Vera Merle Marsh (1905-84) was a vaudeville performer who hit the big time in 1932 when understudying Adele Astaire in The Band Wagon (1931). Adele Astaire left the show when she got married, leaving Vera Marsh (as she was then known) to dance with brother Fred in the remaining performances. Marshe also performed regularly in a comedy duo with Sterling Holloway.
Marshe’s screen career was lengthy, though not auspicious. One of her few leads was opposite Eddie Foy Jr in Nearly Naked (1933), a comedy set in a nudist camp.
A few years earlier she had made a brief appearance in Good News and was ‘Call of the Wild’ in Madam Satan.
