Marjorie Kane

born: 28 April 1905
Chicago, Illinois,
United States of America
died: 08 January 1992
Los Angeles, California,
United States of America
(heart failure/pneumonia, age 86)

American actress and singer who began on stage and on film in early talkies, becoming a frequent presence in Mack Sennett comedies of the early 1930s. After a brief spell in Roach films of the late 1930s, she worked at the Roach studio again in the 1950s as Gale Storm's stand-in on the television series "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show" (on the latter series, Roach veteran Betty Danko was once more working as ZaSu Pitts' stand-in).
She claimed her year of birth was 1909, but in reality it was 1905.
Real name: Marjorie Grace Kane
Height: 5'2"
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

4


1938
Merrily We Live
Rosa

1938
Swiss Miss
Chambermaid

1938
There Goes My Heart
Secretary

1939
Zenobia
Townswoman

Acknowledgements:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDZ-3J2L (birth record)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKDZ-3J2V (birth record)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2YM-Y6GW (christening)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCVH-TYQ (1930 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CN-6S5 (1940 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8DG-LPT (1951 marriage)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGT6-47Z (CA Death Index -- incorrect birth date)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9Y8-7JF (Social Security Death Index)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150478272 (Find a Grave -- incorrect birth and parental info)
https://www.threestooges.net/cast/actor/320 (The Three Stooges Online Filmography)
https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew1930moti#page/128/mode/1up/search/%22kane+margie%22 (1930 Motion Picture News Blue Book)
https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturealm00quig_0#page/n135/mode/1up/search/%22kane+babe%22 (1931 Motion Picture Almanac)
https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturealm00quig#page/n117/mode/1up/search/%22kane+babe%22 (1932 Motion Picture Almanac)
Jesse Brisson (notes and identification in Zenobia)

This page was last updated on: 14 November 2021