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Marguerite Clark(1883-1940)

  • Actress
  • Producer
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Marguerite Clark
In the 1910s, waifs and child-women like Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish and Mary Miles Minter were dominant forces at America's box offices. Audiences welcomed Marguerite Clark into this group, especially those who preferred her dark brown hair and large brown eyes to the blonde-haired, blue-eyed looks of Pickford, Gish and Minter. She was tiny (about 4'10", weighing about 90 pounds) with a very pretty, Kewpie-doll face that never seemed to age. Even at the end of her career, at the age of 38, make-up artists had little trouble making her look 12 years old. Marguerite began life on a farm southeast of Lima, Ohio. As a child she was sent to a convent southeast of Cincinnati for her education, remaining there until the age of 16, when she made her stage debut with a stock company in Baltimore. DeWolf Hopper Sr. saw her and brought her to New York as his co-star in the play "Happyland". For over a decade she appeared in some of the most popular plays and musicals on Broadway, including "Anatol" with John Barrymore. In 1914 she signed with Famous Players, which, along with its sister companies Paramount and Artcraft, would produce all but her last movie. Her looks and acting talent quickly made her one of the top movie stars of the time. However, she was dissatisfied with the acting life. In 1918 she married a New Orleans plantation owner and took up residence there. She split her time between New York (where she made most of her movies) and New Orleans, all the time planning to quit acting and move permanently to the plantation. Her only wish was to go out on top. In 1921 she got her wish. The annual Quigley Publications poll of motion picture exhibitors ranked her as the nation's top movie actress of 1920, and the second-place movie star overall to Wallace Reid. She had just completed Scrambled Wives (1921), produced by her own newly formed production company, for First National. After the release of the Quigley poll, she disbanded her production company and retired to her husband's plantation, where she lived until his death in 1936. She moved back to New York City shortly thereafter. She was also the model for Snow White in Walt Disney's masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). She died following a short bout with pneumonia in 1940.
BornFebruary 22, 1883
DiedSeptember 25, 1940(57)
BornFebruary 22, 1883
DiedSeptember 25, 1940(57)
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Known for

Marguerite Clark in Scrambled Wives (1921)
Scrambled Wives
  • Miss Mary Lucille Smith
  • 1921
Marguerite Clark in Molly Make-Believe (1916)
Molly Make-Believe
  • Molly
  • 1916
Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (1917)
The Valentine Girl
  • Marion Morgan
  • 1917
Bab's Diary (1917)
Bab's Diary
  • Bab Archibald
  • 1917

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  • Marguerite Clark in Scrambled Wives (1921)
    Scrambled Wives
    • Miss Mary Lucille Smith
    • 1921
  • Easy to Get (1920)
    Easy to Get
    • Molly Morehouse
    • 1920
  • Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall in All of a Sudden Peggy (1920)
    All of a Sudden Peggy
    • Peggy O'Hara
    • 1920
  • A Girl Named Mary (1919)
    A Girl Named Mary
    • Mary Healey
    • 1919
  • Marguerite Clark in Luck in Pawn (1919)
    Luck in Pawn
    • Annabel Lee
    • 1919
  • Marguerite Clark in Widow by Proxy (1919)
    Widow by Proxy
    • Gloria Grey
    • 1919
  • Girls (1919)
    Girls
    • Pamela Gordon
    • 1919
  • Come Out of the Kitchen (1919)
    Come Out of the Kitchen
    • Claudia Daingerfield
    • 1919
  • Marguerite Clark, Gaston Glass, and Frank Mills in Let's Elope (1919)
    Let's Elope
    • Eloise Farrington
    • 1919
  • Marguerite Clark in Three Men and a Girl (1919)
    Three Men and a Girl
    • Sylvia Weston
    • 1919
  • Marguerite Clark in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919)
    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
    6.3
    • Lovey Mary
    • 1919
  • Marguerite Clark in Little Miss Hoover (1918)
    Little Miss Hoover
    5.7
    • Ann Craddock
    • 1918
  • The Biggest and the Littlest Lady in the World
    Short
    • The Little Lady
    • 1918
  • Marguerite Clark in Out of a Clear Sky (1918)
    Out of a Clear Sky
    • Countess Celeste de Bersek et Krymm
    • 1918
  • Augusta Anderson, Florence Carpenter, Marguerite Clark, Sam Hardy, Ruby Hoffman, Jack W. Johnston, Walter P. Lewis, Frank Losee, and Susanne Willis in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918)
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    5.8
    • Little Eva St. Clair
    • Topsy
    • 1918

Producer



  • Marguerite Clark in Scrambled Wives (1921)
    Scrambled Wives
    • producer
    • 1921

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  • Alternative name
    • Marguerite Clarke
  • Height
    • 4′ 10″ (1.47 m)
  • Born
    • February 22, 1883
    • Avondale, Ohio, USA
  • Died
    • September 25, 1940
    • New York City, New York, USA(pneumonia)
  • Spouse
    • Harry Palmerson WilliamsAugust 15, 1918 - 1936 (his death)
  • Other works
    (1900- 1913?). Active on Broadway in the following productions:
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 23 Articles
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Before working in films, Marguerite was a big name on Broadway.

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