Educated at the University of Kentucky and the University of Indiana, Marjorie Weaver was a band singer, model, and stock-company actress before making her first film appearance in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round. From 1936 to 1942, Weaver was under contract to 20th Century-Fox, where she played any number of nice but no-nonsense leading ladies. Her co-stars during this period ranged from Henry Fonda to the Ritz Brothers. Her most notable assignment was the role of Mary Todd in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). After serving as Lloyd Nolan's vis-a-vis in the first two "Michael Shayne" B mysteries, Marjorie Weaver free-lanced; she made her last starring appearance at Republic in 1945, re-emerging seven years later to play an unbilled supporting role in Fox's We're Not Married.
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