Star Facts
  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 6606 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

  • Category Television

    Address 1634 Vine Street

    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Margaret O'Brien
Born:
1937-01-15,
San Diego,
California,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Margaret O'Brien

Margaret O'Brien 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. Her father, a circus performer, died months after her birth; 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 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, 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. Arguably her most memorable role was as "Tootie" in Meet Me in St. Louis, 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, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, and the first sound version of The Secret Garden, but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles.

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