Marion Aye

Marion tried to make a comeback in 1951 and auditioned for a role on television. When she didn't get the part she became despondent.

She married actor Robert Forester in 1936.

Unfortunately she suffered from depression and in 1935 she attempted suicide.

Her last movie role was in the 1930 drama Up The River. Marion continued to work on the stage and the radio.

Her second marriage, to press agent Harry Wilson, ended in 1924. That same year Marion appeared in a successful stage production of White Collars. She seemed destined for stardom but her career never took off.

In 1922 she became the first actress to sign a contract with a morality clause.

In 1921 she made headlines when she became the first star to sign a contract with a morality clause in it. The following year was chosen to be one of the first Wampas baby stars along with Colleen Moore and Lois Wilson.

Made a public appearance at the Duquesne Theater in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to accompany a screening of Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919). It was reported to be the first public appearance of the Mack Sennet Bathing Beauties outside Los Angeles. Other Bathing Beauties who appeared at this event were Irene Hylie, "Mickey" Burton, Elsie Ware, Eve Worth, Eleanor Bell, Jean Charleson, Dollie Mirth, Molly McGowan and Jane Allen (mid-September, 1919).

Maryon became a widow at the young age of fifteen. She married her first husband, Sherman Plaskett, in March of 1918. He died just seven months later after contracting influenza. Sherman was a camera operator at Balboa Studios in Long Beach where Maryon got her start as an actress.

Marion Aye was born Maryon Eloise Aye on April 5, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a lawyer who moved the family to California. She was discovered by Fatty Arbuckle and started her career at Balboa Studios. When she was fifteen Marion lied about her age to elope with cameraman Sherman Plaskett. Sadly he passed away just a year later. 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.