Joan Marsh

About Joan Marsh

Who is it?: Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day: July 10, 1913
Birth Place:  Porterville, California, United States
Died On: August 10, 2000(2000-08-10) (aged 87)\nOjai, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Leo
Other names: Dorothy D. Rosher
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1915–1944
Spouse(s): Charles S. Belden (19??-1943; divorced) John D. W. Morrill (1943-19??)

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Joan Marsh was born on July 10, 1913 in  Porterville, California, United States, is Actress, Soundtrack. A brassy, blue-eyed platinum blonde of the 1930s in the Jean Harlow tradition. Joan was the daughter of Hollywood cinematographer Charles Rosher and appeared as a child in Mary Pickford movies (on which her father worked as cameraman) billed as Dorothy Rosher. She acted in some amateur dramatics as well but seems to have had little professional training. However, The Times in 1929 referred to her "extraordinary speaking and singing voice" at this crucial period when sound pictures began to replace silent cinema. When she was signed by Universal for King of Jazz (1930), she adopted the stage name Joan Marsh. A fairly busy actress alternating leads and second leads throughout the decade and into the mid-40s, she is perhaps best remembered opposite Warner Oland in Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) and as Dimples in Road to Zanzibar (1941). Long under contract to MGM, she was also featured in two Greta Garbo films, Inspiration (1931) and Anna Karenina (1935). In lighter fare her characters tended to have names like Beanie, Toots or Cuddles. It seems, Joan Marsh was also an accomplished dancer, especially adept at the two most popular dances of the era, the Charleston and the Black Bottom. On screen she performed a ballroom routine with Edward J. Nugent in Dancing Feet (1936). On radio, Joan replaced Beatrice Lillie as hostess of the musical variety show Flying Red Horse Tavern in 1936, as well providing the vocals for Lennie Hayton's Orchestra.Joan's first husband was the screenwriter Charles Belden, her second, a Captain John Merrill of Army Air Transport Command. Her hobbies included horse riding, tennis and golf. Joan retired from acting after her final picture for Poverty Row outfit Monogram in 1944 and in later years owned a Los Angeles stationary business, Paper Unlimited.
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Biography/Timeline

1915

In 1915 Marsh made her first film appearance, an uncredited one, in the short The Mad Maid of the Forest. Later that same year she was also cast in Hearts Aflame and then billed as Dorothy Rosher. In 1917 she appeared too in The Little Princess and in no less than five other productions in 1918, including the comedy-drama Women's Weapons for Paramount Pictures. 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).

1943

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 then continued performing on screen in small roles for the next decade. In 1936, on radio, she sang on the CBS program Flying Red Horse Tavern. The following year, during the filming of Charlie Chan on Broadway, Marsh met and later married Writer Charles Belden, who had co-written that film's screenplay. 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." Marsh made her final film appearance the next year in Follow the Leader.

2000

Marsh later managed a stationery shop, and she died at age 87 in Ojai, California in 2000.