| A pretty and talented actress, Marjorie Reynolds could also sing and dance. She played kid roles during the 1920s and bit parts as a teenager (including a bit in GONE WITH THE WIND). She was the female lead in a dozen or so westerns in the late 1930s - early 1940s with cowboy heroes Bob Baker, George O'Brien, Tim Holt, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter and Ken Maynard. She also portrayed "Betty Lou" in the series of Tailspin Tommy airplane adventures at Monogram in 1939 - 1940. And she was "Bobby Logan" in the Boris Karloff / MR. WONG mystery series. And Reynolds was one of the Revolutionary War ghosts in THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES (Universal, 1946), an Abbott and Costello comedy. She is probably best remembered as the leading lady in the Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire HOLIDAY INN (Paramount, 1942), and as William Bendix's wife 'Peg' in the LIFE OF RILEY TV series which ran from 1953 - 1958. You may want to go to the In Search Of ... page on the Old Corral. There is a record for Marjorie Reynolds at the California Death Index - her birth year and state are 8/12/1917 and Idaho, mother's maiden name of Jennings, fathers last name was Goodspeed, and she passed away on 2/1/1997. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) lists her name as Marjorie Haffen and the same birth and death years. She was married and divorced from casting director Jack Reynolds and they had a daughter. She later married actor and film editor John Haffen (John Whitney) and they resided in Beverly Hills and owned an apartment building. Haffen passed away in 1985, and both the California Death Index and SSDI have records on him. |  |  Above, Marjorie Reynolds (as a brunette) in one of her films with Universal cowboy hero Bob Baker. |
 (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above - John Trent and Reynolds in a trade ad for Monogram's Tailspin Tommy series of airplane adventures. Billed third was Milburn Stone, better known as "Doc Adams" on TV's GUNSMOKE.  (Courtesy of Tom Bupp) L-to-R are Tommy Bupp, Marjorie Reynolds, and Tex Ritter, and in the background are Tex's sidekicks, the mustached Snub Pollard and Horace Murphy. From TEX RIDES WITH THE BOY SCOUTS (Grand National, 1937), and this scene occurs at the finale.  Courtesy of Minard Coons) Above are Carlyle Moore Jr., Bob Baker, and Marjorie Reynolds in Baker's WESTERN TRAILS (Universal, 1938), a remake of John Wayne's DAWN RIDER (Lone Star/Monogram, 1935), and one of Baker's weakest films. She was leading lady in four of Baker's oaters: WESTERN TRAILS (Universal, 1938), BLACK BANDIT (Universal, 1938), GUILTY TRAILS (Universal, 1938) and THE PHANTOM STAGE (Universal, 1939).  (Courtesy of Minard Coons) Above are stage driver John Ridgely and guard Forrest Taylor, and inside the coach are Bob Baker and Marjorie Reynolds. Scene from Baker's WESTERN TRAILS (Universal, 1938).
Marjorie Reynolds: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0721851/ Find A Grave reports that 79 year old Marjorie Reynolds passed on February 1, 1997 in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County, California, and was cremated: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6695479/marjorie-reynolds Photo of Reynolds with the Jack Benny USO tour in 1952: https://olpl.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/421446CF-0779-4F5F-B53C-282486896060 Jerry Murbach's Doctor Macro website has several images of Reynolds: http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Star%20Pages/Reynolds,%20Marjorie.htm |
Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has information on Marjorie Reynolds, and husbands Jack Reynolds and John Haffen (who used the screen name "John Whitney" during his acting days):