Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film and stage actress. Although her film career as a leading character was brief, she was one of the most popular child actors in cinema history. In her later career, she appeared on stage and in supporting film roles. She was born Angela Maxine O'Brien; (she later changed her name to Margaret following the success of the film Journey for Margaret, in which she played the title role). Her father Lawrence O'Brien, a circus performer, died before she was born.[1]; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry. She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in Journey for Margaret (1942), O'Brien won wide praise for her convincing acting style. By 1943, she was considered a big enough star to have a cameo appearance in the all-star military show finale of Thousands Cheer. She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre (1944). Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland. O'Brien had by this time added singing and dancing to her achievements and was rewarded with an Academy Juvenile Award the following year as the "outstanding child actress of 1944." Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and the first sound version of The Secret Garden (1949), but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles. A 1946 Looney Tunes short, Book Revue, placed a caricature of O'Brien in the role of Little Red Riding Hood. Margaret later shed her child star image in 1958 by appearing on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption "The Girl's Grown", and was a mystery guest on the TV panel show What's My Line?. O'Brien's acting roles as an adult have been few and far between, mostly in small independent films. However, she does do occasional interviews, mostly for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. She played the role of Betsy Stauffer, a small town nurse, in "The Incident of the Town in Terror" on television's Rawhide. Another rare television outing was as a guest star on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. in the early 1970s, reuniting Margaret with her Journey For Margaret and The Canterville Ghost co-star Robert Young. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret O'Brien, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: San Diego, California, USA, 1937-01-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1941	Babes on Broadway	Maxine (uncredited)	64
2	1942	Journey for Margaret	Margaret	66
3	1943	You, John Jones!	Daughter	60
4	1943	Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case	Margaret	55
5	1943	Thousands Cheer	Customer in Red Skelton Skit	64
6	1943	Madame Curie	Irene Curie - Age 5	71
7	1943	Lost Angel	Alpha	75
8	1943	Jane Eyre	Adele Varens	69
9	1944	Twenty Years After	(archive footage)	60
10	1944	The Canterville Ghost	Lady Jessica de Canterville	67
11	1944	Meet Me in St. Louis	'Tootie' Smith	70
12	1944	Music for Millions	Mike	60
13	1945	Our Vines Have Tender Grapes	Selma Jacobson	69
14	1946	Bad Bascomb	Emmy	62
15	1946	Three Wise Fools	Sheila O'Monahan	50
16	1947	The Unfinished Dance	'Meg' Merlin	60
17	1948	Tenth Avenue Angel	Flavia Mills	61
18	1948	Big City	Midge	72
19	1949	Little Women	Beth	74
20	1949	The Secret Garden	Mary Lennox	71
21	1951	Her First Romance	Betty Foster	20
22	1952	The Eyes of Two People	Catherine McDermott	0
23	1956	Glory	Clarabel Tilbee	50
24	1960	Heller in Pink Tights	Della Southby	57
25	1968	Split Second to an Epitaph	Louise Prescott	0
26	1971	The Pledge of Allegiance	Narrator	0
27	1971	Anabelle Lee		0
28	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli	Self (archive footage)	0
29	1974	Death in Space	Pam Rhodes	0
30	1974	That's Entertainment!	(archive footage)	73
31	1981	Amy	Hazel Johnson	72
32	1982	Hollywood’s Children	Self (archive footage)	0
33	1982	Showbiz Goes to War	(archive footage)	100
34	1994	Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic	Self	0
35	1994	The Story of Lassie	Self	0
36	1996	Sunset After Dark	Betty Corman	20
37	1998	Creaturealm: From the Dead	Herself	10
38	1998	Hollywood Mortuary	Herself	10
39	1998	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's	Self	73
40	2002	Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star	Self - Actress	66
41	2002	The Craven Cove Murders	Fan	60
42	2004	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies	Self	80
43	2010	Frankenstein Rising		95
44	2011	A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!	Self - Interviewee	81
45	2015	Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity	Self	0
46	2018	Impact Event	Amanda	70
47	2018	This Is Our Christmas	Mrs. Foxworth	20
48		Love Is in Bel Air	Vivienne	0
49	2017	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Ms. Stevenson	42
50	2017	Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!	Bridgette's Grandmother	49
51	2018	Prepper's Grove	Gigi	0
52	2023	Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Kraft Television Theatre		75
2	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
3	1948	Studio One		50
4	1948	Studio One	Julie Denton	50
5	1948	Studio One	Jenny Walker	50
6	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Ginny	56
7	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
8	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Margaret	63
9	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Laura	63
10	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Elaine	63
11	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Self - Intermission Guest	63
12	1953	General Electric Theater	Sarah Trask	63
13	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
14	1954	Climax!	Kathy Fathian	33
15	1954	Climax!	Chip	33
16	1954	Climax!	Angie Hawley	33
17	1955	Hollywood Preview	Self	60
18	1955	Matinee Theater		50
19	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self - Singer	56
20	1957	Wagon Train	Julie Revere	63
21	1957	Perry Mason	Virginia Trent	77
22	1959	Rawhide	Betsy Stauffer	72
23	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Jean	63
24	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Phyllis Willoughby	57
25	1960	The Aquanauts	Ellen Marstand	55
26	1961	Dr. Kildare	Nurse Lori Palmer	55
27	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
28	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
29	1962	Combat!	Marianne Fraisnet	77
30	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Anne Lipscott	57
31	1967	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour	Self	69
32	1967	Ironside	Louise Prescott	68
33	1968	Adam-12	Mrs. Pendleton	70
34	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Neva Phillips	65
35	1969	Love, American Style		61
36	1977	Testimony of Two Men	Flora Bumpstead Eaton	50
37	1982	Hotel	Martha Connelly	68
38	1984	Tales from the Darkside	Mildred Webster	72
39	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Jane	75
40	1989	The New Lassie		70
41	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81

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