Marguerite Churchill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marguerite Churchill (b. December 25, 1910, Kansas City, Missouri - d. January 9, 2000) was an early movie actress with a film career spanning from 1929 to 1952, and played leading lady to John Wayne in The Big Trail (1930), the first widescreen movie and Wayne's first leading role.
She also appeared opposite Spencer Tracy in Quick Millions (1931), George O'Brien in Riders of the Purple Sage (1931), Charles Farrell in Girl Without a Room (1933), and Boris Karloff in The Walking Dead (1936).
Churchill appeared in more than 25 films and was married to her one-time costar George O'Brien from July 15, 1933 until their divorce in 1948; they had two children, one of whom was novelist Darcy O'Brien, whom she outlived by two years.
She died in 2000, aged 89, on January 9, 2000 of natural causes in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
