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Marie Osborne More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

5 November 1911, Denver, Colorado, USA

Date of Death

11 November 2010, San Clemente, California, USA

Birth Name

Helen Alice Myres

Nickname

Little Mary Sunshine
Baby Marie

Spouse

Murray F. Yeats	(1945 - 27 January 1975) (his death)
Frank J. Dempsey	(1931 - 1937) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Daughter, Joan

Marie has 5 grandchildren

Soon after her birth, little Helen became the foster daughter of Leon and Edith Osborn (the "e" later added to Osborne). At the suggestion of her foster mother, the girl's name was changed to Marie. The Osbornes left Denver for Long Beach, California in 1914 where soon the family obtained employment acting with the Balboa Amusement Company.

Director-actor 'Henry King(I)', unable at the moment to find a boy child actor, spotted Marie Osborne. It was her Dutch bob hair cut that attracted his attention. With the right clothes, she could easily pass for a boy, and with her foster parents' permission she was cast in Mr. King's Balboa production of The Maid of the Wild (1915).

Today Miss Osborne still lives in San Clemente, and enjoys an active family and social life.

Her father was H.L. Shriver, a man who became a tycoon and left her a substantial inheritance on his death. She was unaware that he was her father until after he had died.

In 1954, she became a costumer with 20th Century Fox, later becoming a wardrobe supervisor.

She played bit parts in movies from 1934 to 1950. She was also a stand-in for Ginger Rogers, Deanna Durbin, and Betty Hutton.