#marjorie beebe

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Marjorie Beebe in What, No Spinach? (1926); amazing bobbed hair! Look at that shingle!

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Murder at Dawn (The Death Ray) (1932) Richard Thorpe

October 13th 2024

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'Frank Eastman' was apparently a Sennett-only screen name for Beaston, a handsome stage leading man and baritone singer who was featured in over a dozen Sennett talkies during 1930-1932.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of the prominent banker, Frank attended college at Temple and Penn universities to prep for law school at his father's request. However, he wanted to be a newspaper reporter, and enrolled in the Columbia University School of Journalism. During summers, Beaston played stock and vaudeville on the East Coast, and won a role in 'The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary' with May Robson. Beaston got his big break when he landed the juvenile lead role of 'Jack Bedford' and 'Big Boy' with Al Jolson, which played Winter Garden for 22 weeks in 1925. Other Broadway roles came in 'Mud,' 'The Gorilla' as a wisecracking reporter, 'She Couldn't Say No,' 'Judy,' 'The Wasp's Nest' and 'Remote Control' all during 1924-29.

Beaston came to Hollywood in 1930 for a screen and voice test with Fox, but his contract expired 3 months later without a single film appearance-after which Sennett quickly signed him. Beaston adopted the last name 'Eastman' for his Sennett work, though all his prior stage appearances had come under his given name. No other film work seemed to follow, and he appears to have left show business for a career in another field. Beaston was married to Frances Sanger during the 1920s. He died at 85 in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, p. 500

gifs: Frank Eastman x Marge Beebe

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A Rush of Red to the Head Directors are Displaying a Pronounced Penchant for Hair of the Hotter Hues by Frank Vreeland. MOTION PICTURE magazine. July, 1928.

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marjorie beebe

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Andy Clyde-Marjorie Beebe "The cowcatcher´s daughter" 1931, de Babe Stafford.

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Marjorie Beebe (Kansas City, Missouri, 9/10/1908-Escondido, California 9/05/1983).

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<False Impressions (1932) produced by Mack Sennett>

A movie with an O.Henry-style plot in which a man and a woman lie to each other that they are rich when they are both poor.

While their boss, “Mr. Windermere,” is away, the servants of the house throw a party, and Edward (Edmund Burns), the house's butler, lies to Maizie (Marge Beebe), a woman he met in a clothing store, that he is Mr. Windermere; she introduces herself as a 'Lady', and introduces her friend Gertie (Dorothy Granger) to him as a 'Countess'. The two go to the party at Mr. Windermere's house in an attempt to raise their status. All of the invitees, except Maizie and Gertie, are servants at the house.