Marjorie Weaver

Marjorie Weaver was an American film actress whose career ran from the 1930s into the early 1950s. Born in Crossville, Tennessee, she studied at the University of Kentucky and later at Indiana University Bloomington, winning beauty contests at both. She worked first on stage, also modeling and singing, before an uncredited film debut in 1934. Steady roles followed, and by the late 1930s she was earning credited parts in larger productions, including The Californian (1937) with Ricardo Cortez and Second Honeymoon (1937) with Tyrone Power. From 1938 to 1945 she took twenty-seven starring roles, some in B movies, most notably Mary Todd Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), which paired her with Henry Fonda and Alice Brady. She appeared in the Michael Shayne mystery series with Lloyd Nolan and in Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise. Her last role of consequence was in Fashion Model (1945), opposite Robert Lowery; after four minor roles in 1952, she retired. She died in 1994.