Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret O'Brien, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
This Is Our Christmas
Film · 2018
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Film · 2018
Impact Event
Film · 2018
Prepper's Grove
Film · 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Film · 2017
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
Film · 2017
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Film · 2015
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
Film · 2011
Frankenstein Rising
Film · 2010
Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse
Film · 2009
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Film · 2004
The Craven Cove Murders
Film · 2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Film · 2002
Creaturealm: From the Dead
Film · 1998
Hollywood Mortuary
Film · 1998
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Film · 1998
Sunset After Dark
Film · 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
Series · 1996
The Story of Lassie
Film · 1994
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
Film · 1994
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Film · 1989
The New Lassie
Series · 1989
Tales from the Darkside
Series · 1984
Murder, She Wrote
Series · 1984
Showbiz Goes to War
Film · 1982
Hollywood’s Children
Film · 1982
Hotel
Series · 1982
Amy
Film · 1981
Testimony of Two Men
Series · 1977
That's Entertainment!
Film · 1974
Death in Space
Film · 1974
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Film · 1973
The Pledge of Allegiance
Film · 1971
Diabolic Wedding
Film · 1971
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Series · 1969
Love, American Style
Series · 1969
Split Second to an Epitaph
Film · 1968
Adam-12
Series · 1968
Ironside
Series · 1967
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Series · 1967
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Series · 1963
Combat!
Series · 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Series · 1962
Dr. Kildare
Series · 1961
The Mike Douglas Show
Series · 1961
Heller in Pink Tights
Film · 1960
The Aquanauts
Series · 1960
Rawhide
Series · 1959
Adventures in Paradise
Series · 1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Series · 1959
The Mystery of Thirteen
Film · 1957
Perry Mason
Series · 1957
Wagon Train
Series · 1957
Glory
Film · 1956
The Steve Allen Show
Series · 1956
Hollywood Preview
Series · 1955
Matinee Theater
Series · 1955
MGM Parade
Series · 1955
Climax!
Series · 1954
Climax!
Series · 1954
Climax!
Series · 1954
General Electric Theater
Series · 1953
The Oscars
Series · 1953
The Eyes of Two People
Film · 1952
Her First Romance
Film · 1951
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
Series · 1950
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
What's My Line?
Series · 1950
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Little Women
Film · 1949
The Secret Garden
Film · 1949
Tenth Avenue Angel
Film · 1948
Big City
Film · 1948
Studio One
Series · 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Series · 1948
Studio One
Series · 1948
Studio One
Series · 1948
The Unfinished Dance
Film · 1947
Kraft Television Theatre
Series · 1947
Bad Bascomb
Film · 1946
Three Wise Fools
Film · 1946
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Film · 1945
Meet Me in St. Louis
Film · 1944
The Canterville Ghost
Film · 1944
Music for Millions
Film · 1944
Twenty Years After
Film · 1944
Jane Eyre
Film · 1943
Madame Curie
Film · 1943
Thousands Cheer
Film · 1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Film · 1943
Lost Angel
Film · 1943
You, John Jones!
Film · 1943
Journey for Margaret
Film · 1942
Babes on Broadway
Film · 1941
Love Is in Bel Air
Film