Marie Prevost Biography

Fast Facts

• Left the Keystone Film Corporation to work at Universal, where she appeared in films like "The Moonlight Follies" and "Kissed․"
• Made her screen acting debut in the short film "His Father's Footsteps" in 1915
• Was discovered by Mack Sennett while working as a secretary at a law firm that represented the Keystone Film Corporation and became one of his Bathing Beauties in 1915
• Also worked at Warner Bros․, where she appeared in a number of films directed by Ernst Lubitsch, including "The Marriage Circle" and "Three Women․"
• Best known for her role as Mizzi Stock in "The Marriage Circle" and as Helen Hayes in "The Racket․"
• Her secret marriage to socialite Sonny Gerke caused trouble when, to publicize the film "The Beautiful and the Damned," Jack Warner announced without her consent that she would marry her co-star, Kenneth Harlan, on set
• Personal struggles later in life caused her film career to fail, and when it was discovered upon her death in 1937 that she had only $300 to her name, the Hollywood community created the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital