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Marjorie Beebe was a talented comedy actress who is unjustly forgotten today. She first made her name in Fox silents in the late 1920s and in 1928 played the title role in "The Farmers Daughter" for which she received critical acclaim. She then joined Mack Sennett just as he was starting to make talkies. She spiced up his two reel sound shorts with her very individual and winning mix of charm, humour and mischief appearing in ten or twelve of these a year until Sennett went bankrupt in 1933. Sadly her career, like Sennett's, never really recovered, but her highly skilled mix of physical slapstick and verbal wisecracking deserves to be remembered.
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