In a new release from Warner Archive, Marian Marsh and John Barrymore follow up their partnership in Svengali (1931) with The Mad Genius (1931). This unusual drama is not quite as bizarre as the previous film, but is just as full of pre-code antics and Barrymore eccentricities.
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Marian Marsh was one in a line of cute and almost child-like
Precode actresses – think Alice White and more broadly Clara Bow. But it you
watch her films it is obvious that she is something special. Marian was born Violet Krauth on October 17,
1913 in Trinidad. The family of four childre read more
On her early life:
"My
father and mother had started a chocolate candy factory in Trinidad. They did
all the work themselves at first. From nothing, they built up a good trade.
When World War I knocked the bottom out of his market, my father moved us to
Boston. There he became vice president of a v read more
Marian Marsh was one in a line of cute and almost child-like
Precode actresses – think Alice White and more broadly Clara Bow. But it you
watch her films it is obvious that she is something special. Marian was born Violet Krauth on October 17,
1913 in Trinidad. The family of four childre read more
On her early life:
"My
father and mother had started a chocolate candy factory in Trinidad. They did
all the work themselves at first. From nothing, they built up a good trade.
When World War I knocked the bottom out of his market, my father moved us to
Boston. There he became vice president of a v read more
