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Kane Richmond, Marjorie Weaver, and Jane Withers in Chicken Wagon Family (1939)

Marjorie Weaver in Three Blind Mice (1938)

Joan Davis, Alice Faye, and Marjorie Weaver in Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

George Reeves and Marjorie Weaver in Man at Large (1941)

Douglass Dumbrille and Marjorie Weaver in Murder Among Friends (1941)

Joseph Crehan, Milburn Stone, and Marjorie Weaver in The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)

Ralph Morgan, Milburn Stone, and Marjorie Weaver in The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)

Betty Hutton, Abigail Adams, Ann Adams, Lena Belle, Helena Brinton, Barbara Brooks, Marjorie Deanne, Dona Drake, Phyllis Povah, and Marjorie Weaver in Let's Face It (1943)

Ted North and Marjorie Weaver in For Beauty's Sake (1940)

Pierre Watkin and Marjorie Weaver in Shadow of Suspicion (1944)

George Reeves, Richard Derr, and Marjorie Weaver in Man at Large (1941)

Warner Baxter and Marjorie Weaver in I'll Give a Million (1938)

Tyrone Power, Marjorie Weaver, and Loretta Young in Second Honeymoon (1937)

Fred Allen, Joan Davis, Alice Faye, and Marjorie Weaver in Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Marjorie Weaver and Loretta Young in Three Blind Mice (1938)

Evelyn Ankers, Gloria Jean, Patric Knowles, Mel Tormé, and Marjorie Weaver in Pardon My Rhythm (1944)

Busby Berkeley, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937, Waarner Bros., 1937, **I.V.

Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, and Marjorie Weaver in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Richard Cromwell, Pauline Moore, Marjorie Weaver, and Arleen Whelan in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

David Niven, Stuart Erwin, Joel McCrea, Pauline Moore, Marjorie Weaver, and Loretta Young in Three Blind Mice (1938)

Joan Davis, Ted North, Ned Sparks, and Marjorie Weaver in For Beauty's Sake (1940)

John Barrymore, Joan Davis, Jack Haley, George Murphy, and Marjorie Weaver in Hold That Co-ed (1938)

Eve Arden, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Dona Drake, Zasu Pitts, and Marjorie Weaver in Let's Face It (1943)

Walter Brennan, Brenda Joyce, John Payne, and Marjorie Weaver in Maryland (1940)

Jimmy Durante, Fred Allen, Joan Davis, Alice Faye, Tony Martin, and Marjorie Weaver in Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Cesar Romero and Marjorie Weaver in The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)

Jimmy Durante, Fred Allen, Joan Davis, Alice Faye, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tony Martin, Gregory Ratoff, and Marjorie Weaver in Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Henry Fonda, Ward Bond, Spencer Charters, Pauline Moore, Marjorie Weaver, and Arleen Whelan in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Harry Cording, Fuzzy Knight, Ralph Morgan, Milburn Stone, and Marjorie Weaver in The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944)

Ricardo Cortez, Robert Lowery, Sidney Toler, and Marjorie Weaver in Murder Over New York (1940)

Bob Crosby and Marjorie Weaver in Pardon My Rhythm (1944)

Joel McCrea, Pauline Moore, Marjorie Weaver, and Loretta Young in Three Blind Mice (1938)

Lloyd Nolan and Marjorie Weaver in Just Off Broadway (1942)

John Barrymore, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster, Johnny Downs, Donald Meek, George Murphy, Ruth Terry, and Marjorie Weaver in Hold That Co-ed (1938)

This saucy and engaging Tennessee born-and-bred brunette beauty came into the world on March 2, 1913, the daughter of John Thomas Weaver and Ellen Martin, both non-professionals. She attended private and high schools while growing up and attended the University of Kentucky and the University of Indiana. Showing early signs of a musical talent, she instinctively made use of her beauty and singing capabilities as she strove to find a place for herself in the entertainment business.

Paying her dues as a band singer, model, and stage performer (with the McCauley Stock Company and in Billy Rose's Shrine Minstrels), Marjorie made an inauspicious film debut in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) in an uncredited bit part. 20th Century Fox saw something special in her, however, and signed her up in 1936. Her first few years were uneventful playing a round of alluring bit parts as chorus girls and secretary/receptionist types. Moving up the credits ladder she found lead and second lead femme roles coming her way, typically essaying the resourceful but wholesome daughter, paramour or "girl Friday" type opposite a number of virile and handsome leading men, including Ricardo Cortez in The Californian (1937); Tyrone Power in Second Honeymoon (1937); Warner Baxter in I'll Give a Million (1938); John Barrymore in Hold That Co-ed (1938); and Cesar Romero in The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939). In the comedy Sally, Irene and Mary (1938), Alice Faye, Joan Davis and Marjorie made up the distaff trio of starry-eyed hopefuls (Marjorie played "Mary"), while providing lovely distraction in a couple of The Ritz Brothers vehicles -- Life Begins in College (1937) and Kentucky Moonshine (1938). One of her best parts came opposite Henry Fonda as Mary Todd to his Abe Lincoln in the quality bio-drama Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). She was also top-billed in such programmers as Murder Among Friends (1941) and Man at Large (1941). Most of her assignments, however, were relegated to "B" pictures and following co-star roles in two "Charlie Chan" and three "Michael Shayne" mysteries, Marjorie left Fox (in 1942) by choice and free-lanced. Her rating did not improve much, however, although she was seen to good advantage in the serial The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944). She made her last inconsequential movies with Fashion Model (1945) and Leave It to Blondie (1945).

Marjorie decided to retire from the business in 1945 and, save for an unbilled part (by accident) in We're Not Married! (1952) over at Fox, that was all she wrote. Married to Don Briggs in 1943, she and her husband had a son and daughter, Joel and Leigh, and later owned and operated a classy liquor establishment in the Westwood area of Los Angeles. She died following a stroke in 1994.

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