
Margalo Gillmore
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.797 |
Birthday | 1897-05-30 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
Also Known As | Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore, Margaret Lorraine Gillmore, |

1951

Cause for Alarm!
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A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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1966

The Trouble with Angels
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Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens gr...
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1950

The Happy Years
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Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whos...
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1956

Gaby
7/1
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
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1954

Woman's World
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1952

Skirts Ahoy!
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1951

The Law and the Lady
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A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
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1953

Scandal at Scourie
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1951

Elopement
5/1
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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1950

Perfect Strangers
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Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from the...
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1932

Wayward
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Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
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1956

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
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Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
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1956

High Society
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1987

The Ten-Year Lunch
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The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table grou...
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1951

Behave Yourself!
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A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
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1960

Peter Pan
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1956

Peter Pan
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This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the same cast, it nevertheless is its own unique performance...
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1955

Peter Pan
6.1/23
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1959

Upstairs and Downstairs
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On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-...
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1928

The Home Girl
0/0
A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.
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