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
Credits
- 2023 · Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story as Herself
- 2018 · This Is Our Christmas as Mrs. Foxworth
- 2018 · Prepper's Grove as Gigi
- 2018 · Impact Event as Amanda
- 2017 · Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! as Bridgette's Grandmother
- 2017 · Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Ms. Stevenson
- 2015 · Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity as Self
- 2011 · A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! as Self - Interviewee
- 2010 · Frankenstein Rising as
- 2002 · The Craven Cove Murders as Fan
- 2002 · Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star as Self - Actress
- 1998 · Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's as Self
- 1998 · Hollywood Mortuary as Herself
- 1998 · Creaturealm: From the Dead as Herself
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1996 · Sunset After Dark as Betty Corman
- 1994 · The Story of Lassie as Self
- 1994 · Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic as Self
- 1989 · The New Lassie as
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Jane
- 1984 · Tales from the Darkside as Mildred Webster
- 1982 · Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- 1982 · Hotel as Martha Connelly
- 1982 · Hollywood’s Children as Self (archive footage)
- 1981 · Amy as Hazel Johnson
- 1974 · That's Entertainment! as (archive footage)
- 1974 · Death in Space as Pam Rhodes
- 1973 · The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Self (archive footage)
- 1971 · Anabelle Lee as
- 1971 · The Pledge of Allegiance as Narrator
- 1969 · Marcus Welby, M.D. as Neva Phillips
- 1968 · Split Second to an Epitaph as Louise Prescott
- 1968 · Adam-12 as Mrs. Pendleton
- 1967 · Ironside as Louise Prescott
- 1967 · The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Self
- 1963 · Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Anne Lipscott
- 1962 · Combat! as Marianne Fraisnet
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · Dr. Kildare as Nurse Lori Palmer
- 1960 · The Aquanauts as Ellen Marstand
- 1960 · Heller in Pink Tights as Della Southby
- 1959 · Adventures in Paradise as Phyllis Willoughby
- 1959 · The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Jean
- 1959 · Rawhide as Betsy Stauffer
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Virginia Trent
- 1957 · Wagon Train as Julie Revere
- 1956 · The Steve Allen Show as Self - Singer
- 1956 · Glory as Clarabel Tilbee
- 1955 · Matinee Theater as
- 1955 · Hollywood Preview as Self
- 1954 · Climax! as Kathy Fathian
- 1954 · Climax! as Chip
- 1954 · Climax! as Angie Hawley
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Sarah Trask
- 1952 · The Eyes of Two People as Catherine McDermott
- 1951 · Her First Romance as Betty Foster
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Margaret
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Laura
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Elaine
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Self - Intermission Guest
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Ginny
- 1949 · The Secret Garden as Mary Lennox
- 1949 · Little Women as Beth
- 1948 · Studio One as
- 1948 · Studio One as Julie Denton
- 1948 · Studio One as Jenny Walker
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1948 · Big City as Midge
- 1948 · Tenth Avenue Angel as Flavia Mills
- 1947 · The Unfinished Dance as 'Meg' Merlin
- 1947 · Kraft Television Theatre as
- 1946 · Three Wise Fools as Sheila O'Monahan
- 1946 · Bad Bascomb as Emmy
- 1945 · Our Vines Have Tender Grapes as Selma Jacobson
- 1944 · Music for Millions as Mike
- 1944 · Meet Me in St. Louis as "Tootie" Smith
- 1944 · The Canterville Ghost as Lady Jessica de Canterville
- 1944 · Twenty Years After as (archive footage)
- 1943 · Jane Eyre as Adele Varens
- 1943 · Lost Angel as Alpha
- 1943 · Madame Curie as Irene Curie - Age 5
- 1943 · Thousands Cheer as Customer in Red Skelton Skit
- 1943 · Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case as Margaret
- 1943 · You, John Jones! as Daughter
- 1942 · Journey for Margaret as Margaret
- 1941 · Babes on Broadway as Maxine (uncredited)
- Future · Love Is in Bel Air as Vivienne