Marjorie Kane

Marjorie Kane was born on April 28, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. She was an actress, known for The Dentist (1932), The Pharmacist (1933) and Second Chorus (1940). She died on January 8, 1992 in Los Angeles, California.

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Mildred Pierce (1945)

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Curtiz
CAST:  Joan Crawford  •  Jack Carson  •  Zachary Scott  •  Eve Arden

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Curtiz
CAST:  Joan Crawford  •  Jack Carson  •  Zachary Scott  •  Eve Arden

Merrily We Live (1938)

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Z. McLeod
CAST:  Constance Bennett  •  Brian Aherne  •  Alan Mowbray  •  Billie Burke

Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Z. McLeod
CAST:  Constance Bennett  •  Brian Aherne  •  Alan Mowbray  •  Billie Burke

The Secret Fury (1950)

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Ferrer
CAST:  Claudette Colbert  •  Robert Ryan  •  Jane Cowl  •  Paul Kelly

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mel Ferrer
CAST:  Claudette Colbert  •  Robert Ryan  •  Jane Cowl  •  Paul Kelly

Second Chorus (1941)

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  H. C. Potter
CAST:  Fred Astaire  •  Paulette Goddard  •  Artie Shaw  •  Charles Butterworth

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  H. C. Potter
CAST:  Fred Astaire  •  Paulette Goddard  •  Artie Shaw  •  Charles Butterworth

Youth Takes a Fling (1938)

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Joel McCrea  •  Andrea Leeds  •  Frank Jenks  •  Dorothea Kent

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Archie Mayo
CAST:  Joel McCrea  •  Andrea Leeds  •  Frank Jenks  •  Dorothea Kent

Take a Chance (1933)

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monte Brice  •  Laurence Schwab
CAST:  James Dunn  •  June Knight  •  Lillian Roth  •  Cliff Edwards

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monte Brice  •  Laurence Schwab
CAST:  James Dunn  •  June Knight  •  Lillian Roth  •  Cliff Edwards

Sailors on Leave (1941)

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Albert S. Rogell
CAST:  William Lundigan  •  Shirley Ross  •  Chick Chandler  •  Ruth Donnelly

If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Albert S. Rogell
CAST:  William Lundigan  •  Shirley Ross  •  Chick Chandler  •  Ruth Donnelly

The Pharmacist (1933)

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Arthur Ripley
CAST:  W.C. Fields  •  Marjorie Kane  •  Elise Cavanna  •  Grady Sutton

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Arthur Ripley
CAST:  W.C. Fields  •  Marjorie Kane  •  Elise Cavanna  •  Grady Sutton

There Goes My Heart (1938)

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Z. McLeod
CAST:  Fredric March  •  Virginia Bruce  •  Patsy Kelly  •  Alan Mowbray

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Z. McLeod
CAST:  Fredric March  •  Virginia Bruce  •  Patsy Kelly  •  Alan Mowbray

Bubbles (1930)

A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one of her earliest surviving film appearances, performs the song ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Mack
CAST:  Judy Garland  •  Mary Jane Gumm  •  Virginia Gumm  •  Marjorie Kane

A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one of her earliest surviving film appearances, performs the song ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Mack
CAST:  Judy Garland  •  Mary Jane Gumm  •  Virginia Gumm  •  Marjorie Kane

Slightly Honorable (1939)

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tay Garnett
CAST:  Pat O’Brien  •  Edward Arnold  •  Broderick Crawford  •  Ruth Terry

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tay Garnett
CAST:  Pat O’Brien  •  Edward Arnold  •  Broderick Crawford  •  Ruth Terry

Broadway Serenade (1939)

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Z. Leonard
CAST:  Jeanette MacDonald  •  Lew Ayres  •  Ian Hunter  •  Frank Morgan

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Z. Leonard
CAST:  Jeanette MacDonald  •  Lew Ayres  •  Ian Hunter  •  Frank Morgan

Be Yourself! (1930)

Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thornton Freeland
CAST:  Fanny Brice  •  Robert Armstrong  •  Harry Green  •  G. Pat Collins

Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Thornton Freeland
CAST:  Fanny Brice  •  Robert Armstrong  •  Harry Green  •  G. Pat Collins

Trade Winds (1938)

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tay Garnett
CAST:  Fredric March  •  Joan Bennett  •  Ralph Bellamy  •  Ann Sothern

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tay Garnett
CAST:  Fredric March  •  Joan Bennett  •  Ralph Bellamy  •  Ann Sothern

The Loud Mouth (1932)

Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Del Lord
CAST:  Matt McHugh  •  Marjorie Kane  •  Franklin Pangborn  •  Ray Cooke

Del Lord, famous director of the Three Stooges shorts, directed this story of one man in various comical vignettes playing the "loud mouth" - a guy who can't keep a secret and is always getting himself in trouble with everyone he comes in contact with by shouting ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Del Lord
CAST:  Matt McHugh  •  Marjorie Kane  •  Franklin Pangborn  •  Ray Cooke

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wesley Ruggles
CAST:  Lana Turner  •  Robert Young  •  Walter Brennan  •  May Whitty

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wesley Ruggles
CAST:  Lana Turner  •  Robert Young  •  Walter Brennan  •  May Whitty

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Deanna Durbin  •  Charles Winninger  •  Nan Grey  •  Helen Parrish

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Deanna Durbin  •  Charles Winninger  •  Nan Grey  •  Helen Parrish

The Great Gabbo (1929)

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.  (more)

DIRECTION:  James Cruze
CAST:  Erich von Stroheim  •  Betty Compson  •  Donald Douglas  •  Marjorie Kane

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.  (more)

DIRECTION:  James Cruze
CAST:  Erich von Stroheim  •  Betty Compson  •  Donald Douglas  •  Marjorie Kane

The Dentist (1932)

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leslie Pearce
CAST:  W.C. Fields  •  Marjorie Kane  •  Arnold Gray  •  Dorothy Granger

An unconventional dentist deals with patients in slapstick fashion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leslie Pearce
CAST:  W.C. Fields  •  Marjorie Kane  •  Arnold Gray  •  Dorothy Granger

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941)

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John English  •  William Witney
CAST:  Ralph Byrd  •  Michael Owen  •  Jan Wiley  •  John Davidson

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John English  •  William Witney
CAST:  Ralph Byrd  •  Michael Owen  •  Jan Wiley  •  John Davidson
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