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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
Character:Self
Release Date:09/04/2023
This Is Our Christmas
Character:Mrs. Foxworth
Release Date:08/11/2018
Prepper's Grove
Character:Gigi
Release Date:01/10/2018
Impact Event
Character:Amanda
Release Date:07/04/2018
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
Character:Bridgette's Grandmother
Release Date:27/10/2017
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character:Ms. Stevenson
Release Date:31/01/2017
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
Character:Self
Release Date:13/09/2015
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:06/12/2011
Frankenstein Rising
Character:
Release Date:20/04/2010
Elf Sparkle Meets Christmas the Horse
Character:Miss Coyote (voice)
Release Date:20/05/2009
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Character:Self
Release Date:22/06/2004
The Craven Cove Murders
Character:Fan
Release Date:11/10/2002
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Character:Self - Actress
Release Date:01/08/2002
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
Character:Self
Release Date:19/06/1998
Creaturealm: From the Dead
Character:Herself
Release Date:01/01/1998
Hollywood Mortuary
Character:Herself
Release Date:01/01/1998
Sunset After Dark
Character:Betty Corman
Release Date:01/01/1996
The Story of Lassie
Character:Self
Release Date:14/08/1994
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1994
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Character:Self
Release Date:02/12/1989
Showbiz Goes to War
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:31/12/1982
Hollywood’s Children
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:24/02/1982
Amy
Character:Hazel Johnson
Release Date:20/03/1981
That's Entertainment!
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:21/06/1974
Death in Space
Character:Pam Rhodes
Release Date:17/06/1974
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1973
Anabelle Lee
Character:
Release Date:17/12/1971
The Pledge of Allegiance
Character:Narrator
Release Date:08/06/1971
Split Second to an Epitaph
Character:Louise Prescott
Release Date:26/09/1968
Heller in Pink Tights
Character:Della Southby
Release Date:01/03/1960
Glory
Character:Clarabel Tilbee
Release Date:11/01/1956
The Eyes of Two People
Character:Catherine McDermott
Release Date:23/10/1952
Her First Romance
Character:Betty Foster
Release Date:04/05/1951
The Secret Garden
Character:Mary Lennox
Release Date:30/04/1949
Little Women
Character:Beth
Release Date:10/03/1949
Big City
Character:Midge
Release Date:25/03/1948
Tenth Avenue Angel
Character:Flavia Mills
Release Date:20/02/1948
The Unfinished Dance
Character:'Meg' Merlin
Release Date:19/09/1947
Three Wise Fools
Character:Sheila O'Monahan
Release Date:26/09/1946
Bad Bascomb
Character:Emmy
Release Date:26/05/1946
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Character:Selma Jacobson
Release Date:06/09/1945
Music for Millions
Character:Mike
Release Date:18/12/1944
Meet Me in St. Louis
Character:'Tootie' Smith
Release Date:28/11/1944
The Canterville Ghost
Character:Lady Jessica de Canterville
Release Date:20/07/1944
Twenty Years After
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1944
Jane Eyre
Character:Adele Varens
Release Date:24/12/1943
Lost Angel
Character:Alpha
Release Date:23/12/1943
Madame Curie
Character:Irene Curie - Age 5
Release Date:16/12/1943
Thousands Cheer
Character:Customer in Red Skelton Skit
Release Date:13/09/1943
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
Character:Margaret
Release Date:08/05/1943
You, John Jones!
Character:Daughter
Release Date:14/01/1943
Journey for Margaret
Character:Margaret
Release Date:17/12/1942
Babes on Broadway
Character:Maxine (uncredited)
Release Date:31/12/1941
Television Appearances
E! True Hollywood Story
Character:
The New Lassie
Character:
Tales from the Darkside
Character:Mildred Webster
Murder, She Wrote
Character:Jane
Hotel
Character:Martha Connelly
Testimony of Two Men
Character:Flora Bumpstead Eaton
Love, American Style
Character:
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character:Neva Phillips
Adam-12
Character:Mrs. Pendleton
Ironside
Character:Louise Prescott
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Character:Self
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Character:Anne Lipscott
Combat!
Character:Marianne Fraisnet
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
Dr. Kildare
Character:Nurse Lori Palmer
The Aquanauts
Character:Ellen Marstand
Adventures in Paradise
Character:Phyllis Willoughby
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Character:Jean
Rawhide
Character:Betsy Stauffer
Perry Mason
Character:Virginia Trent
Wagon Train
Character:Julie Revere
The Steve Allen Show
Character:Self - Singer
Matinee Theater
Character:
Hollywood Preview
Character:Self
MGM Parade
Character:Self
Climax!
Character:Kathy Fathian
Climax!
Character:Chip
Climax!
Character:Angie Hawley
The Oscars
Character:Self
General Electric Theater
Character:Sarah Trask
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Margaret
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Laura
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Elaine
Lux Video Theatre
Character:Self - Intermission Guest
What's My Line?
Character:Self
Robert Montgomery Presents
Character:Ginny
Studio One
Character:
Studio One
Character:Julie Denton
Studio One
Character:Jenny Walker
The Ed Sullivan Show
Character:Self
Kraft Television Theatre
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