{{Short description|American actress (1911–1996)}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{For|the scientist|Judi Allen}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Judith Allen | image = Judith Allen in Port of Missing Girls (1938).jpg | image_size = | caption = Allen in ''The Port of Missing Girls'' (1938) | birth_name = Marie Elliott | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|02|08|mf=yes}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|10|5|1911|02|08|mf=yes}} | death_place = Yucca Valley, California, U.S. | other_names = Mari Colman | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1933–1952 | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{marriage|Gus Sonnenberg|1931|1933|end=div}}<ref name=mj>{{cite news| title=Sued for Divorce| url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-judith-allen-files-divorce-a/177403849/| access-date=July 24, 2025| newspaper=Brooklyn Times-Union| page=1| date=September 21, 1933}}</ref> * {{marriage|Jack Doyle|1935|1938|end=div}}<ref name="t">{{cite news| title=Movita Castaneda, actress - obituary| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11420588/Movita-Castaneda-actress-obituary.html| accessdate=26 July 2016| newspaper=The Telegraph| location=London| date=February 18, 2015| url-access=subscription}}</ref> * {{marriage|Rudolph Field|1941|1945|end=annulled}}<ref name="sjn">{{cite news| title=Judith Allen Asks Marriage Annulment| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19450425&id=h0siAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GqQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4921,2018370&hl=en| newspaper=San Jose News| agency=International News Service| date=April 25, 1945| page=6| access-date=December 27, 2021}}</ref> }} }}
'''Judith Allen''' (born '''Marie Elliott'''; February 8, 1911 – October 5, 1996) was an American actress.<ref>Bradley p. 347.</ref>
==Early years== Allen was born '''Marie Elliott''' in New York City, and she grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts. She attended Leland Powers School in Boston<ref name=fga>{{cite journal| last1=Wagner| first1=Laura| title=Judith Allen: Freelancing on Poverty Row| journal=Films of the Golden Age| date=Summer 2015| issue=81| pages=61–63}}</ref> and gained acting experience with a stock theater company.<ref name="hs">{{cite news| last1=Harrison| first1=Paul| title=Is $2,000,000 Worth of Love Enough?| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6015550/hope_star/| newspaper=Hope Star| agency=Newspaper Enterprise Association| date=October 13, 1937| page=5| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=July 26, 2016}}</ref> [[File:Press photo of James Dunn and Judith Allen in Bright Eyes (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|250px|Allen and James Dunn in ''Bright Eyes'' (1934)]] [[File:Judith Allen-Milburn Stone in Port of Missing Girls.jpg|thumb|250px|Allen and Milburn Stone in ''The Port of Missing Girls'' (1938)]]
Using the name '''Mari Colman''', Allen worked as a commercial model in New York for the Walter Thornton Modeling Agency.<ref>{{cite news| date=August 12, 1944| title=Model' Girls Are Always Very Much In Demand| page=55| newspaper=The Brooklyn Eagle}}</ref> That was where she was selected for a leading role in the film ''This Day and Age'' (1933).<ref name=hs/> The role led to her name change to '''Judith Allen'''. Robert S. Birchard wrote about the process in his book, ''Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood'', comparing it to "a comic sequence in David O. Selznick's 1937 production of ''A Star Is Born''."<ref name=cb>{{cite book| last1=Birchard| first1=Robert S.| title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood| date=June 29, 2004| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| isbn=978-0-8131-3829-9| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&dq=%22Judith+Allen%22&pg=PT143| accessdate=27 July 2016}}</ref>
Birchard related: "Mari Colman was subjected to the same treatment as DeMille, and Paramount tested long lists of potential screen names.... Somehow, the name ultimately bestowed upon her was Judith Allen."<ref name=cb/>
==Personal life== Allen married wrestler Gus Sonnenberg in 1931 in New York City. They divorced on September 23, 1933, in Reno, Nevada.<ref>{{cite news| title=Gus Sonnenberg and Actress Are Divorced| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6013693/the_winnipeg_tribune/| newspaper=The Winnipeg Tribune| date=September 25, 1933| page=13| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=July 26, 2016}}</ref> She married Irish boxer, professional wrestler, actor, and a tenor Jack Doyle on April 28, 1935, in Agua Caliente, Mexico. She filed for divorce or annulment of the marriage but also was quoted saying she hoped for reconciliation. She filed a $2 million suit against the Dodge heiress she said was trying to steal Doyle away. <ref name="hs">{{cite news| last1=Harrison| first1=Paul| title=Is $2,000,000 Worth of Love Enough?| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6015550/hope_star/| newspaper=Hope Star| agency=Newspaper Enterprise Association| date=October 13, 1937| page=5| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=July 26, 2016}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news| title=Actress Files Annulment Suit| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6013546/the_salt_lake_tribune| newspaper=Salt Lake Tribune| agency=International News Service| date=March 16, 1937| page=14| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=December 27, 2021}}</ref>
==Filmography== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''The Thundering Herd'' (1933) * ''Too Much Harmony'' (1933) * ''This Day and Age'' (1933) * ''Hell and High Water'' (1933) * ''Dancing Man'' (1934) * ''She Loves Me Not'' (1934) * ''Young and Beautiful'' (1934) * ''Men of the Night'' (1934) * ''Night Alarm'' (1934) * ''The Witching Hour'' (1934) * ''Marrying Widows'' (1934) * ''The Old Fashioned Way'' (1934) * ''Bright Eyes'' (1934) * ''Behind the Green Lights'' (1935) * ''The Healer'' (1935) * ''Reckless Roads'' (1935) * ''Burning Gold'' (1936) * ''Beware of Ladies'' (1936) * ''Git Along Little Dogies'' (1937) * ''It Happened Out West'' (1937) * ''Boots and Saddles'' (1937) * ''Bill Cracks Down'' (1937) * ''Navy Spy'' (1937) * ''Texas Trail'' (1937) * ''Telephone Operator'' (1937) * ''Tough Kid'' (1938) * ''The Port of Missing Girls'' (1938) * ''Four Girls in White'' (1939) * ''The Women'' (1939) * ''Framed'' (1940) * ''Sky Murder'' (1940) * ''I Shot Billy the Kid'' (1950) * ''Train to Tombstone'' (1950) {{col div end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * {{cite book| first=Edwin M.| last=Bradley| title=The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932| publisher=McFarland| location=Jefferson, NC| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&q=judith+allen| date=August 11, 2004| isbn=978-0-7864-2029-2}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0020703}}
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