 (April 24, 1908 - February 16, 2000)
Born Marceline Newlin in Colorado Springs, Colorado and raised in
Salt Lake City, Utah, she was the younger sister of film actress
Alice Day.
Marceline Day began her film career after her sister, Alice Day,
became a featured actress as a Mack Sennett "Bathing Beauty" in one
and two-reel comedies for Keystone Studios. Day made her first film
appearance alongside her sister in the 1924 Sennett comedy Picking
Peaches before being cast in a string of comedy shorts opposite
actor Harry Langdon and a stint in early Hollywood Westerns opposite
such silent film cowboy stars as Hoot Gibson, Art Acord and Jack
Hoxie. Gradually, Day began appearing in more dramatic roles
opposite such esteemed actors of the era as Lionel Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Norman Kerry, Ramón Novarro, Buster Keaton, and Lon
Chaney.
In 1926, Marceline Day was named one of the thirteen WAMPAS Baby
Stars, a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association
of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored
thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the
threshold of movie stardom. Other notable recipients that year were
Joan Crawford, Mary Astor, Janet Gaynor and Dolores del Río. The
publicity from the campaign added to Day's popularity and in 1927
she appeared opposite John Barrymore in the romantic adventure The
Beloved Rogue.
Marceline Day is probably best recalled for her appearances in the
1928 comedy The Cameraman opposite Buster Keaton, and the 1929 drama
The Jazz Age opposite Douglas Fairbanks. By the late 1920s, Day's
career had eclipsed her sister Alice's, who herself was quite a
publicly popular actress. The two would appear together onscreen
again in the 1929 musical The Show of Shows. |
