Margalo Gillmore
Biography
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American actress whose career centered on the Broadway stage. Born in London and trained for the stage at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she came from a family of actors on her father's side. Her stage work ran from The Scrap of Paper in 1917 to Noel Coward's Sail Away in 1961, and critics first noticed her in the 1919 play The Famous Mrs. Fair. She created the part of Mary Haines in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women in 1936 and was the first Kay Thorndyke in the Pulitzer Prize-winning State of the Union in 1945. After her 1932 sound debut in Wayward, she returned to the screen in the 1950s with films including Cause for Alarm! (1951), Woman's World (1954) and High Society (1956). She was Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan on Broadway and on television, and in 1964 she published Four Flights Up, an autobiography. She died in 1986.
89years old at death
- Born London
- Died Manhattan
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 15 years1951 to 1966
Every film, newest first
- 1966The Trouble with AngelsIMDb rating 7.3
- 1956High SocietyIMDb rating 6.9
- 1954Woman's WorldIMDb rating 6.9
- 1951Cause for Alarm!IMDb rating 6.4
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A first
In 1936, Gillmore was the first to play Mary Haines in Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women. She also originated the part of Kay Thorndyke in 1945 in State of the Union, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
First role
Gillmore was an extra in a silent movie for Vitagraph Studios in 1913, at age 16, and she first appeared in a sound film in 1932 in Wayward.
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Worked with
Margalo Gillmore shares two films with Paul Bradley, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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