Name: Rose-Marie DEMELY
Pseudo: Sacha0606
Member of several creative teams
Kit: All Things Spring Kit made by Linda Cumberland
Marie Prevost (1898-1937)was a Canadian-born actress of the early days of cinema. During her twenty year career, she made 121 silent and talking pictures.She was still a child her family moved to Los Angeles.While working as a secretary,she applied for and obtained an acting job at the Hollywood studio owned by Mack Sennett.She worked in several films for Sennett's studio until 1921 when she signed with Universal.At Universal, Irving Thalberg took an interest in Provost decided to make her a star.After,Jack Warner signed her to a two year contract at $1500 a week at Warner Bros.in 1922.Prevost's mother was killed in an automobile accident in 1926.Prevost began drinking heavily and developed an addiction to alcohol.Prevost's depression caused her to binge on food resulting in significant weight gain.Her financial income declined and her growing dependency on alcohol added to her weight problems.On 1937,she died from heart failure brought on by acute alcoholism and malnutrition.