Margalo Gillmore

Born: 1897-05-30

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.


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High Society

as Mrs. Seth Lord
Released: 1956-07-17

After a divorce with her childhood friend C.K. Dexter Haven, high society Tracy Lord is...

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Behave Yourself!

as Kate's Mother
Released: 1951-09-22

A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.

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The Trouble with Angels

as Sister Barbara
Released: 1966-03-29

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by...

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Peter Pan

as Mrs. Darling
Released: 1960-12-08

In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy...

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Cause for Alarm!

as Mrs. Edwards
Released: 1951-03-30

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and...

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Perfect Strangers

as Isobel Bradford
Released: 1950-03-11

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that...

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Elopement

as Claire Osborne
Released: 1951-11-23

Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.

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Skirts Ahoy!

as Stauton
Released: 1952-05-28

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest...

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Peter Pan

as Mrs. Darling
Released: 1955-03-07

This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on...

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Woman's World

as Mrs. Evelyn Andrews
Released: 1954-09-30

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an...

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Peter Pan

as Mrs. Darling
Released: 1956-01-09

This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the...

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Wayward

as Louisa Daniels
Released: 1932-02-19

Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel...

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The Ten-Year Lunch

as Herself - Participant
Released: 1987-09-28

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during...

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Upstairs and Downstairs

as Mrs. McGuffey
Released: 1959-11-02

On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in...

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Gaby

as Mrs. Helen Carrington
Released: 1956-05-09

A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.

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Scandal at Scourie

as Alice Hanover
Released: 1953-05-17

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to...

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The Law and the Lady

as Cora Caighn
Released: 1951-07-20

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in...

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The Happy Years

as Maude Stover
Released: 1950-07-07

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a...

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The Home Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1928-12-01

A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.

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