Margaret O'Brien
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.
Known For Acting
Most Rating 4.981
Birthday 1937-01-15
Place of Birth San Diego, California, USA
Also Known As Angela Maxine O'Brien, Maxine O'Brien,
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

This Is Our Christmas
2018

This Is Our Christmas

Jane Eyre
1943

Jane Eyre

Heller in Pink Tights
1960

Heller in Pink Tights

Little Women
1949

Little Women

The Secret Garden
1949

The Secret Garden

Madame Curie
1943

Madame Curie

Thousands Cheer
1943

Thousands Cheer

Journey for Margaret
1942

Journey for Margaret

The Craven Cove Murders
2002

The Craven Cove Murders

The Canterville Ghost
1944

The Canterville Ghost

Showbiz Goes to War
1982

Showbiz Goes to War

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

The Unfinished Dance
1947

The Unfinished Dance

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
1945

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Tenth Avenue Angel
1948

Tenth Avenue Angel

The Story of Lassie
1994

The Story of Lassie

Lost Angel
1943

Lost Angel

Her First Romance
1951

Her First Romance

Glory
1956

Glory

Bad Bascomb
1946

Bad Bascomb

Music for Millions
1944

Music for Millions

You, John Jones!
1943

You, John Jones!

Amy
1981

Amy

Three Wise Fools
1946

Three Wise Fools

Big City
1948

Big City

Creaturealm: From the Dead
1998

Creaturealm: From the Dead

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

The Eyes of Two People
1952

The Eyes of Two People

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic
1994

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Making of an American Classic

Hollywood Mortuary
1998

Hollywood Mortuary

The Pledge of Allegiance
1971

The Pledge of Allegiance

That's Entertainment!
1974

That's Entertainment!

Love Is in Bel Air

Love Is in Bel Air

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
2011

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story
2023

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

Sunset After Dark
1996

Sunset After Dark

Anabelle Lee
1971

Anabelle Lee

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2017

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's

Frankenstein Rising
2010

Frankenstein Rising

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!
2017

Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill!

Death in Space
1974

Death in Space

Twenty Years After
1944

Twenty Years After

Babes on Broadway
1941

Babes on Broadway

Impact Event
2018

Impact Event

Split Second to an Epitaph
1968

Split Second to an Epitaph

Hollywood’s Children
1982

Hollywood’s Children

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity
2015

Marsha Hunt's Sweet Adversity

Prepper's Grove
2018

Prepper's Grove

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies