Marlowe, the indigene of St. Cloud, Minnesota, was a prolific actress in silent films during the 1920s, appearing in films opposite John Barrymore and Rin Tin Tin. Marlowe didn't produce an real life transport all over to talking pictures, & by 1930 was starting to drift away from acting.

By risk, she happened to meet My Gang director Robert F. McGowan one day in a Los Angeles, California department store. He was shopping for an actress to portray a school teacher in the series, & fallowing producer Hal Roach suggested that Marlowe, the brunet, get into a light-haired wig to match Jackie Cooper's hair, she got a a portion.

A triplet My Gang films which pair Marlowe sustaining Jackie Cooper's character, ''Teacher's Pet (1930), School's Out (1930), and Love Business'' (1931), are among a trey best known films in the series. She as well has the little role within 1931's Little Daddy. Besides her act around My Gang, Marlowe likewise appeared within fellow Roach stars Laurel and Hardy's first feature, Pardon U.s..

Fallowing Cooper left My Gang around 1931 to appear around MGM features, Marlowe's Miss Crabtree character was utilized inside lone ii additional shorts, 1931's Shiver Our Timbers & 1932's ''Readin' and Writin''.

Within 1933, Marlowe married Hollywood businessman Rodney Sprigg, and she retired from either motion pictures to be the lady of the house. Around her late years, she suffered from either Parkinson's disease, dying from complications caused by it on March 10, 1984. She was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.