Margaret Irving

Margaret Irving

Birth : 1898-01-18,

Death : 1988-03-05

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Margaret Irving

Movies

Ain't Misbehavin'
Mrs. Grumbacher (uncredited)
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
The Beautiful Cheat
Olympia Haven
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
In Society
Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Madame Delacour
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
Kentucky
Woman with Man at Race Track
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Love, Honor and Behave
Nan Bowleigh
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
The Baroness and the Butler
Countess Olga
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Little Miss Roughneck
Mrs. Gertrude 'Gert' LaRue
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Sh! The Octopus
Polly Crane
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
Under Suspicion
Laura Walters
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Mrs. Cunningham
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The Duchess
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Men in Exile
Mother Haines
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Mme. Lilli Rochelle
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Four Days Wonder
Aunt Jessica
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
Captain Calamity
Mamie Gruen
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
Follow Your Heart
Louise Masetti
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
Women Are Trouble
Frances Blaine
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
San Francisco
Della Bailey
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Wife vs. Secretary
Edna Wilson (uncredited)
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
Exclusive Story
Mrs. Higgins
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
I Married a Doctor
Maude Dyer
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Thanks a Million
Mrs. Kruger
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
Animal Crackers
Mrs. Whitehead
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
The Man from M.A.R.S.
Mary Langdon
An inventor makes contact with Mars via television. The film is notable for using the 3-D process called Teleview, similar to today's alternating frame 3-D systems. Shown in 3-D only at the Selwyn Theater in New York City, it was previewed as Mars Calling at a trade and press screening on 13 October 1922, premiered as M.A.R.S. on 27 December 1922, and ran through 20 January 1923. A 2-D version was distributed as Radio-Mania in 1923–1924.