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A brassy, blue-eyed platinum blonde of the 1930s in the Jean Harlow tradition. Joan was the daughter of Hollywood cinematographer Charles Rosher and appeared as a child in Mary Pickford movies (on which her father worked as cameraman) billed as Dorothy Rosher. She acted in some amateur dramatics as well but seems to have had little professional training. However, The Times in 1929 referred to her "extraordinary speaking and singing voice" at this crucial period when sound pictures began to replace silent cinema. When she was signed by Universal for King of Jazz (1930), she adopted the stage name Joan Marsh. A fairly busy actress alternating leads and second leads throughout the decade and into the mid-40s, she is perhaps best remembered opposite Warner Oland in Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) and as Dimples in Road to Zanzibar (1941). Long under contract to MGM, she was also featured in two Greta Garbo films, Inspiration (1931) and Anna Karenina (1935). In lighter fare her characters tended to have names like Beanie, Toots or Cuddles. It seems, Joan Marsh was also an accomplished dancer, especially adept at the two most popular dances of the era, the Charleston and the Black Bottom. On screen she performed a ballroom routine with Edward J. Nugent in Dancing Feet (1936). On radio, Joan replaced Beatrice Lillie as hostess of the musical variety show Flying Red Horse Tavern in 1936, as well providing the vocals for Lennie Hayton's Orchestra.

Joan's first husband was the screenwriter Charles Belden, her second, Captain John Morrill of Army Air Transport Command.

Her hobbies included horse riding, tennis and golf.

Joan retired from acting after her final picture for Poverty Row outfit Monogram in 1944 and in later years owned a Los Angeles stationary business, Paper Unlimited.

At first I thought that kind of thing was swell, I&#39;ve changed. Perhaps I never really liked dashing from night club to night club. But I know definitely, now, that type of life is not for the real me, the true Joan Marsh. I have decided life holds so much more than just playing. I have found happiness, in the few months I&#39;ve been in New York. (Radio Stars, September 1936)

I made my first picture when I was nine months old. Dad was the cameraman for the picture and Mother had brought me to the studio to visit him. The director saw me and insisted that I be the baby they needed in the picture. So dad gave his consent. (Screenland, September, 1931)

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