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person_profile-Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien Age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Margaret O'Brien

Date of Birth:

Jan 15, 1937

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Margaret O'Brien

Found 45 Movies in total

... 2023

This Is Our Christmas

Mrs. Foxworth ( Actor )

... 2018

Impact Event

Amanda ( Actor )

... 2018

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!

Bridgette's Grandmother ( Actor )

... 2017

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Ms. Stevenson ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2015

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

Self - Interviewee ( Actor )

... 2011

... 2010

... 2004

... 2002

... 2002

... 1998

... 1998

Hollywood Mortuary

Herself ( Actor )

... 1998

The Story of Lassie

Self ( Actor )

... 1994

Showbiz Goes to War

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1982

Hollywood’s Children

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1982

Amy

Hazel Johnson ( Actor )

... 1981

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1974

Death in Space

Pam Rhodes ( Actor )

... 1974

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1971

Split Second to an Epitaph

Louise Prescott ( Actor )

... 1968

Heller in Pink Tights

Della Southby ( Actor )

... 1960

Glory

Clarabel Tilbee ( Actor )

... 1956

The Eyes of Two People

Catherine McDermott ( Actor )

... 1952

Her First Romance

Betty Foster ( Actor )

... 1951

The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox ( Actor )

... 1949

Little Women

Beth ( Actor )

... 1949

Big City

Midge ( Actor )

... 1948

Tenth Avenue Angel

Flavia Mills ( Actor )

... 1948

The Unfinished Dance

'Meg' Merlin ( Actor )

... 1947

Three Wise Fools

Sheila O'Monahan ( Actor )

... 1946

Bad Bascomb

Emmy ( Actor )

... 1946

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Selma Jacobson ( Actor )

... 1945

Music for Millions

Mike ( Actor )

... 1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

"Tootie" Smith ( Actor )

... 1944

The Canterville Ghost

Lady Jessica de Canterville ( Actor )

... 1944

Jane Eyre

Adele Varens ( Actor )

... 1943

Lost Angel

Alpha ( Actor )

... 1943

Madame Curie

Irene Curie - Age 5 ( Actor )

... 1943

Thousands Cheer

Customer in Red Skelton Skit ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1943

Journey for Margaret

Margaret ( Actor )

... 1942

Babes on Broadway

Maxine (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941