{{short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Marian Swayne | image = The Crimson Cross (1921) - 3.jpg | caption = Edward Langford and Swayne in ''The Crimson Cross'' (1921) | birth_name = Marian Marguerita Swayne | birth_date = July 9, 1891 | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = August 21, 1973 | death_place = New York City, U.S. | resting_place = West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County Pennsylvania USA | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = Marion Swayne | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1911-27 | spouse = Joseph Levering (div. early 1930s) | children = }}
'''Marian Swayne''' (July 9, 1891 - August 21, 1973) was an American stage and film actress.{{Citation needed |date=April 2021}}
==Biography== Swayne began her career with the Solax Studios in 1911 under the tutelage of Alice Guy-Blaché.
In 1917, J. Arthur Nelson, president of Dominion Film Corporation, announced that Swayne had signed a three-year contract to be the leading woman in that company's planned site in British Columbia.<ref>{{cite news |title=Leads in first play of B. C.'s new 'Film City' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74988403/marian-swayne/ |access-date=April 3, 2021 |work=The Province |date=January 13, 1917 |location=Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver |page=16|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She also acted for Gaumont Film Company and Mutual Film.<ref>{{cite news |title=At the Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/126915755/?terms=%22Marion%20Swayne%22&match=1 |access-date=April 3, 2021 |work=The Daily Chronicle |date=July 17, 1916 |location=Illinois, De Kalb |page=6|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Her film career ended in 1924, a few years before the silent film era ended. She performed on the stage as both Marian Swayne and Marion Swayne.<ref>''Silent Film Necrology'' p. 508 2nd edition by Eugene M. Vazzana c.2001</ref> Her work on Broadway included portraying June Phelps in ''Clouds'' (1925).<ref>{{cite web |title=Marian Swayne |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/marian-swayne-61560 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=April 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210403025121/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/marian-swayne-61560 |archive-date=April 3, 2021}}</ref>
She was married to fellow screen player Joseph Levering. Swayne died in New York in August 1973.{{Citation needed |date=April 2021}}
==Selected filmography== *''Falling Leaves'' (1912) *''Brennan of the Moor'' (1913) *''A House Divided'' (1913) as Diana Hutton *''The Little American'' (1917) as Mona *''The Deemster'' (1917) * ''Little Miss Fortune'' (1917) * ''The Road Between'' (1917) * ''The Little Samaritan'' (1917) *''Crimson Cross'' (1921) * ''The Man from Glengarry'' (1922) * ''Counterfeit Love'' (1923)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Marian Swayne}} *{{IMDb name|0842015}} *{{IBDB name|61560}}
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