From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMarguerite Churchill (December 26, 1910 – January 9, 2000) was an American film actress appearing in more than 25 films with a career spanning from 1929 to 1952. She is best known today as John Waynes first leading lady, in The Big Trail (1930).She was the daughter of a producer who owned a chain of theaters, but he died when she was ten years old. She was educated in New York City at the Professional Childrens School and the Theatre Guild Dramatic School. She appeared on stage and was applauded on Broadway as a leading lady when just sixteen years old. An official of the Fox Company saw her acting and gave her a contract which shortly afterwards led her to debut on screen in The Diplomats.Churchill played leading lady to John Wayne in Howard Hawks The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen epic and Waynes first leading role. She appeared with Wayne the following year in Girls Demand Excitement (1931), with Spencer Tracy and George Raft in Quick Millions (1931), with Will Rogers in Ambassador Bill (1931), with Warner Oland in Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), with George OBrien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), with Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), with Ralph Bellamy in The Final Hour (1936), with Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936), and with Edward Van Sloan in Draculas Daughter (1936).She died on January 9, 2000, aged 89, from natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. She was survived by her daughter, Orin.
Barbara Madison
Film 1950
Film 1929
Pat Corey
Film 1935
Dorothy Stone
Film 1931
Opal Peters
Film 1929
Kay Loring
Film 1933
Nancy Foster
Film 1936
Lois Allen
Film 1936
Marya Ossipoff
Film 1932
Jane Withersteen
Film 1931
Jane Carpenter
Film 1936
Louise Haller
Film 1930
Flo Russell
Film 1936
Sue Cole
Film 1935
Hélène Berthelot
Film 1929
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