She took her stage name from Marjorie Daw, a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

[2] Daw began acting as a teen to support her younger brother and herself after the death of their parents.

[3] Daw married director Alfred Edward Sutherland on April 20, 1923, in Beverly Hills;[1] They had no children, and they divorced in 1925.

On January 23, 1929, Daw married Myron Selznick in New York City.

[4][3] Daw died on March 18, 1979, in Huntington Beach, California, aged 77.