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Margaret O'Brien
Acting

Margaret O'Brien
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-01-15,San Diego, California, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

Meet Me in St. Louis

7.022

Meet Me in St. Louis
1944-11-28

This Is Our Christmas

2

This Is Our Christmas
2018-11-08

6.9

Jane Eyre
1943-12-24

Heller in Pink Tights

5.8

Heller in Pink Tights
1960-03-01

The Secret Garden

7.074

The Secret Garden
1949-04-30

7.4

Little Women
1949-03-10

7.2

Madame Curie
1943-12-16

Journey for Margaret

6.7

Journey for Margaret
1942-12-17

Thousands Cheer

6.4

Thousands Cheer
1943-09-13

The Craven Cove Murders

8

The Craven Cove Murders
2002-10-11

The Canterville Ghost

6.872

The Canterville Ghost
1944-07-20

Showbiz Goes to War

10

Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

6

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943-05-08

The Unfinished Dance

6.286

The Unfinished Dance
1947-09-19

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

7.2

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945-09-06

Tenth Avenue Angel

6.5

Tenth Avenue Angel
1948-02-20

The Story of Lassie

8

The Story of Lassie
1994-08-14

8

Lost Angel
1943-12-23

Her First Romance

4

Her First Romance
1951-05-04

5.667

Glory
1956-01-11

7.286

Bad Bascomb
1946-05-26

Music for Millions

6.667

Music for Millions
1944-12-18

You, John Jones!

6.286

You, John Jones!
1943-01-14

7.2

Amy
1981-03-20

Three Wise Fools

5.667

Three Wise Fools
1946-09-26

7.813

Big City
1948-03-25

Creaturealm: From the Dead

4

Creaturealm: From the Dead
1998-01-01

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

6.909

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002-08-01

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

7

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973-01-01

The Eyes of Two People

8

The Eyes of Two People
1952-10-23

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic

7

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
1994-01-01

Hollywood Mortuary

4.5

Hollywood Mortuary
1998-01-01

The Pledge of Allegiance

0

The Pledge of Allegiance
1971-06-08

That's Entertainment!

7.4

That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21

Love Is in Bel Air

0

Love Is in Bel Air

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

8.1

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
2011-12-06

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

0

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2018-03-02

Sunset After Dark

3.667

Sunset After Dark
1996-01-01

9

Anabelle Lee
1971-12-17

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

4.2

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2017-01-31

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

7.5

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998-06-19

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!

4.8

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
2017-10-27

10

Death in Space
1974-06-17

Frankenstein Rising

9.5

Frankenstein Rising
2010-04-20

Twenty Years After

8

Twenty Years After
1944-01-01

Babes on Broadway

6.6

Babes on Broadway
1941-12-31

7

Impact Event
2018-04-07

Split Second to an Epitaph

9

Split Second to an Epitaph
1968-09-26

Hollywood’s Children

9

Hollywood’s Children
1982-02-24

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

0

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
2015-09-13

Prepper's Grove

0

Prepper's Grove
2018-10-01

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

8.333

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004-06-22

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen

0

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989-12-02

Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse

0

Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse
2009-05-20

The Mystery of Thirteen

0

The Mystery of Thirteen
1957-10-24

Tales from the Darkside

7.2

Tales from the Darkside
1984-09-30

E! True Hollywood Story

8.15

E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21

7.706

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

5.385

Studio One
1948-11-07

7.8

Combat!
1962-10-02

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.848

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

General Electric Theater

6.833

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Hollywood Preview

7

Hollywood Preview
1955-09-14

7.224

Rawhide
1959-01-09

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

6

The Aquanauts
1960-09-14

7.125

The New Lassie
1989-09-08

3.833

Climax!
1954-10-07

Adventures in Paradise

6.143

Adventures in Paradise
1959-10-05

Matinee Theater

5.286

Matinee Theater
1955-10-31

Robert Montgomery Presents

6

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30

The Steve Allen Show

6.167

The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24

5.711

Dr. Kildare
1961-09-27

7

The Oscars
1953-03-19

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

6.75

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959-09-21

The Mike Douglas Show

5.8

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.533

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01

7.1

Adam-12
1968-09-21

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

5.385

Studio One
1948-11-07

5.385

Studio One
1948-11-07

6.855

Ironside
1967-03-28

3.833

Climax!
1954-10-07

3.833

Climax!
1954-10-07

Kraft Television Theatre

7.8

Kraft Television Theatre
1947-05-07

What's My Line?

7.034

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

7.2

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967-02-05

Murder, She Wrote

7.534

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

5.875

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963-10-04

6.6

Wagon Train
1957-09-18

6.8

Hotel
1982-08-21

Lux Video Theatre

6.714

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Marcus Welby, M.D.

6.575

Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-09-23

Love, American Style

6.105

Love, American Style
1969-09-29

Testimony of Two Men

6

Testimony of Two Men
1977-05-09

9

MGM Parade
1955-09-14