Marie Prevost

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. Victor'
Naples au baiser de feu (1937) 'Naples Kiss of Fire'
L'Homme à abattre (1937) 'The Man who is to be Cut Down'
Prisons de femmes (1938) 'The Woman's Prison'
Le Puritain (1938) 'The Puritan'
La Maison du Maltais (1938) 'The House of Maltese'
Le Joueur (1938) 'The Player'
Gibraltar (1938)
La Tradition de minuit (1939) 'The Midnight Tradition'
L'Esclave blanche (1939) 'The White Slave'
Angélica (1940)
La Vénus aveugle (1941) 'Blind Venus'
Cartacalha, reine des gitans (1942) 'Cartacalha, the Gypsy Queen'
Feu sacré (1942) 'Sacred Fire'
Une femme dans la nuit (1943) 'A Woman in the Night'
Carmen (1945)
La Boîte aux rêves (1945) 'The Box of Dreams'
La Route du bagne (1945) 'The Road to Prison'
L'Affaire du collier de la reine (1946) 'The Affair of the Queen's Necklace'
Panique (1946) 'Panic'
La Colère des dieux (1946) 'The Wrath of Two'
Uomini sono nemici, Gli (1947) Italian
La Maison sous la mer (1947) 'The House Below the Sea'
Maya (1949)
Passion (1951) 'Passion'
Au coeur de la Casbah (1952) 'The Courage of the Casbah'
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1952) 'The Seven Deadly Sins'
Les Femmes sont des anges (1952)
Legione straniera (1952)
L'Uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953) 'The man, the beast, and the virtue' Italian
La Chair et le diable (1954) 'The Seat of the Devil'
Tournant dangereux (1955) 'Dangerous Turning Point'
Gueule d'ange (1955) 'Loudmouth'
L'Affaire des poisons (1955) 'The Poison Affair'
L'Inspecteur connaît la musique (1956) 'The Music Teacher'
Pitié pour les vamps (1956) 'Pity for the Vamps'
Pelusa (1960) 'Fluff'
Mélodie en sous-sol (1963) 'Melody Below Ground'
Nada (1974) 'Nothing'
. 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. La Chienne (1931) 'The Dog'
Il est charmant (1931) 'It Is Charming'
Liliom (1934)
Zouzou (1934)
Dédé (1934)
La Bandera (1935) 'The Bandage'
Princesse Tam Tam (1935)
Les Yeux noirs (1935) 'The Yeux Dark'
Retour au paradis (1935) 'Return to Heaven'
Deuxième bureau (1936) 'Second Desk'
La Belle équipe (1936) 'The Beautiful Gang'
Mademoiselle Docteur (1936) 'Miss Doctor'
Les Deux favoris (1936) 'The Two Favorite'
L'Ange du foyer (1936) 'The Angel of the House'
L'Étrange Monsieur Victor (1937) 'The Strange Mr. At the age of 38, almost penniless, and living alone in a rundown apartment house, Marie Prevost died of alcoholism and malnutrition. She died in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. 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. However, she also resided for many years in Italy where she made several Italian language films.

By 1934, she had no work at all and her financial situation deteriorated dramatically. She preferred to make films in her native France. As a result of all this, her income declined and her growing dependency on alcohol added to her weight problems. Romance was offered, and rejected, a Hollywood film contract in the 1930s. By the 1930s she was working less and less being offered only secondary parts, frequently in humiliating roles as a cheap-talking floozy. Her acting roles after 1956 were few, and she retired in 1974. However, her depression caused her to binge on food resulting in significant weight gain. From this time to the late fifties she was regarded as one of France's leading cinematic actresses and throughout the 1940s and 1950s she played dozens of femme fatales, fallen women (with hearts of gold) and vamps.

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. She appeared in several films over the next few years before making a strong impression in La belle équipe (1936). Devastated, the loss of her only remaining parent led to an addiction to alcohol and to Marie Prevost's own ultimate destruction. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was also elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. Viviane endured a small scandal winning Miss Paris due to the fact that she had a child. 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. Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. But, just when her career was blossoming, tragedy struck her family again in 1926.

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. 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. Her performance brought good reviews and director Ernst Lubitsch chose her for a major role opposite Adolphe Menjou in The Marriage Circle. Scott Fitzgerald story, The Beautiful and the Damned.

It was there that she got her first big break appearing in a standout role in the F. 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. 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).