Margaret O'Brien
Acting
Born: January 15, 1937 (age 89) · San Diego, California, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
Little Women
1949
Jane Eyre
1943
Perry Mason
1957
Combat!
1962
Tales from the Darkside
1984
The Oscars
1953
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Ironside
1967
That's Entertainment!
1974
Madame Curie
1943
Photos (2)
Movies (37)
Jane Eyre
Adele Varens
Little Women
Beth
Meet Me in St. Louis
'Tootie' Smith
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox
Madame Curie
Irene Curie - Age 5
The Canterville Ghost
Lady Jessica de Canterville
Babes on Broadway
Maxine (uncredited)
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
Thousands Cheer
Drug Store Customer
Amy
Hazel Johnson
Diabolic Wedding
1971
This Is Our Christmas
Mrs. Foxworth
Heller in Pink Tights
Della Southby
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
Bridgette's Grandmother
Tenth Avenue Angel
Flavia Mills
Split Second to an Epitaph
Louise Prescott
Music for Millions
Mike
Big City
Midge
Three Wise Fools
Sheila O'Monahan
Impact Event
Amanda
Lost Angel
Alpha
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Selma Jacobson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ms. Stevenson
Bad Bascomb
Emmy
The Unfinished Dance
'Meg' Merlin
Journey for Margaret
Margaret
Her First Romance
Betty Foster
You, John Jones!
Daughter
Glory
Clarabel Tilbee
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Margaret
Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse
Miss Coyote (voice)
Death in Space
Pam Rhodes
The Eyes of Two People
Catherine McDermott
Frankenstein Rising
2010
The Pledge of Allegiance
Narrator
The Craven Cove Murders
Fan
TV Shows (28)
Perry Mason
Virginia Trent · 1 eps
Ironside
Louise Prescott · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Jane · 1 eps
Wagon Train
Julie Revere · 1 eps
Adam-12
Mrs. Pendleton · 1 eps
Robert Montgomery Presents
Ginny · 1 eps
Love, American Style
1 eps
Tales from the Darkside
Mildred Webster · 1 eps
Dr. Kildare
Nurse Lori Palmer · 1 eps
Hotel
Martha Connelly · 1 eps
Climax!
Kathy Fathian · 1 eps
Climax!
Chip · 1 eps
Climax!
Angie Hawley · 1 eps
Combat!
Marianne Fraisnet · 1 eps
Rawhide
Betsy Stauffer · 1 eps
Matinee Theater
3 eps
Studio One
1 eps
Studio One
Julie Denton · 1 eps
Studio One
Jenny Walker · 1 eps
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Neva Phillips · 1 eps
Kraft Television Theatre
1 eps
Adventures in Paradise
Phyllis Willoughby · 1 eps
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Jean · 1 eps
The Aquanauts
Ellen Marstand · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Sarah Trask · 1 eps
The New Lassie
1 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
1 eps
Testimony of Two Men
Flora Bumpstead Eaton · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (22)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
What's My Line?
Self · 2 eps
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 2 eps
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer · 1 eps
MGM Parade
Self · 1 eps
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Self · 1 eps
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self - Actress
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
Self (archive footage)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Self
The Story of Lassie
Self
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Self
Hollywood Mortuary
Herself
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Self
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
Self - Interviewee
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Self
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
Self
Creaturealm: From the Dead
Herself
