POLLY MORAN AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1883 JUNE 28 -1952 JANUARY 25

 POLLY MORAN AMERICAN ACTRESS 

BORN 1883 JUNE 28 -1952 JANUARY 25

Pauline Theresa Moran (June 28, 1883 – January 25, 1952) billed as Polly Moran, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage and screen and comedian.

Career[edit]

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moran started in vaudeville, and widely toured North America, as well as various other locations that included Europe and South Africa. An attractive beauty of Irish descent, she left vaudeville in 1914 after signing for Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios as one of his Sennett Bathing Beauties.^[1] There she honed the style of the brash, loud-mouthed, knock-about comedian by which she later became known. She proved effective at slapstick^[1] and remained with Sennett for several years until she was signed by MGM.

She partnered with the famous Broadway star Marie Dressler in The Callahans and the Murphys (1927); and the two appeared in eight additional films together, such as Chasing Rainbows (1930), Caught Short (1930), and Prosperity (1932).^[1][2] After Dressler's death in 1934, Moran's career declined, and she only starred in low-budget comedies or B-movies. In 1940, Moran retired to her home in Laguna Beach, California, but maintained an active Hollywood social life and was known for practical jokes. She once ran a failed campaign for a Laguna Beach City Council seat on a "Pro Dogs" platform.^[3]

She made a brief comeback appearance in the Tracy-Hepburn classic comedy Adam's Rib in 1949. After playing the role, she said "I worked in the picture two days before I got a look at myself. I never went back."^[4]

Honors[edit]

Moran has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard.^[5]

Personal life and death[edit]

After a marriage that ended in divorce in 1917, Moran married attorney and former prizefighter Martin T. Malone in 1933. Malone was abusive; he beat her and threatened to kill her, but she would not leave him.^[6] She had one child, a son, who was adopted between her two marriages. She lived at 530 Mountain Road in Laguna Beach, California.^[7] Moran died of cardiovascular disease in 1952. Although a number of biographies give Moran's date of death as being January 25, 1952, her grave marker reads January 24, 1952.

Partial filmography[edit]

• Their Social Splash (1915, Short) - Polly - the Unruly Guest
• The Pullman Bride (1917, Short) - Sheriff Nell - the Pullman Drunk's Wife
• Skirts (1921)
• Two Weeks with Pay (1921) - Chambermaid
• The Affairs of Anatol (1921) - Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
• Luck (1923) - Dumb Dora - Fight Enthusiast
• The Blackbird (1926) - Flower Lady at Music Hall (uncredited)
• The Scarlet Letter (1926) - Jeering Townswoman (uncredited)
• Twinkletoes (1926) - Minor Role (uncredited)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926) - Family Retainer with Bouquet (uncredited)
• The Show (1927) - Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)
• The Callahans and the Murphys (1927) - Mrs. Murphy
• The Thirteenth Hour (1927) - Polly
• London After Midnight (1927) - Miss Smithson, the New Maid
• The Enemy (1927) - Baruska
• Buttons (1927) - Polly
• The Divine Woman (1928) - Mme. Pigonier
• Rose-Marie (1928) - Lady Jane
• Bringing Up Father (1928) - Maggie Jiggs
• The Trail of '98 (1928) - Lars' Nagging Wife (uncredited)
• Detectives (1928) - Hotel Guest (uncredited)
• Telling the World (1928) - Landlady
• Beyond the Sierras (1928) - Inez
• While the City Sleeps (1928) - Mrs. Minnie McGinnis
• Show People (1928) - The Maid
• Shadows of the Night (1928) - Entertainer
• A Lady of Chance (1928) - Hotel Maid Who Coughs (uncredited)
• Honeymoon (1928) - Polly
• The Five O'Clock Girl (1928)
• China Bound (1929) - Sarah
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) - Polly Moran
• Speedway (1929) - Waitress
• The Unholy Night (1929) - Polly - the Maid
• So This Is College (1929) - Polly
• Hot for Paris (1929) - Polly
• Crazy House (1930, a short comedy with Benny Rubin)
• Chasing Rainbows (1930) - Polly
• The Girl Said No (1930) - Polly
• Caught Short (1930) - Polly Smith
• Way Out West (1930) - Pansy
• Those Three French Girls (1930) - Elmer's Wife (uncredited)
• Way for a Sailor (1930) - Polly
• Remote Control (1930) - Polly
• Paid (1930) - Polly (uncredited)
• Reducing (1931) - Polly Rochay
• The Stolen Jools (1931, Short) - Norma Shearer's Maid
• It's a Wise Child (1931) - Bertha
• Politics (1931) - Ivy Higgins
• Guilty Hands (1931) - Aunt Maggie
• The Passionate Plumber (1932) - Albine
• Prosperity (1932) - Lizzie Praskins
• Le plombier amoureux (1932) - Patricia Alden
• Alice in Wonderland (1933) - Dodo Bird
• Hollywood Party (1934) - Henrietta Clemp
• Down to Their Last Yacht (1934) - Nella Fitzgerald
• Two Wise Maids (1937) - Prudence Matthews
• Ladies in Distress (1938) - Lydia Bonney
• Red River Range (1938) - Mrs. Maxwell
• Ambush (1939) - Cora, diner owner
• Tom Brown's School Days (1940) - Sally Harowell
• Meet the Missus (1940) - Widow Ella Jones
• Petticoat Politics (1941) - Widow Jones
• Adam's Rib (1949) - Mrs. McGrath
• The Yellow Cab Man (1950) - Bride's Mother (final film role)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Born	June 28, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died	January 25, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA  (heart ailment)
Birth Name	Pauline Theresa Moran
Height	5' 4" (1.63 m)

Mini Bio (1)

She was one rowdy, no-holds-barred entertainer. Comedienne Polly Moran was considered second only to perhaps Louise Fazenda as Mack Sennett's funniest lady during her silent-era heyday. Born in 1883, Polly was made for vaudeville, touring all over the world, notably Europe. Sennett snapped her up in 1915 and she clowned around for him for several years in scores of his classic one- and two-reelers. At age 40 she, just by happenstance, paired up with, of all people, equally homely and down-to-earth Marie Dressler. The two scene-stealing man-chasers created comedy magic together as a cinematic MGM team, riotous in their eight films together including The Callahans and the Murphys (1927), their first, Chasing Rainbows (1930), Caught Short (1930), and Politics (1931). Sound was not quite the kick in the pants Polly had experienced in silents but she survived, trooper that she was, in both servile and dowager roles. By the 40s, however, she had been reduced to a smattering of bit parts. A small but showy role in Adam's Rib (1949) might have sparked a possible resurgence, but Polly died of heart problems into her 69th year before she was able to seize the moment.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

Spouse (2)

Martin T. Malone	(1933 - 25 January 1952) (her death)
Bob Sandberg	(11 March 1911 - 1917) (divorced)

Trivia (3)

She adopted a son in between marriages.

In his autobiography, John Meredyth Lucas remembered attending Pacific Military Academy with Polly's son Jack: "Jack was small, dark with black curly hair. Officially, he was Polly's adopted son, although gossip suggested he was her son by a black or Hispanic lover".

VoluptuVous figure.

About Dolores Moran (JANUARY 27,1924 – FEBRUARY 5,1982)

 

About Dolores Moran 

(JANUARY 27,1924 – FEBRUARY 5,1982)

Dolores Moran was born on January 27, 1924 in Stockton, California. On February 5, 1982. She was the daughter of James G. "Jim" Moran and his wife, Mary Esther Moran. She had a sister, Marjorie.

She passed away in Woodland Hills, California, after a battle with cancer, at the age of 58.

Dolores Moran was a beautiful, very well-endowed teenager who won a bunch of teen beauty contests, such as becoming the Queen of Butte County Fair. The prize was a trip to Yosemite National Park, where she was photographed by NAtional Geographic photographers.

In 1941, Dolores was spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout at a Sacramento Elks Lodge picnic, and signed a contracting with Warner Brothers, at the age of 17.

She was given singing and dancing lessons, and appeared twice a week doing tap routines in army camp shows. The year 1943 was a good year for Dolores. Dolores Moran had become a popular pin-up girl with soldiers and appeared on magazine covers like Yank and The Army Weekly. The Flying Tigers also claimed her as their "Tiger Girl", to remind them who they were fighting for. She was also cast in OLD ACQUAINTANCE; a film starring Bette Davis, and Miriam Hopkins.

Dolores Moran was at first offered uncredited roles, including: THE LAST RIDE; in 1944, playing Molly Stevens, in 1943's THREE CHEERS FOR THE GIRLS, as a chorus girl, and as the young blonde in the 1943 film,THE HARD WAY, and in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY;(1942) as a girl.

She chose to try to further her career by having affairs with married movers and shakers of the film industry, and had quite a bad girl reputation by the time she was 22!

In 1944, she was cast in a Bogart and Bacall film, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, having a supportive role as a sexy lounge singer, MME. Hellene de Bursac. Her name was listed under Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. Perhaps this change in status was because she was having an affair with film's married director, Howard Hawks. However, once cast, her role was shrunk, in favor of expanding Bacall's part.

Also, in 1944, Dolores was included in Warner Brothers' all star cast in the morale boosting, WW2 film, HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN. She played herself in a small cameo part; being the personality behind the popular pin-up girl that was so important to army soldiers and airmen a like.

In 1945, Dolores got her biggest supporting role yet, as Fran, in the film, THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT. She got third billing, under Jack Benny and Alexis Smith. Also in 1945, she got third billing in a film, TOO YOUNG TO KNOW, playing the character, Patsey O'Brien. The film starred Joan Leslie and Robert Hutton.

In the film, CHRISTMAS EVE;(1947) was the first time Dolores Moran worked with producer Benedict Bogeaus. Dolores became the other woman with this married man, 22 years her senior. Benedict and Dolores married in 1952, after Bofeaus divorced his wife, who killed herself because of grief. Bogeaus insisted that Dolores be in only his films, which stifled her career. She also suffered with a health condition that kept her out of films, off and on.

In between doing Benedict's film projects, Dolores tried acting as a guest star on some television series: DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT;(1952), MY HERO;(1952) and MR. AND MRS. NORTH;(1953-54).

Dolores and Benedicts marriage lasted for ten years, before they divorced in 1962. They had one son together, who grew up and became a successful business man.

Dolores Moran's notable credits include...

SILVER LODE (1954)

JOHNNY ONE-EYE (1950)

THE MAN I LOVE (1947)

TOO YOUNG TO KNOW (1945)

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)

OLD ACQUAINTANCE (1943)