Joan Marsh

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Early years

Marsh, born Dorothy D. Rosher,Template:Efn was the daughter of Lolita and Charles Rosher. She was born in Porterville California.[1] Her parents later divorced.[2]

Career

In 1915, Marsh made her first film appearance, an uncredited one, in the short The Mad Maid of the Forest, which her father was filming.[3] Later that same year she was also cast in Hearts Aflame and then billed as Dorothy Rosher.[3] In 1917 she appeared too in A Little Princess and in no less than five other productions in 1918, including the comedy-drama Women's Weapons for Paramount Pictures.[4] After these minor roles as a baby and toddler, Marsh finally became a star in Mary Pickford films such as Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and Pollyanna (1920).[3]

Marsh made her last film appearance as a child in 1921 but returned to films nine years later with a role in King of Jazz, in which she sang with Bing Crosby. She subsequently worked in a series of shorts and other feature films before she played W. C. Fields's daughter in You're Telling Me! in 1934. She continued performing on-screen in small roles for the next decade.[3] In 1936, she sang on the CBS radio program Flying Red Horse Tavern.[5]

In 1931, Marsh was one of 13 actresses named as WAMPAS baby stars.[6]

She made her final film appearance in 1944 in Follow the Leader.[3]

Personal life

During the filming of Charlie Chan on Broadway, Marsh met writer Charles Belden, who had co-written the film's screenplay.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". They married on December 2, 1938, in Beverly Hills, California.[7] Their marriage ended in divorce in 1943—first in Los Angeles, California, on August 26, 1943, followed by a second divorce October 23, 1943, "so she won't have to wait a year before remarrying."[8]

In 1943, Marsh married Army Captain John D. W. Morrill in Santa Monica, California.[9]

Later years and death

Marsh later managed a stationery shop. She died at age 86 in Ojai, California[3] on August 10, 2000.[10]

Partial filmography

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References

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  3. ↑ a b c d e f Katz, Ephraim and Nolen, Ronald. The Film Encyclopedia, pp. 1166-67 (HarperCollins 2013).
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  5. ↑ Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition, pg. 234. McFarland & Company, Inc. Template:ISBN.
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