Margaret O'Brien
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
Perry Mason
Virginia Trent
1957
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Jane
1984
Series
Ironside
Louise Prescott
1967
Series
Wagon Train
Julie Revere
1957
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Anne Lipscott
1963
Series
Robert Montgomery Presents
Ginny
1950
Series
Adam-12
Mrs. Pendleton
1968
Series
Matinee Theater
1955
Series
Love, American Style
1969
Series
Rawhide
Betsy Stauffer
1959
Series
Combat!
Marianne Fraisnet
1962
Series
Dr. Kildare
Nurse Lori Palmer
1961
Series
Hotel
Martha Connelly
1982
Series
Climax!
Kathy Fathian
1954
Series
Climax!
Chip
1954
Series
Climax!
Angie Hawley
1954
Series
Tales from the Darkside
Mildred Webster
1984
Series
Studio One
1948
Series
Studio One
Julie Denton
1948
Series
Studio One
Jenny Walker
1948
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Neva Phillips
1969
Series
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer
1956
Series
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Adventures in Paradise
Phyllis Willoughby
1959
Series
MGM Parade
Self
1955
Series
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Jean
1959
Lux Video Theatre
Margaret
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Laura
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Elaine
1950
Lux Video Theatre
Self - Intermission Guest
1950
Series
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self
1967
Film
Jane Eyre
Adele Varens
1943
Series
The Aquanauts
Ellen Marstand
1960
Film
Little Women
Beth
1949
Series
The New Lassie
1989
Series
General Electric Theater
Sarah Trask
1953
Film
Meet Me in St. Louis
'Tootie' Smith
1944
Film
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Film
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox
1949
Film
Diabolic Wedding
1971
Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Series
Testimony of Two Men
Flora Bumpstead Eaton
1977
Film
This Is Our Christmas
Mrs. Foxworth
2018
Film
Madame Curie
Irene Curie - Age 5
1943
Film
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
1944
Hollywood Preview
Self
1955
Film
Babes on Broadway
Maxine (uncredited)
1941
Film
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Self
1998
Film
Heller in Pink Tights
Della Southby
1960
Film
Three Wise Fools
Sheila O'Monahan
1946
Film
Amy
Hazel Johnson
1981
Film
Tenth Avenue Angel
Flavia Mills
1948
Film
Thousands Cheer
Drug Store Customer
1943
Film
Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse
Miss Coyote (voice)
2009
Film
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
1982
Film
The Unfinished Dance
'Meg' Merlin
1947
Film
Showbiz Goes to War
Self (archive footage)
1982
Film
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self - Actress
2002
Film
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
1973
Film
The Canterville Ghost
Lady Jessica de Canterville
1944
Film
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
Bridgette's Grandmother
2017
Film
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
Self - Interviewee
2011
Film
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Self
2018
Film
Her First Romance
Betty Foster
1951
Film
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Margaret
1943
Film
Big City
Midge
1948
Film
The Story of Lassie
Self
1994
Film
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Self
2004
Film
The Eyes of Two People
Catherine McDermott
1952
Film
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Selma Jacobson
1945
Film
Music for Millions
Mike
1944
Film
Bad Bascomb
Emmy
1946
Film
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ms. Stevenson
2017
The Mystery of Thirteen
Annie Brookes
1957
Film
Split Second to an Epitaph
Louise Prescott
1968
Film
Lost Angel
Alpha
1943
Film
Glory
Clarabel Tilbee
1956
Film
Impact Event
Amanda
2018
Film
Journey for Margaret
Margaret
1942
Film
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Self
1989
Film
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Self
2015
Film
Death in Space
Pam Rhodes
1974
Prepper's Grove
Gigi
2018
Film
You, John Jones!
Daughter
1943
Film
Love Is in Bel Air
Vivienne
Film
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
Self
1994
Film
Hollywood Mortuary
Herself
1998
Film
Creaturealm: From the Dead
Herself
1998
Sunset After Dark
Betty Corman
1996
Film
The Craven Cove Murders
Fan
2002
Film
The Pledge of Allegiance
Narrator
1971
Film
Frankenstein Rising
2010