Margalo Gillmore

Attore

30 maggio 1897 — 30 giugno 1986 (89 anni)
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A fourth-generation actor on her father's side, she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her stage acting career stretched from The Scrap of Paper in 1917 through to Noël Coward's musical Sail Away on Broadway in 1961. She was first noticed by the critics in the 1919 play The Famous Mrs. Fair, which she appeared in with Henry Miller and Blanche Bates. In 1921 she played the tubercular patient Eileen Carmody in Eugene O'Neill's The Straw, and in 1945 she originated the role of Kay Thorndike in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union. Gillmore appeared regularly with the Theatre Guild.

Having appeared as an extra in a silent film for the Vitagraph Studios in 1913 aged 16, and in a short, The Home Girl in 1928, Gillmore made her film debut in a major role in 1932 in Wayward, but did not appear on screen again until the 1950s in such films as Cause for Alarm!, Perfect Strangers, High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).

During World War II, Gillmore had a role in the traveling production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. The production starred much of the original Broadway cast headed by leading actress Katharine Cornell, and directed by Cornell's husband Guthrie McClintic. The play entertained troops in Italy, France and England and reached within a few miles of the front in the Netherlands, and the cast made a point of visiting military hospitals every day.

She played Mrs. Darling in the Broadway and televised versions of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin. She was a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table.

On 30 June 1986, Gillmore died of cancer, aged 89. Her remains were interred in Aaron Cemetery, Walker County, Alabama.

Film e Serie su Plex

  • La lettera accusatrice
    La lettera accusatrice1951
  • Il cane della sposa
    Il cane della sposa1951
  • Gonne al vento
    Gonne al vento1952

Famoso per

  • La lettera accusatrice
    La lettera accusatrice1951
  • Guai con gli angeli
    Guai con gli angeli1966
  • Peter Pan
    Peter Pan1960
  • Il mondo è delle donne
    Il mondo è delle donne1954
  • Il cane della sposa
    Il cane della sposa1951
  • The Happy Years
    The Happy Years1950
  • Intermezzo matrimoniale
    Intermezzo matrimoniale1950
  • L'avventuriera
    L'avventuriera1951
  • Gaby
    Gaby1956
  • Gonne al vento
    Gonne al vento1952
  • L'orfana senza sorriso
    L'orfana senza sorriso1953
  • Peter Pan
    Peter Pan1955

Filmografia

1966
The Trouble with Angels · as Sister Barbara
1960
Peter Pan · as Mrs. Darling
1959
Upstairs and Downstairs · as Mrs. Mcguffey
1959
The Play of the Week · as Aunt Hettie
1956
Gaby · as Mrs. Helen Carrington
1956
High Society · as Mrs. Lord
1955
Peter Pan · as Mrs. Darling
1954
Producers' Showcase · as Arabel Moulton-Barrett
1954
Woman's World · as Mrs. Evelyn Andrews
1953
Scandal at Scourie · as Alice Hanover
1952
Skirts Ahoy! · as StautonSu Plex
1951
Elopement · as Claire Osborne
1951
Behave Yourself! · as Kate's MotherSu Plex
1951
The Law and the Lady · as Cora Caighn
1951
Cause for Alarm! · as Mrs. EdwardsSu Plex
1950
1950
The Lux Video Theatre · as Mrs. Mason
1950
Perfect Strangers · as Isobel Bradford
1950
The Happy Years · as Maude Stover
1950
1948
Ford Theatre · as Lady Sneerwell
1948
1932
Wayward · as Louisa Daniels

1987
The Ten-Year Lunch · as Herself - Participant
1985
American Masters · as Self