Marion Aye

After moving to New York City, she worked at Bothwell Browne's Revue and became a Mack Sennett bathing beauty. Marion appeared in more than a dozen films, including The Hick, Montana Bill, and The Weak-End Party with Stan Laurel. She also starred in a series of Cactus Westerns with Bob Reeves. In 1921 she made headlines as the first star to sign a contract with a morality clause. The following year, she was chosen as one of the first Wampas baby stars, alongside Colleen Moore and Lois Wilson.

Her second marriage, to press agent Harry Wilson, ended in 1924. That year she appeared in a successful stage production of White Collars. Despite early promise, her career never fully took off. Her last movie role was in the 1930 drama Up The River. She continued working on stage and radio. In 1935, she attempted suicide. She married actor Robert Forester in 1936; the couple, who never had children, moved in with her parents. After her mother Eloise died in 1951, she was inconsolable. Her final audition for a television role ended in devastation. On July 10, 1951, she checked into a Culver City motel with her husband and swallowed a handful of bi-chloride of mercury tablets. Before passing out, she said, "I dropped one of the tablets on the floor and I am afraid the dog will get it." She spent eleven days unconscious and died on July 21, 1951, at age forty-eight. Her husband said she had a "chronic illness" and that he never took her threats seriously, and her father believed she suffered from uremic poisoning. She was buried next to her mother at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California.