Margaret O'Brien

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15. Januar 1937 (89 Jahre)
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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Bekannt aus

  • Heimweh nach St. Louis
    Heimweh nach St. Louis1944
  • Der geheime Garten
    Der geheime Garten1949
  • Die Waise von Lowood
    Die Waise von Lowood1943
  • Kleine tapfere Jo
    Kleine tapfere Jo1949
  • Frühling des Lebens
    Frühling des Lebens1945
  • Das Gespenst von Canterville
    Das Gespenst von Canterville1944
  • Tenth Avenue Angel
    Tenth Avenue Angel1948
  • Musik für Millionen
    Musik für Millionen1944
  • Der kleine Engel
    Der kleine Engel1943
  • Die Dame und der Killer
    Die Dame und der Killer1960
  • Tanz ohne Ende
    Tanz ohne Ende1947
  • Three Wise Fools
    Three Wise Fools1946
  • Big City
    Big City1948
  • Eine Falle für den Banditen
    Eine Falle für den Banditen1946
  • Glory
    Glory1956
  • Margaret aus London
    Margaret aus London1942
  • Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
    Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!2017
  • Impact Event
    Impact Event2018
  • Her First Romance
    Her First Romance1951
  • Amy - Die Stunde der Wahrheit
    Amy - Die Stunde der Wahrheit1981

Filmografie

2023
Christmas Couples Retreat · as Mrs. Foxworth
2018
This Is Our Christmas · as Mrs. Foxworth
2018
Impact Event · as Amanda
2017
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! · as Bridgette's Grandmother
2017
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · as Ms. Stevenson
2010
2009
Dead in Love · as Cris
1996
1996
Sunset After Dark · as Betty Corman
1989
1984
1983
Tales from the Darkside · as Mildred Webster
1983
Hotel · as Martha Connelly
1981
Amy · as Hazel Johnson
1977
Testimony of Two Men · as Flora Bumpstead Eaton
1974
That's Entertainment! · as (archive Footage)
1971
1969
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D. · as Neva Phillips
1968
Adam-12 · as Mrs. Pendleton
1967
Ironside · as Louise Prescott
1963
1962
Combat! · as Marianne Fraisnet
1961
Dr. Kildare · as Nurse Lori Palmer
1961
The DuPont Show of the Week · as Elsa Thaelman
1960
Checkmate · as Angela Kendricks
1960
The Aquanauts · as Ellen Marstand
1960
Heller in Pink Tights · as Della Southby
1959
Adventures in Paradise · as Phyllis Willoughby
1959
1959
Rawhide · as Betsy Stauffer
1958
Pursuit · as Mara
1957
Suspicion · as Marjorie Reardon
1957
Perry Mason · as Virginia Trent
1957
Wagon Train · as Julie Revere
1956
Playhouse 90 · as Annie Brookes
1956
Glory · as Clarabel Tilbee
1955
1955
1954
Climax! · as Angie Hawley
1953
The United States Steel Hour · as Mary Clayborne
1953
General Electric Theater · as Sarah Trask
1952
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre · as Eleanor Brown
1951
Her First Romance · as Betty Foster
1951
1950
1949
The Secret Garden · as Mary Lennox
1949
Little Women · as Beth
1948
Studio One · as Julie Denton
1948
Big City · as Midge
1948
Tenth Avenue Angel · as Flavia Mills
1947
The Unfinished Dance · as 'meg' Merlin
1947
1946
Three Wise Fools · as Sheila O'monahan
1946
Bad Bascomb · as Emmy
1945
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes · as Selma Jacobson
1944
1944
Meet Me in St. Louis · as 'tootie' Smith
1944
The Canterville Ghost · as Lady Jessica De Canterville
1943
Jane Eyre · as Adele Varens
1943
Lost Angel · as Alpha
1943
Madame Curie · as Irene Curie - Age 5
1943
Thousands Cheer · as Customer In Red Skelton Skit
1943
1942
Journey for Margaret · as Margaret
1941
Babes on Broadway · as Maxine (uncredited)