Marjorie White

About Marjorie White

Canadian comedienne, a former vaudevillian, Majorie White appeared in a few films but died before making a real mark. Born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1904 (according to her birth certificate), she was the daughter of a railroad worker. She entered show business at the age of 4 as one of the Winnipeg Kiddies, a troupe of child performers who toured Canada and the US. She danced and sang with the troupe until she got too old to continue and then, at 20, went to New York and played in vaudeville. Teamed for a time with Thelma White as "The White Sisters", she kept the name White after the act broke up. She married Eddie Tierney, who was her partner in a vaudeville act. She appeared on Broadway in several musicals between 1926 and 1929, when she and her husband moved to Hollywood. She began getting parts in pictures, starting with leading roles in Happy Days (1929) and Sunny Side Up (1929). She returned to Broadway for a musical, "Hot-Cha", in 1932, but came back to Hollywood thereafter. Today, perhaps her best-remembered films are Just Imagine (1930) and the first Columbia short from The Three Stooges, Woman Haters (1934), in which she was delightful as the wife Larry Fine needed to keep secret from his fellow Woman Haters Club members. Unfortunately, this was her last film. On August 20, 1935, in Santa Monica, California, she was a passenger in a car driven by Marlow Lovell that sideswiped a couple who had been married only an hour before. The car overturned and White was the only person seriously injured. She died of internal hemorrhaging the next day at a Hollywood hospital. She was buried at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now Hollywood Forever Cemetery). She was survived by her husband, her parents and several siblings.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver jumblejim@prodigy.net