Marceline Day (born Marceline Newlin; April 24, 1908 – February 16, 2000) was an American motion picture actress whose career began as a child in the 1910s and ended in the 1930s.[1]
Marceline Day | |
|---|---|
 Day in 1926 | |
| Born | Marceline Newlin April 24, 1908 |
| Died | February 16, 2000 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1924–1933 |
| Spouses | Arthur J. Klein
(m. 1930, divorced)John Arthur
(m. 1959; died 1980) |
| Relatives | Alice Day (sister) |
Early life
editMarceline Newlin was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Frank and Irene Newlin and the younger sister of film actress Alice Day. She attended Venice High School.[2]
Career
editDay began her film career after her sister Alice Day became a featured actress as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties in one and two-reel comedies for Keystone Studios. Day made her first film appearance with her sister in the 1924 Mack Sennett comedy Picking Peaches before being cast in a string of comedy shorts opposite actor Harry Langdon and a stint in early Hollywood Westerns opposite such silent film cowboy stars as Hoot Gibson, Art Acord and Jack Hoxie. Gradually, Day began appearing in more dramatic roles opposite such esteemed actors of the era as Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Norman Kerry, Ramón Novarro and Lon Chaney, as well as comedy legend Buster Keaton.
In 1926, Day was named one of the 13 WAMPAS Baby Stars, a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored 13 young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. Other notable recipients that year were Joan Crawford, Mary Astor, Janet Gaynor, and Dolores del Río. The publicity from the campaign added to Day's popularity, and in 1927, she appeared opposite John Barrymore in the romantic adventure The Beloved Rogue.
Day is probably best recalled for her appearances in the now lost 1927 horror classic London After Midnight directed by Tod Browning with Lon Chaney and Conrad Nagel, her role as Sally Richards in the 1928 comedy The Cameraman with Buster Keaton, and the 1929 drama The Jazz Age with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. By the late 1920s, Day's career had eclipsed the career of her sister Alice, who also was a popular actress. The two would appear together onscreen again in the 1929 musical The Show of Shows.
She married furrier Arthur J. Klein in 1930.[3][4] She was married for a second time in 1959 to John Arthur until his death on April 2, 1980. She had no children with either husband.[citation needed]
Although Day transitioned into sound films with little problem, her film roles gradually became lesser in quality, and she began working primarily for lower-rung film studios. By 1933, Day made the transition back to the Western genre, appearing in "B" Westerns starring Tim McCoy, Hoot Gibson, Ken Maynard, Jack Hoxie, and John Wayne. Her last film was The Fighting Parson with Gibson. After her retirement, Day rarely spoke of her years as an actress and never spoke to reporters or granted interviews.
Death
editOn February 16, 2000, Day was found dead in her kitchen, in her Cathedral City, California, home at the age of 91. She was cremated.[5]
Filmography
editFeatures
edit| Year | Title | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | The Splendid Road | Lilian Grey | Lost film |
| The Wall Street Whiz | Peggy McCooey | Lost film | |
| The White Outlaw | Mary Gary | ||
| Renegade Holmes, M.D. | Marie Darnton | ||
| The Taming of the West | Beryl | Lost film | |
| 1926 | College Days | Mary Ward | |
| That Model from Paris | Jane Miller | ||
| Fools of Fashion | Mary Young | ||
| The Gay Deceiver | Louise de Tillois | Lost film | |
| The Boy Friend | Ida May Harper | Lost film | |
| Looking for Trouble | Tulip Hellier | Lost film | |
| The Barrier | Necia | Lost film | |
| Hell's Four Hundred | Barbara Langham | Lost film | |
| Western Pluck | Clare Dyer | Lost film | |
| 1927 | London After Midnight | Lucille Balfour | Lost film |
| The Road to Romance | Serafina | ||
| Captain Salvation | Mary Phillips | ||
| Rookies | Betty Wayne | ||
| Red Clay | Agnes Burr | Lost film | |
| The Beloved Rogue | Charlotte de Vauxcelles | ||
| 1928 | Stolen Love | Joan Hastings | Lost film |
| Restless Youth | Dixie | Lost film | |
| Freedom of the Press | June Westcott | Lost film | |
| Driftwood | Daisy Smith | Lost film | |
| The Cameraman | Sally | ||
| Detectives | Lois | ||
| A Certain Young Man | Phyllis | Lost film | |
| The Big City | Sunshine | Lost film | |
| Under the Black Eagle | Margarta | ||
| 1929 | The Show of Shows | Performer in 'Meet My Sister' number | |
| The One Woman Idea | Lady Alicia Douglas/Alizar, half-caste dancer | ||
| The Wild Party | Faith Morgan | ||
| Trent's Last Case | Evelyn Manderson | Incomplete film | |
| A Single Man | Maggie | Lost film | |
| The Jazz Age | Sue Randall | ||
| 1930 | Hot Curves | Girl | |
| Sunny Skies | Mary Norris | ||
| Temple Tower | Patricia Verney | ||
| Paradise Island | Ellen Bradford | ||
| 1931 | The Pocatello Kid | Mary Larkin | |
| The Mad Parade | Dorothy Quinlan | ||
| The Mystery Train | Joan Lane | ||
| Sky Raiders | Grace Devine | ||
| 1932 | The Crusader | Marcia Brandon | |
| The King Murder | Pearl Hope | ||
| Broadway to Cheyenne | Ruth Carter | ||
| The Arm of the Law | Sandy | ||
| The Fighting Fool | Judith | ||
| 1933 | The Fighting Parson | Suzan Larkin | |
| By Appointment Only | Miss Brown aka Brownie | ||
| The Flaming Signal | Molly James | ||
| Damaged Lives | Laura Hall | ||
| The Telegraph Trail | Alice Keller | ||
| Via Pony Express | Betty Castelar |
Shorts
edit| Year | Title | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | Feet of Mud | Short | |
| The Hansom Cabman | His Fiancee | Short | |
| The Luck o' the Foolish | His Wife | Short | |
| Black Oxfords | The Girl | Short | |
| Picking Peaches | Bathing Beauty | Short | |
| 1925 | The Party | Short | |
| His New Suit | Mildred | Short | |
| Short Pants | Short | ||
| Discord in 'A' Flat | Short | ||
| Heart Trouble | Marceline | Short |
References
edit- ^ "Day, Marceline (1907–2000)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. 2007.
- ^ Walker, Brent E. (2013). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland. p. 498. ISBN 9780786477111. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ "Marceline Day to Wed Furrier". The New York Times. December 27, 1930.
- ^ "Marceline Day Re-Wed. Film Actress and A.J. Klein Have Second Ceremony in New York". The New York Times. June 26, 1931.
- ^ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
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