Marion ''Mary'' Ravenwood (born 1909) was an American journalist and bartender, daughter of the archeologist Abner Ravenwood and the wife of World War II Royal Air Force veteran Colin Williams, and later, Henry Jones Jr. with whom she had a son, Mutt Williams or Henry Jones III.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1909, the daughter of the famous archaeologist and treasure-hunter Abner Ravenwood. As a girl, Marion was never particularly interested in her father's work. She had a relationship with Dr. Henry Jones Jr. during the 1920s, when a dashing Jones was asked to help his former mentor track down the Ark of the Covenant. When he learned the truth, Abner was so disgusted that he left his job as professor in the University of Chicago and immigrated to Nepal.
Search for the Ark of the Covenant[]
His father Abner died in 1935. Jones and Marion wouldn't see each other again until 1936. When Abner disappeared in early 1935, Marion assumed the worst. She was contemplating a return to the States, when suddenly, after ten years, Henry Jones reappeared on her doorstep. She did not extend a warm welcome, instead she gave him a punch in the face but reluctantly agreed to part with one of her father's artifacts—a medallion referred to as the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra—for the sum of three thousand dollars.
Unfortunately, Indy was not the only one with designs on the medallion. A Nazi officer named Arnold Ernst Toht confronted Marion and Indy at The Raven, and in the ensuing struggle, the tavern burned down. As Indy's ambitions had effectively robbed Marion of her livelihood, she felt justified declaring herself Indy's partner.
Together, the pair traveled to Cairo, Egypt. There, Jones and Ravenwood met up with the archaeologist's old friend, Sallah el-Kahir. While shopping in the city marketplace, Marion and Jones were ambushed by a band of local thugs coordinated by German agents. Marion was subsequently kidnapped by the thugs and taken away, loudly screaming and calling out for Jones to help her. After quickly dealing with a menacing Arab Swordsman, Indy managed to track down his captured partner, who was being loaded onto a Nazi troop truck full of explosives. Using his pistol, the archaeologist successfully disabled the vehicle and killed the driver, an action that caused the truck to crash and explode.
Jones believed she was dead until, by a fortunate accident, he stumbled upon her bound and gagged in one of the Nazi tents and realized that the baskets must have been switched. To Marion's chagrin, he decided to leave her, reasoning that an escape would draw too much unwanted attention and regagged her. The perceived betrayal did not affect Marion's refusal to cooperate with her captors, however. Belloq's advances resulted only in an aborted escape attempt, and Toht's interrogation was likewise met with uncommon resistance.
After recovering the Ark, Toht threw Marion into the Well of Souls to die with Indy. The intrepid pair managed to escape and Indy intercepted the Ark en route to Cairo. Indy and Marion then fled aboard a merchant steamer, the Bantu Wind, but the Nazis persevered. Jones and Marion eascaped and returned to US. Afterward, she accompanied Indy back to the U.S., and comforted him when the government cut short his research into the Ark's powers.
Last years[]
In 1937, she had a son (whose father was Jones) and married to Colin Williams, a British pilot who fought and died in WW2. In 1957, she married Jones in Princeton, New Jersey. The two were married for twelve years before Mutt's death in the Vietnam War drove them apart again and nearly ended their marriage. However, Indiana and Marion eventually reconciled.
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