Marie Osmond

She is the co-founder of Children's Miracle Network with actor John Schneider. After having performed in 105 films Marie Prevost has now been honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6201 Hollywood Blvd. Currently, Marie hosts her own radio show, Marie and Friends, a nationally syndicated program. Her body was not discovered for days, and the police report stated that her pet dachshund "had chewed up her arms and legs in a futile attempt to awaken her." Her pauper's burial place is unknown. The film was produced by Jimmy Osmond. At the age of 38, almost penniless, and living alone in a rundown apartment house, Marie Prevost died of alcoholism and malnutrition. She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside the Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multi-media empire led to their downfall. The downward spiral became greatly aggravated when her weight problems forced her into repeated crash dieting in order to keep whatever bit part a movie studio offered.

She returned to television with brother Donny in 1998 to cohost the Donny and Marie Show, a talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons. By 1934, she had no work at all and her financial situation deteriorated dramatically. She garnered rave reviews as Anna in "The King and I" and Maria in "The Sound of Music" in the mid 90s, taking a break from her country music success. As a result of all this, her income declined and her growing dependency on alcohol added to her weight problems. She also starred in the TV movies "The Gift of Love" and "I Married Wyatt Earp". By the 1930s she was working less and less being offered only secondary parts, frequently in humiliating roles as a cheap-talking floozy. Marie played her mother in the TV movie Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family. However, her depression caused her to binge on food resulting in significant weight gain.

She has also admitted to a not-always smooth relationship with her current husband. She tried to get past her personal torment by burying herself in her work, becoming one of the busiest actresses of the day, starring in numerous roles as the temptingly beautiful seductress who in the end was always the honorable heroine. Perhaps the only dent in her squeaky-clean image is her divorce after 2 years of marriage (her religion, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints discourages divorce; her older brother, Tom, divorced his first wife). Devastated, the loss of her only remaining parent led to an addiction to alcohol and to Marie Prevost's own ultimate destruction. A regular on QVC, where her "Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Dolls" is its top-selling line, she has 8 children (5 adopted). While her mother was traveling in Florida with actress Vera Steadman and another Canadian friend, Hollywood studio owner, Al Christie, an automobile accident took her mother's life. Her husband eventually reached her by cell phone, and convinced her to come home. But, just when her career was blossoming, tragedy struck her family again in 1926.

She became so despondent, she left her family, planning never to return. This impressive performance, praised by the New York Times, resulted in Lubitsch casting her in Three Women in 1924 and in Kiss Me Again the following year. In October 1999, she disclosed she suffered from severe postpartum depression following the birth of her son. Of her performance as the beautiful seductress, Ernst Lubitsch said that she was one of the few actresses in Hollywood who knew how to underplay comedy to achieve the maximum effect. She and Donny also had a hit variety show, Donny & Marie (1976-1979). Her performance brought good reviews and director Ernst Lubitsch chose her for a major role opposite Adolphe Menjou in The Marriage Circle. She has charted with her brother Donny ("I'm Leaving It All Up To You"; "Deep Purple"), Dan Seals ("Meet Me in Montana"), and Paul Davis ("I Only Wanted You"). Scott Fitzgerald story, The Beautiful and the Damned.

At age 13, her song "Paper Roses" debuted at #1, the first time in country music history a female artist had done that. It was there that she got her first big break appearing in a standout role in the F. The only daughter of George and Olive Osmond and the 8th of their 9 children, Marie has released many albums and appeared on television for over 40 years. At Universal, Marie Prevost was still relegated to light comedies and after making only eight films she left to sign with Warner Brothers in 1922. Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American entertainer, a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Placed in numerous minor comedic roles as the sexy, innocent young girl, she worked in several films for Sennett's studio until 1921 when she signed with Universal Studios. Himself from a small town outside Montreal, Mack Sennett dubbed her as the exotic French girl, adding Mary Dunn to his collection of bathing beauties under the stage name of Marie Prevost.

While working as a secretary, the girl applied and obtained an acting job at the Hollywood studio owned by Mack Sennett. Following the early death of her beloved father, she moved with her mother and sister to Los Angeles, California. Born Mary Bickford Dunn in Sarnia, Ontario, she was educated in a Catholic convent school in Montreal, Quebec. Marie Prevost (November 8, 1898 - January 23, 1937) was an actress of the early days of cinema.

Ten Laps To Go - (1937) - (Her final film). Tango - (1936 ). Hands Across the Table - (1935). Keystone Hotel - (1935).

The Eleventh Commandment - (1933). Parole Girl - (1933). Strange Marriage - (1932). Hell Divers - (1931).

Slightly Married - (1932). Reckless Living - (1931). The Good Bad Girl - (1931). The Runaround - (1931).

War Nurse - (1930). Sweethearts on Parade - (1930). Ladies of Leisure - (1930). Party Girl - (1930).

The Sideshow - (1930). The Flying Fool - (1929 ). Godless Girl - (1929). Rush Hour - (1928).

A Blonde for a Night - (1928). The Girl in the Pullman - (1927). Getting Gertie's Garter - (1927). The Rush Hour - (1927).

Getting Gertie's Garter - (1927). Up In Mabel's Room - (1926). Kiss Me Again - (1925). The Marriage Circle - (1924).

Three Women - (1924). The Beautiful and the Damned - (1923). Red Lights - (1922). Her Night of Nights - (1922).

Kissed - (1922). The Crossroads of New York - (1922). Don't Get Personal - (1922). A Parisian Scandal - (1921).

Princess Virtue - (1921). Nobody's Fool - (1921). Love, Honor and Behave - (1920). Down on the Farm - (1920).

When Love is Blind - (1919). Yankee Doodle in Berlin - (1919). The Village Chestnut - (1918). Hide and Seek Detectives - (1918).

His Hidden Purpose - (1918). His Smothered Love - (1918). She Loved Him Plenty - (1918). Her Nature Dance - (1917).

Two Crooks - (1917).