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.
Meet Me in St. Louis
("Tootie" Smith)
This Is Our Christmas
(Mrs. Foxworth)
Jane Eyre
(Adele Varens)
Heller in Pink Tights
(Della Southby)
Little Women
(Beth)
The Secret Garden
(Mary Lennox)
Madame Curie
(Irene Curie - Age 5)
Thousands Cheer
(Customer in Red Skelton Skit)
Journey for Margaret
(Margaret)
The Craven Cove Murders
(Fan)
The Canterville Ghost
(Lady Jessica de Canterville)
Showbiz Goes to War
((archive footage))
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
(Margaret)
The Unfinished Dance
('Meg' Merlin)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
(Selma Jacobson)
Tenth Avenue Angel
(Flavia Mills)
The Story of Lassie
(Self)
Lost Angel
(Alpha)
Her First Romance
(Betty Foster)
Glory
(Clarabel Tilbee)
Bad Bascomb
(Emmy)
Music for Millions
(Mike)
You, John Jones!
(Daughter)
Amy
(Hazel Johnson)
Three Wise Fools
(Sheila O'Monahan)
Big City
(Midge)
Creaturealm: From the Dead
(Herself)
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
(Self - Actress)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
(Self (archive footage))
The Eyes of Two People
(Catherine McDermott)
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
(Self)
Hollywood Mortuary
(Herself)
The Pledge of Allegiance
(Narrator)
That's Entertainment!
((archive footage))
Love Is in Bel Air
(Vivienne)
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
(Self - Interviewee)
Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
(Herself)
Sunset After Dark
(Betty Corman)
Anabelle Lee
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Ms. Stevenson)
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
(Self)
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
(Bridgette's Grandmother)
Frankenstein Rising
Death in Space
(Pam Rhodes)
Twenty Years After
((archive footage))
Babes on Broadway
(Maxine (uncredited))
Impact Event
(Amanda)
Split Second to an Epitaph
(Louise Prescott)
Hollywood’s Children
(Self (archive footage))
Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
(Self)
Prepper's Grove
(Gigi)
Tales from the Darkside
(Mildred Webster)
E! True Hollywood Story
Perry Mason
(Virginia Trent)
Studio One
Combat!
(Marianne Fraisnet)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
General Electric Theater
(Sarah Trask)
Hollywood Preview
(Self)
Rawhide
(Betsy Stauffer)
Lux Video Theatre
(Margaret)
The Aquanauts
(Ellen Marstand)
The New Lassie
Climax!
(Kathy Fathian)
Adventures in Paradise
(Phyllis Willoughby)
Matinee Theater
Robert Montgomery Presents
(Ginny)
The Steve Allen Show
(Self - Singer)
Dr. Kildare
(Nurse Lori Palmer)
The Oscars
(Self)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
(Jean)
The Mike Douglas Show
(Self)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Adam-12
(Mrs. Pendleton)
Lux Video Theatre
(Laura)
Lux Video Theatre
(Elaine)
Studio One
(Julie Denton)
Studio One
(Jenny Walker)
Ironside
(Louise Prescott)
Climax!
(Chip)
Climax!
(Angie Hawley)
Kraft Television Theatre
What's My Line?
(Self - Mystery Guest)
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
(Self)
Murder, She Wrote
(Jane)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(Anne Lipscott)
Wagon Train
(Julie Revere)
Hotel
(Martha Connelly)
Lux Video Theatre
(Self - Intermission Guest)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
(Neva Phillips)