Natalie Moorhead

Natalie Moorhead, July 27, 1901, Pittsburgh, PA-October 6, 1992, Montecito, CA. She had training with a stock company in Trenton, NJ before starting in the new talking films in 1929 making her debut in "Thru Different Eyes" at Fox with Mary Duncan and Warner Baxter and Sylvia Sidney in a supporting role. The four times married actress made 72 films between 1929 and her retirement in 1940. She was married to Raymond H. Phillips from 1928-1930, Alan Crosland from 1930-1935, Robert James Dunham from 1942 to his death in 1948, and to Juan Torena from 1957 to his death in 1983.

Moorhead was cast in strong supporting roles such as in "The Benson Murder Case" 1930 with William Powell, with Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell in "Illicit." 1931, with Jean Harlow and Walter Byron in "Three Wise Girls" 1931, and with Buster Keaton at MGM in "Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath" 1931. She also had parts in Joan Crawford's "Dance, Fools, Dance" 1931, Bebe Daniels' "My Past" 1931, John Gilbert's "The Phantom of Paris" 1931, she was with H.B. Warner, Walter Byron, and Bette Davis in "The Menace" 1932, with Warren William and Constance Cummings in "The Mind Reader" 1933, and she was Julia Wolf in the 1934 hit, "The Thin Man" with William Powell and Myrna Loy, with Maureen O'Sullivan and Minna Gombell.

After the Code, she appeared in many films sometimes credited and sometimes uncredited. There were a lot of B Pictures with an occasional A film tossed in such as her uncredited bit as the "Woman at Modiste Salon" in "The Women" 1939. Peggy Shannon and Barbara Pepper were also uncredited actresses in that huge 1939 hit.