# Trilby's Last Song: Marian Marsh dead at 93 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034 "2006-11-11T19:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/1 "2006-11-11T19:12:45Z")
[Marian Marsh](http://imdb.com/name/nm0550620/), one of the last of the early-talkie stars, has died, according to today’s NYT (she was kinda overshadowed by Jack Palance). [Here’s](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.filmweeklymagazine.com/images/MarianMarshSep32.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.filmweeklymagazine.com/MarianMarshSep32.htm&h=430&w=321&sz=35&hl=en&start=23&tbnid=XVVGXyDlwlH6nM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Marian-Marsh%2522%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN)a photo of her, to jog your memory. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/2 "2006-11-11T21:30:15Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] [Marian Marsh](http://imdb.com/name/nm0550620/), one of the last of the early-talkie stars, has died, according to today’s NYT (she was kinda overshadowed by Jack Palance). [Here’s](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.filmweeklymagazine.com/images/MarianMarshSep32.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.filmweeklymagazine.com/MarianMarshSep32.htm&h=430&w=321&sz=35&hl=en&start=23&tbnid=XVVGXyDlwlH6nM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=94&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Marian-Marsh%2522%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN)a photo of her, to jog your memory. [/QUOTE] Sad. Just watched \*Svengali \*again recently. What a weird movie, especially when you double-feature it with _Rasputin and the Empress_, as I did. Those Barrymores. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/3 "2006-11-11T22:34:54Z")
Damn. Just bought and watched a DVD of _The Black Room_ a week or so ago (one of the 4 films in the Boris Karloff Icons of Horror Collection) and Marian was all kinds of hot in it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/4 "2006-11-12T00:33:17Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Sad. Just watched \*Svengali \*again recently. What a weird movie, especially when you double-feature it with _Rasputin and the Empress_, as I did. Those Barrymores. [/QUOTE] If I remember correctly, _Rasputin and the Empress_ actually lasts longer than the Russian Revolution itself did, yes? Marian was quite charming in early '30s movies like _Beauty and the Boss_ and _Under Eighteen_. Here’s something interesting from her IMDB bio: > [@](#): > > In the 1960s Marian founded Desert Beautiful, a non-profit, all volunteer conservation organization to promote environmental and beautification programs. “We planted palm trees along the west coast and were the first to plant palms in the lower valley (Coachella) to Palm Springs. If you want to leave something behind, plant a tree!” she told author Dan Van Neste in a 1998 interview. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/5 "2006-11-12T05:24:31Z")
**Eve** , who gave her the name “Marian Marsh”? It’s so melodious somehow… Looks like I’ll be making a trip to my Netflix queue next. ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/6 "2006-11-12T06:03:42Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] …_The Black Room_…Marian was all kinds of hot in it. [/QUOTE] Goody. I want to check her, uh, it, out. Another in the too-long “why isn’t it on DVD yet” list is [Beauty and the Boss](http://imdb.com/title/tt0021647/), when she was 18. If she’s not quite hot enough to melt the celluloid, she is inspiringly cute and charming. The rest of the cast – like Charles Butterworth – has lots of fun too. She doesn’t do much in [Whoopee!](http://imdb.com/title/tt0021549/), but she is sweet 16 and in (2-strip) Technicolor. A good movie, and watching “Stetson” many times may be one of the less effective ways to avoid thinking about underage women. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trilbys-last-song-marian-marsh-dead-at-93/380034/7 "2006-11-12T16:04:23Z")
I’d forgotten she was in _Whoopee!_ I’m always too busy watching adorable Betty Grable, who was, what, five or six years old?