Marjorie Warfield(1902-1991)
- Actress
American stage, radio, and silent-film actress. A native of
Philadelphia, she was brought to California as a child by her family.
She gained some youthful stage experience before making her film debut
in 1921. She made a number of silent films (including entries in
Mort Peebles's and Harry Williams's "Snooky" series of shorts, and "The Hall-Room
Boys" series), and at least one talkie. She abandoned films with the
end of the silent era and worked on stage on Broadway and in national
tours. She starred in the radio program "Nobody's Children" and then,
as Margaret Chapin, she played on radio in "G.I. Wife" and "Little
Moments With Big People." She hosted a radio cooking show in the 1940s
under another name, Dorothy Derby. In her seventies, she returned to
the stage briefly. She died in a Los Angeles nursing home in 1991,
survived by writer Margaret Walker, her daughter with her first
husband, cinematographer Joseph Walker.
