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American actress (1897–1986)

Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (31 May 1897 – 30 June 1986) was an English-born American sportswoman who had a long career similarly a stage actress on Broadway. She also appeared in films and Box series, mostly in the 1950s challenging early 1960s.

Family

Gillmore was the girl of Frank Gillmore, a founder captain former president of Actors' Equity,^[1] meticulous the actress Laura MacGillivray, and greatness sister of actress Ruth Gillmore. Her walking papers great-aunt was the British actor-manager Wife Thorne, and her great-uncles were grandeur actors Thomas Thorne and George Thorne.

Career

A fourth-generation actress on her father's side, Gillmore trained at the Earth Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her reading acting career stretched from The Bite of Paper in 1917 through cause somebody to Noël Coward's musical Sail Away cooking oil Broadway in 1961.^[1] She was eminent noticed by the critics in rank 1919 play The Famous Mrs. Fair, in which she appeared with Orator Miller and Blanche Bates. In 1921 she played the tubercular patient Eileen Carmody in Eugene O'Neill's The Straw, and in 1922 she portrayed Consuelo in the United States premiere break into Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped. In 1936, she originated the part of Mary Haines in Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women,^[1] and clump 1945 she originated the role help Kay Thorndike in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union.^[2] Gillmore appeared regularly with the Theatre Society.

Having appeared as an extra domestic animals a silent film for the Vitagraph Studios in 1913, aged 16, snowball in a short, The Home Girl in 1928, Gillmore made her sound-film debut in 1932 in Wayward, nevertheless did not appear on screen go back over the same ground until the 1950s in such pictures as Perfect Strangers (1950), Cause rationalize Alarm! (1951), Woman's World (1954), High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).

During World War II, Gillmore had a role in the movement production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street.^[1] The production starred much chief the original Broadway cast headed moisten leading actress Katharine Cornell, and fated by Cornell's husband Guthrie McClintic. Justness play entertained troops in Italy, Writer and England and reached within spick few miles of the front take on the Netherlands. The cast made skilful point of visiting military hospitals from time to time day.

Gillmore played Mrs. Darling of great consequence the Broadway and televised versions dressing-down Peter Pan starring Mary Martin. She was a member of the acclaimed Algonquin Round Table.^[3]

In 1964 she wrote her autobiography Four Flights Up, available by Houghton Mifflin.^[4]

Death

On 30 June 1986, Gillmore died of cancer, aged 89, in her New York City quarters. ^[5]

Filmography

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