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Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937 in San Diego, California) is an American film actress, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history.
Born Angela Maxine O'Brien, her father, a circus performer, died months after her birth; 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. 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. She played the role of Betsy Stauffer, a small town nurse, in "The Incident of the Town in Terror" on Rawhide.
Margaret later shed her child star image in 1958 by appearing on the cover of Life Magazine with the caption "The Girl's Grown"'. 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. One rare television outing was as a guest star on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. in the early 1970s, reuniting Margaret with her The Canterville Ghost co-star Robert Young.
She has been married twice, to Harold Allen, Jr. from 1959 to 1968, and later to Roy Thorsen. The later marriage produced her only child, Mara Tolene Thorsen, born in 1977. Margaret is that rare child star who did not wind up fighting off poverty and addictions in later life. All her memories of her child star days are happy ones, except for working with the difficult Wallace Beery, who would pinch her to the point where crew members would have to protect her.
O'Brien has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 1620 Vine St. In 2006, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University.
AccomplishmentsFilmography
- Babes on Broadway (1941)
- Journey for Margaret (1942)
- You, John Jones! (1943) (short subject)
- Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
- Thousands Cheer (1943)
- Madame Curie (1943)
- Lost Angel (1943)
- Jane Eyre (1944)
- The Canterville Ghost (1944)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Music for Millions (1944)
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
- Bad Bascomb (1946)
- Three Wise Fools (1946)
- The Unfinished Dance (1947)
- Big City (1948)
- Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
- Little Women (1949)
- The Secret Garden (1949)
- Her First Romance (1951)
- Girls Hand in Hand (1952)
- Glory (1956)
- Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
- Annabelle Lee (1968)
- Diabolic Wedding (1974)
- Amy (1981)
- Sunset After Dark (1996)
- Creaturealm: From the Dead (1998)
- Hollywood Mortuary (1998)
- Child Stars (2000)
- Dead Season (2002)
- Mumsie (2003)
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
- Boxes (2005) (short subject)
- Store (2006)
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Grand Strand Scoreboard Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Low Net: Paul O'Bryant 67; Mac Daniels 69; Sean O'Brien 70; Rich Riker 70; Tom Capowski 71; Jim Fox 72; Wayne Darnell 73; Danny Wims 74; Kerry Taylor 74; ... |
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