Margo

Margo was a Mexican actress and dancer who trained as a dancer as a child and began performing professionally in Mexican nightclubs. Born in Mexico City in 1917, she moved to the United States as a child and was living in New York City when she was spotted by producer Ben Hecht and screenwriter Charles MacArthur; they cast her as the lead in Crime Without Passion. She played Miriamne Esdras on stage and in the 1936 film Winterset, and her 1930s work included Lost Horizon (1937) and Broadway productions of Maxwell Anderson's The Masque of Kings and Sidney Kingsley's The World We Make. Later films included The Leopard Man (1943) and Viva Zapata! (1952), along with I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955). On television, she appeared in a 1964 episode of Rawhide, and her stage credits also included Tanyard Street and A Bell for Adano.