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- Birth nameMaryon Eloise Aye
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- Maryon Aye
- Marion Aye was born Maryon Eloise Aye on April 5, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a lawyer who moved the family to California. She was discovered by Fatty Arbuckle and started her career at Balboa Studios. When she was fifteen Marion lied about her age to elope with cameraman Sherman Plaskett. Sadly he passed away just a year later. After moving to New York City she worked at Bothwell Browne's Revue and became a Mack Sennett bathing beauty. Marion appeared in more than a dozen films including The Hick, Montana Bill, and The Weak-End Party with Stan Laurel. She also starred in a series of Cactus Westerns with Bob Reeves. In 1921 she made headlines when she became the first star to sign a contract with a morality clause in it. The following year was chosen to be one of the first Wampas baby stars along with Colleen Moore and Lois Wilson.
Her second marriage, to press agent Harry Wilson, ended in 1924. That same year Marion appeared in a successful stage production of White Collars. She seemed destined for stardom but her career never took off. Her last movie role was in the 1930 drama Up The River. Marion continued to work on the stage and the radio. Unfortunately she suffered from depression and in 1935 she attempted suicide. She married actor Robert Forester in 1936. Marion tried to make a comeback in 1951 and auditioned for a role on television. When she didn't get the part she became despondent. On July 10, 1951 she swallowed a large amount of poison in a Culver City motel. She was hospitalized but tragically she died eleven days later at the age of forty-eight. Her husband later told reporters that he never took her threats of suicide seriously. Marion was buried next to her mother at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.- IMDb Mini Biography By: ClassicHollywoodActresses
- SpousesRoss Forrester(September 22, 1936 - July 21, 1951) (her death)Harry Wilson(January 23, 1920 - August 1924) (divorced)Sherman William Plaskett(March 11, 1918 - October 5, 1918) (his death)
- Posing in a bathing suit
- Screen and stage actress.
- WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922.
- Discovered by Mack Sennett while walking on the beach.
- In 1922 she became the first actress to sign a contract with a morality clause.
- Discovered, semi-conscious, in a motel room in Culver City, CA, having swallowed poison. She died 11 days later.
- Give me a non-professional husband! Nothing is so wearing as too much of the same thing, and I believe an actor or director would give one no rest from shop talk. Besides, a man outside the studio is far more apt to remain the lover, for to him you can preserve the glamor of the screen. Nothing destroys his illusion of you, for he is unlike the man inside who knows all about illusions!
- I've come face to face to Hollywood in it's worst form. Friends console me by talking about what I used to be but I'm sick of living in the past.
- All my life it seems to me I have longed to play Juliet, and I don't care much who the Romeo is either, and someday I'm going to do it if I have to put it on in a garage and build my own balcony. At any rate I can't be arrested for having the desire.
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