3
Man Bait
as Madge Dreyer
1927
0.0
For Wives Only
as Laura Rittenhaus
1926
0.0
Almost a Lady
as Marcia Blake
1926
0.0
Up in Mabel's Room
as Mabel Ainsworth
1926
6.5
Other Women's Husbands
as Kay Lambert
1926
0.0
The Cave Man
as Myra Gaylord
1926
0.0
His Jazz Bride
as Gloria Gregory
1926
0.0
Seven Sinners
as Molly Brian
1925
6.0
Bobbed Hair
as Connemara Moore
1925
0.0
Kiss Me Again
as LouLou Fleury
1925
0.0
Recompense
as Julie Gmelyn
1925
0.0
The Dark Swan
as Eve Quinn
1924
0.0
The Lover of Camille
as Marie Duplessis
1924
0.0
Three Women
as Harriet
1924
2.7
Tarnish
as Nettie Dark
1924
0.0
Cornered
1924
0.0
Being Respectable
as Valerie Winship
1924
0.0
Daughters of Pleasure
as Marjory Hadley
1924
0.0
How to Educate a Wife
as Mabel Todd
1924
0.0
The Hollywood Kid
as Self
1924
4.3
The Marriage Circle
as Mizzi Stock
1924
6.3
The Wanters
as Myra Hastings
1923
0.0
Red Lights
as Ruth Carson
1923
0.0
Brass
as Marjorie Jones
1923
3.0
Heroes of the Street
as Betty Benton
1922
0.0
The Beautiful and Damned
1922
0.0
The Married Flapper
as Pamela Billings
1922
0.0
Her Night of Nights
as Molly May Mahone
1922
0.0
Kissed
1922
0.0
The Dangerous Little Demon
as Teddy Harmon
1922
0.0
Don't Get Personal
as Patricia Parker
1922
0.0
A Parisian Scandal
1921
0.0
Nobody's Fool
1921
0.0
Moonlight Follies
as Nan Rutledge
1921
0.0
Call a Cop
as The Banker's Daughter
1921
0.0
She Sighed by the Seaside
as The Beach Girl
1921
0.0
A Small Town Idol
as Marcelle Mansfield
1921
6.0
Love, Honor and Behave
as Newlywed Bride
1920
0.0
Down on the Farm
as The Faithful Wife
1920
5.5
Why Beaches Are Popular
as Bathing Girl
1919
0.0
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as A Daughter of Belgium
1919
5.3
🎬
Photoplay Magazine Screen Supplement #6
as Herself
1919
0.0
She Loved Him Plenty
1918
5.0
His Hidden Purpose
as The Girl in the Case
1918
0.0
🎬
Two Crooks
as The Girl
1917
0.0
🎬
Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
as Lady Platt's Niece
1917
0.0
Her Nature Dance
as The Cashier
1917
0.0
🎬
Sunshine
1916
0.0
Unto Those Who Sin
as Celeste
1916
0.0