Marjorie rambeau accident

This is part of a series showing what the silent stars featured in the Kromo Gravure Trading Card set were up to at the precise moment in time covered in a Motion Picture Magazine article, Stars Who Have Vanished by Jack Grant.

Marjorie rambeau accident: Her injuries were so severe

Stars Who Have Vanished, Famous stage star and screen character actress announced her retirement from both stage and screen when she married millionaire Francis A. Gudger on November 10, What I Dug Up: And a brief retirement it must have been as Rambeau was back on screen in three features as soon as and would continue to be a highly successful character actress for nearly 25 more years despite her share of personal tragedy.

It looked like it could all be over when in she was involved a terrible car accident which tragically killed her sister and left Rambeau in a wheelchair with her legs crushed and doctors telling her she might never walk again. Two operations would leave one of her legs shorter than the other though she would walk again with crutches and she would return to the screen again as soon as In an article Rambeau penned for a religious column in she said that the pain she suffered as a result of the accident had left her dependent on drugs and that despite her on-screen success she withdrew and became a virtual recluse.

It was in conversation with Evans that Rambeau was compelled to join the interdenominational Hollywood Christian Group which gave her the strength to get through her next film role in A Man Called Peter She was active for the next two years on screen, but had all but retired by the time of this article by which time she and her husband had moved to Palm Springs.

Her obituary does say she appeared on film in the documentary Palm Springs Story where she guided viewers through life in the resort town. Her husband passed away at age 89 in ; Rambeau died in , age Previous Entry: Arline Pretty.