Marian Marsh Henderson, a Hollywood leading lady who played Trilby opposite John Barrymore’s Svengali in the early 1930s and later founded the nonprofit Desert Beautiful organization in Palm Desert, ...

Marian Marsh, a Hollywood actress of the 1930s and early ’40s best-known for starring opposite John Barrymore in the 1931 melodrama “Svengali,” died Thursday at her home in Palm Desert, Calif. She was ...

Violet Ethelred Krauth (Marian Marsh), actress: born 17 October 1913; married 1938 Albert Scott (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved), 1960 Clifford Henderson (died 1984); died Palm Desert, ...

Before John Barrymore accepted the title role in Svengali (1931), a film version of George du Maurier's 1894 novel, he wrote to the producers: "The female lead (Trilby) must have exactly the right ...