Marion Martin

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BIRTHDAY

June 07, 1909

Philadelphia, PA

DIED

August 13, 1985

RECENT CREDITS

State of the Union (FILM) Apr. 30, 1948

Eadie Was a Lady (FILM) Jan. 23, 1945

It Happened Tomorrow (FILM) May. 28, 1944

Boom Town (FILM) Jan. 1, 1940

His Girl Friday (FILM) Jan. 1, 1940

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BIOGRAPHY

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The brassiest platinum blonde of them all, Marion Martin turned up in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, usually only for a moment or two but long enough to make an impression. Reportedly hailing from Philadelphia's Main Line, Martin had made her Broadway bow in a 1927 revival of Lombardi Ltd. but was rather more noticeable in burlesque where she vowed 'em with a voluptuous body and with a throaty singing voice to match. She began popping up in films around 1935 and went on to play a host of characters named Blondie, Fifi, Lola, and Dixie, rarely awarded a last name and usually only a line or two. But she almost always made the line count, as in Sinner in Paradise (1938), when he-man Bruce Cabot introduces himself with a terse "the name is Malone." "Does it make you happy," she quips, with that bored look she had come to favor. Martin's screen career lasted well into the 1950s but by then her once-statuesque build had turned quite blowsy. In her later years as the wife of a Southern California physician, she occasionally expressed a desire to return to show business but no projects materialized.

~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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