Marjorie Reynolds
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Marjorie Reynolds (August 12, 1917 - February 1, 1997) was an American film actress with over 70 film appearances. Born Marjorie Goodspeed in Buhl, Idaho, she was featured in such silent films as Scaramouche (1923). She appeared in her first speaking role in films in Murder in Greenwich Village (1937). She also appeared in bit parts in many A-pictures including Gone with the Wind (1939).
Her films include Holiday Inn (1942), Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear (1944) and the NBC version of the television series The Life of Riley (1953-1958). Reynolds has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In Holiday Inn she showed her great ability to both sing and dance, the former most famously in her duet with Bing Crosby in the Irving Berlin classic "White Christmas".
On February 1, 1997, the long-retired actress died of congestive heart failure in Manhattan Beach, California after collapsing while walking her dog.
