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Margaret O'Brien
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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

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

5.7

Heller in Pink Tights
1960-03-01

7.4

Little Women
1949-03-10

The Secret Garden

7.1

The Secret Garden
1949-04-30

7.149

Madame Curie
1943-12-16

Thousands Cheer

6.4

Thousands Cheer
1943-09-13

Journey for Margaret

6.6

Journey for Margaret
1942-12-17

The Craven Cove Murders

6

The Craven Cove Murders
2002-10-11

The Canterville Ghost

6.615

The Canterville Ghost
1944-07-20

Showbiz Goes to War

10

Showbiz Goes to War
1982-12-31

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

5.5

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

The Unfinished Dance

6

The Unfinished Dance
1947-09-19

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

6.9

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945-09-06

Tenth Avenue Angel

6.1

Tenth Avenue Angel
1948-02-20

The Story of Lassie

0

The Story of Lassie
1994-08-14

7.5

Lost Angel
1943-12-23

Her First Romance

2

Her First Romance
1951-05-04

5

Glory
1956-01-11

6.2

Bad Bascomb
1946-05-26

Music for Millions

6

Music for Millions
1944-12-18

You, John Jones!

6

You, John Jones!
1943-01-14

7.3

Amy
1981-03-20

Three Wise Fools

5

Three Wise Fools
1946-09-26

7.2

Big City
1948-03-25

Creaturealm: From the Dead

0

Creaturealm: From the Dead
1998-01-01

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

6.6

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

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

0

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

The Eyes of Two People

0

The Eyes of Two People
1952-10-23

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

0

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

Hollywood Mortuary

1

Hollywood Mortuary
1998-01-01

The Pledge of Allegiance

0

The Pledge of Allegiance
1971-06-08

That's Entertainment!

7.2

That's Entertainment!
1974-06-21

Love Is in Bel Air

0

Love Is in Bel Air

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

7.8

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

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

0

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2023-04-09

Sunset After Dark

3

Sunset After Dark
1996-01-01

0

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

7.3

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

Frankenstein Rising

9.5

Frankenstein Rising
2010-04-20

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!

4.9

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

0

Death in Space
1974-06-17

Twenty Years After

6

Twenty Years After
1944-01-01

Babes on Broadway

6.4

Babes on Broadway
1941-12-31

10

Impact Event
2018-04-07

Split Second to an Epitaph

0

Split Second to an Epitaph
1968-09-26

Hollywood’s Children

0

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

Tales from the Darkside

7.2

Tales from the Darkside
1984-09-30

E! True Hollywood Story

8.1

E! True Hollywood Story
1996-08-21

7.6

Perry Mason
1957-09-21

4.4

Studio One
1948-11-07

7.6

Combat!
1962-10-02

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.5

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

General Electric Theater

5.5

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

Hollywood Preview

6

Hollywood Preview
1955-09-14

7

Rawhide
1959-01-09

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

5.5

The Aquanauts
1960-09-14

7

The New Lassie
1989-09-08

2.7

Climax!
1954-10-07

Adventures in Paradise

5.7

Adventures in Paradise
1959-10-05

Matinee Theater

3.3

Matinee Theater
1955-10-31

Robert Montgomery Presents

4.333

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30

The Steve Allen Show

4

The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24

5.4

Dr. Kildare
1961-09-27

7

The Oscars
1953-03-19

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

6.3

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
1959-09-21

The Mike Douglas Show

4.8

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01

7.1

Adam-12
1968-09-21

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

4.4

Studio One
1948-11-07

4.4

Studio One
1948-11-07

6.9

Ironside
1967-03-28

2.7

Climax!
1954-10-07

2.7

Climax!
1954-10-07

Kraft Television Theatre

7

Kraft Television Theatre
1947-05-07

What's My Line?

6.6

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

6.889

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967-02-05

Murder, She Wrote

7.6

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

5.2

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963-10-04

6.4

Wagon Train
1957-09-18

6.7

Hotel
1982-08-21

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Marcus Welby, M.D.

6.5

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