Judith Allen (born Marie Elliott, February 8, 1911 – October 5, 1996) was an American actress.
Early years
Allen was born Marie Elliot in New York City, and she grew up in
Belmont, Massachusetts
Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is a western suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, United States; and is part of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, the town's population stood at 27,29 ...
. She attended
Leland Powers School in Boston
and gained acting experience with a
stock theater company.
Using the name Mari Colman, Allen worked as a commercial model in New York for the Walter Thornton Modeling Agency. That was where she was selected for a leading role in the film ''
This Day and Age'' (1933).
[ The role led to her name change to Judith Allen. Robert S. Birchard wrote about the process in his book, ''Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood'', comparing it to "a comic sequence in David O. Selznick's 1937 production of ''A Star Is Born''."][
]
Personal life
Allen married wrestler Gus Sonnenberg
Gustave Adolph Sonnenberg (March 6, 1898 – September 9, 1944) was an American football player and professional wrestler of German descent and World Heavyweight Champion. As a wrestler, he was National Wrestling Association world heavyweight ch ...
in 1931 in New York City. They divorced September 23, 1933, in Reno, Nevada. She married actor/boxer/singer Jack Doyle April 28, 1935, in Agua Caliente, Mexico and filed for divorce or annulment of the marriage, but also was quoted saying she hoped for reconciliation, and filed a $2 million suit against the Dodge heiress she said was trying to steal him away.
Filmography
* '' The Thundering Herd'' (1933)
* '' Too Much Harmony'' (1933)
* '' This Day and Age'' (1933)
* '' Hell and High Water'' (1933)
* '' Dancing Man'' (1934)
* '' She Loves Me Not'' (1934)
* '' Young and Beautiful'' (1934)
* '' Men of the Night'' (1934)
* ''Night Alarm
''Night Alarm'' is a 1934 American drama film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Bruce Cabot as a down on his luck reporter, Hal Ashby, who tries to make a name for himself by investigating a series of bizarre arson attacks. The film, ...
'' (1934)
* '' The Witching Hour'' (1934)
* ''Marrying Widows
''Marrying Widows'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Judith Allen, Johnny Mack Brown and Minna Gombell.Parish & Pitts, p. 286
Synopsis
After the death of her sewing machine tycoon husband, a young w ...
'' (1934)
* '' The Old Fashioned Way'' (1934)
* '' Bright Eyes'' (1934)
* ''Behind the Green Lights
''Behind the Green Lights'' is a 1935 American crime film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Norman Foster, Judith Allen and Sidney Blackmer.Goble p.685
Partial cast
* Norman Foster as Detective Lt. Dave Britten
* Judith Allen as Mary ...
'' (1935)
* '' The Healer'' (1935)
* ''Reckless Roads
''Reckless Roads'' is a 1935 American drama film directed by Burt P. Lynwood and starring Judith Allen, Regis Toomey and Lloyd Hughes.Palmer p.462
Cast
* Judith Allen as Edith Adams
* Regis Toomey as Speed Demming
* Lloyd Hughes as Fred ...
'' (1935)
* '' Burning Gold'' (1936)
* ''Beware of Ladies
''Beware of Ladies'' is a 1936 American crime film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Donald Cook, Judith Allen and George Meeker.Gates p.95 A female newspaper reporter is sent by her editor to cover a political contest between a naïve n ...
'' (1936)
* '' Git Along Little Dogies'' (1937)
* '' It Happened Out West'' (1937)
* '' Boots and Saddles'' (1937)
* ''Bill Cracks Down
''Bill Cracks Down'' is a 1937 American action romantic drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Grant Withers, Beatrice Roberts, Ranny Weeks and Judith Allen. It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. The film was released u ...
'' (1937)
* '' Navy Spy'' (1937)
* ''Texas Trail
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'' (1937)
* '' Telephone Operator'' (1937)
* ''Tough Kid
''Tough Kid'' is a 1938 American crime film directed by Howard Bretherton and written by Wellyn Totman. The film stars Frankie Darro, Dick Purcell, Judith Allen, Lillian Elliott, Don Rowan and William Ruhl. The film was released on December 28 ...
'' (1938)
* ''The Port of Missing Girls
''The Port of Missing Girls'' is a 1928 silent film directed by Irving Cummings. It stars Barbara Bedford and Hedda Hopper, making it one of the rare occasions Hopper actually starred in a film. This film is preserved in the Library of Congre ...
'' (1938)
* ''Four Girls in White
''Four Girls in White'' is a 1939 drama film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, starring Florence Rice and Una Merkel. It follows the mostly comical exploits of four nursing students enrolled in a three-year training course.
Plot
Student nurses at a la ...
'' (1939)
* '' The Women'' (1939)
* '' Framed'' (1940)
* ''Sky Murder
''Sky Murder'' is a 1940 detective film starring Walter Pidgeon as detective Nick Carter in his third and final outing for MGM as Nick Carter. The film was part of a trilogy based on original screen stories starring the popular literary series c ...
'' (1940)
* ''I Shot Billy the Kid
''I Shot Billy the Kid'' is a 1950 American Western (genre), Western film directed by William Berke for Lippert Pictures.
Robert L. Lippert had enjoyed tremendous success with ''I Shot Jesse James'' (1948) leading to this follow up with ''I Sho ...
'' (1950)
* ''Train to Tombstone
''Train to Tombstone'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Berke and starring Don "Red" Barry, Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Tom Neal and Judith Allen.Lana Leads Precarious 'Own' Life
P K S. Los Angeles Times 16 Sep 1950: 8.
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'' (1950)
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1911 births
1996 deaths
American film actresses
Actresses from New York City
People from Yucca Valley, California
20th-century American actresses
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