Marjorie Lord
| Marjorie Lord | |
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Marjorie Lord with Danny Thomas, 1957.
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| Born |
Marjorie Wollenberg July 26, 1918 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | November 28, 2015 (aged 97) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1935–2008 |
| Spouse(s) |
John Archer (1941–1955; 2 children) Randolph Hale (1958–1974; his death) Harry Volk (1976–2000; his death) |
| Children | Gregg Bowman Anne Archer |
| Parent(s) | George Charles and Lillian Rosalie (née Edgar) Wollenberg |
| Website | http://www.marjorielord.com |
Marjorie Lord (née Wollenberg; July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015) was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on Make Room for Daddy and later Make Room for Granddaddy.
Lord was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Lillian Rosalie (née Edgar) and George Charles Wollenberg. During her early childhood she was a ballet dancer. Her father was a cosmetics executive. Her paternal grandparents were German, as were two of her maternal great-grandparents. Her family moved to New York City when she was fifteen.
In 1935, at the age of 16, Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature (1945), Little Brown Jug (1946), and The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967).
Although most of Lord's success came in television, she said in 1963: "I am primarily a stage actress. That's what I was trained to do and that's my first love."
In the 1970s, Lord was active in dinner theater productions, spending 34 weeks in such presentations in 1973 alone.
One film reference book summarized Lord's movie career by saying, "For two decades, she played leading roles in mostly routine films ..."
Lord was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1935. While appearing in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton, director Henry Koster approached her and signed her to a contract with Universal Studios. She appeared in six feature films and a film serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack for Universal. Her film work includes a number of wartime pictures, including the 1943 mystery Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone in the title role. She also appeared in the western films Masked Raiders, Mexican Manhunt and Down Laredo Way. In 1966, she played Mrs. Martha Meade, the wife of Bob Hope's character in the screwball comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!.
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