Margaret Irving

Margaret Irving was an American actress of stage and film. Born in Pittsburgh in 1898, she appeared on Broadway in Jack O'Lantern in 1917 and then in the Ziegfeld Follies revues of 1919 and 1920. She appeared in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue and, in the late 1920s, played Clementina in the original Broadway run of Sigmund Romberg's The Desert Song, which lasted 471 performances. She went on to appear onstage as Mrs. Whitehead in Animal Crackers with the Marx Brothers and repeated that part in the 1930 film version. During the 1930s she acted more frequently in movies, including San Francisco (1936), Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), and the 1939 film Mr. Moto's Last Warning. On television she was Aunt Gus in The People's Choice, a 1950s sitcom. Her later stage credits included the musical Hold On to Your Hats and the play Happy Birthday; her last film was Ain't Misbehavin' in 1955. She died in 1988.