Evelyn Laye

She died in London from respiratory failure. In her later years, she suffered from Parkinson's disease, dying from complications caused by it on March 10, 1984. During a tribute in 1992 at the London Palladium the actor John Mills described her as "the fairest prima donna this side of heaven". In 1933, Marlowe married Hollywood businessman Rodney Sprigg, and she retired from motion pictures to become a housewife. Her acting career ranks as one of the longest in British theatre. After Cooper left Our Gang in 1931 to appear in MGM features, Marlowe's Miss Crabtree character was used in only two more shorts, 1931's Shiver My Timbers and 1932's Readin' and Writin. Awarded an OBE in 1973, Laye continued acting well into her nineties. Besides her work in Our Gang, Marlowe also appeared in fellow Roach stars Laurel and Hardy's first feature film, Pardon Us.

Her other stage successes included Silver Wedding (1957) with Lawton, and The Amorous Prawn (1959) and Phil the Fluter (1969). She also has a small role in 1931's Little Daddy. She acted several times opposite her second husband, the actor Frank Lawton. The three Our Gang films which pair Marlowe with Jackie Cooper's character, Teacher's Pet (1930), School's Out (1930), and Love Business (1931), are among the three most famous films in the series. She continued acting in such productions as The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. He was searching for an actress to portray the schoolteacher in the series, and after producer Hal Roach suggested that Marlowe, a brunette, wear a blond wig to match Jackie Cooper's hair, she got the part. Married to the actor Sonnie Hale from 1926, Laye received widespread public sympathy when Hale left her for the actress Jessie Matthews in 1930. McGowan one day in a Los Angeles, California department store.

She made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. By chance, she happened to meet Our Gang director Robert F. Among her sucesses during the 1920s were Madame Pompadour, The Dollar Princess and Lilac Time. Marlowe didn't make an easy transfer over to talking pictures, and by 1930 was starting to drift away from acting. Born Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, England, Laye made her first stage appearance in 1915, and for the first few years of her career played mainly in musical comedy. Cloud, Minnesota, was a prolific actress in silent films during the 1920s, appearing in films opposite John Barrymore and Rin Tin Tin. Evelyn Laye (July 10 - 1900 - February 17, 1996) was a British theatre actress. Marlowe, a native of St.

June Marlowe (originally Gisella Goetten) (November 6, 1903 - March 10, 1984) was an American actress, most notable for appearing in six Our Gang short subjects as the lovely schoolteacher Miss Crabtree.