Marion Burns

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Marion Burns 9 August 1907 22 December 1993 was an American film actress of the 1930s She is best known for having starred opposite John Wayne in the 1935 film The Dawn Rider and opposite him again that same year in Paradise Canyon Burns was born in Los Angeles California making her way to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting She received her first film role in 1931 starring opposite Bill Cody in Oklahoma Jim That film started her on the path of starring in western films as a heroine In 1932 she starred opposite George OBrien in The Golden West followed by Me and My Gal that same year 1934 and 1935 would be her biggest years with her appearing in six films three each year two of which were uncredited and the most notable being the two John Wayne films Her first film in 1934 was The Devil Tiger In The Devil Tiger Director Clyde E Elliott allowed his hero Kane Richmond to fight a 25 foot python Richmond hated doubles and had insisted The actor on his feet on the ground on his feet again succeeded in holding the snakes snapping mouth away from his face while struggling to free himself from the triple coils around his body At the height of the struggle the heroine Marion Burns runs in and saves the hero from the python Miss Burns had to fight the snake too in order to get at Richmonds pistol with which she was supposed to shoot the python She played her own scene as well In the 1934 film Born to Be Bad Burns starred alongside Cary Grant and Loretta Young In her last film of 1935 she starred opposite Lloyd Hughes in the crime drama Rip Roaring Riley It would be her last film for a span of ten years She married twice during her career Her first marriage was to actor Bruce MacFarlane which ended in divorce Her second marriage was in 1934 to actor Kane Richmond She returned to acting three times and only briefly following 1935The first time was in a stage appearance in Leaning on Letty in January of 1936 at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles The second time was in 1945 alongside her husband in Brenda Starr Reporter which starred Kane Richmond and Joan Woodbury The third time wasnt until 1961 when she appeared on one episode of the television series My Three Sons She eventually settled in Laguna Niguel California where she was living at the time of her death on December 22 1993 Description above from the Wikipedia article Marion Burns licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia