Margalo Gillmore
Nacimiento : 1897-05-31, London, England, UK
Muerte : 1986-06-30
Historia
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A fourth-generation actor on her father's side, she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her stage acting career stretched from The Scrap of Paper in 1917 through to Noël Coward's musical Sail Away on Broadway in 1961. She was first noticed by the critics in the 1919 play The Famous Mrs. Fair, which she appeared in with Henry Miller and Blanche Bates. In 1921 she played the tubercular patient Eileen Carmody in Eugene O'Neill's The Straw, and in 1945 she originated the role of Kay Thorndike in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union. Gillmore appeared regularly with the Theatre Guild.
Having appeared as an extra in a silent film for the Vitagraph Studios in 1913 aged 16, and in a short, The Home Girl in 1928, Gillmore made her film debut in a major role in 1932 in Wayward, but did not appear on screen again until the 1950s in such films as Cause for Alarm!, Perfect Strangers, High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).
During World War II, Gillmore had a role in the traveling production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. The production starred much of the original Broadway cast headed by leading actress Katharine Cornell, and directed by Cornell's husband Guthrie McClintic. The play entertained troops in Italy, France and England and reached within a few miles of the front in the Netherlands, and the cast made a point of visiting military hospitals every day.
She played Mrs. Darling in the Broadway and televised versions of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin. She was a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table.
On 30 June 1986, Gillmore died of cancer, aged 89. Her remains were interred in Aaron Cemetery, Walker County, Alabama.
Herself - Participant
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Sister Barbara
Dos muchachas que viajan con destino a un internado se conocen durante el viaje en tren. Rápidamente se hacen muy amigas debido a la afinidad de caracteres y una vez en el colegio siembran el desconcierto por todos lados. No obstante, la madre superiora, con paciencia y bondad, conseguirá hacer de ellas dos alumnas ejemplares. Pero antes ya habrán protagonizado muchas travesuras.
Mrs. Darling
In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael and John Darling. With a sprinkling of pixie dust, Peter and his new friends fly out the nursery window and over London to Never-Never Land. The children experience many wonderful and exciting adventures with the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily's Indian tribe, and Peter's arch enemy the dastardly pirate Captain Hook.
Mrs. McGuffey
Comedia picarona sobre las peripecias de Michael Craig y la hija de su jefe.
Mrs. Seth Lord
Tracy va a contraer matrimonio por segunda vez. Sin embargo, su primer marido se da cuenta de que sigue locamente enamorado de ella e intenta conseguir que vuelva a su lado. Remake de la mítica 'Historias de Filadelfia', adornada con un espléndido reparto y las canciones de Bing Crosby
Mrs. Helen Carrington
A ballerina resorts to prostitution when her fiance is reported killed in World War II.
Mrs. Darling
This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the same cast, it nevertheless is its own unique performance which charmed millions of households in 1956.
Mrs. Darling
This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on March 7, 1955. It was so popular that it was restaged the following year, and again four years later.
Mrs. Evelyn Andrews
Lo que al principio debía ser una rutinaria elección para ocupar un puesto vacante como director general de una importante firma neoyorquina, se convierte en un auténtico reto para tres candidatos: Jerry Talbot, Billa Baxter y Sydney Burns.
Alice Hanover
Un matrimonio de protestantes adoptan a una muchacha católica huérfana. A pesar de algunos problemas iniciales, la niña acabará calando hondo en el matrimonio. El problema viene cuando, por cuestiones políticas, el futuro de la muchacha se ve amenazado.
Stauton
Tres señoritas se inscriben en una especie de entrenamiento en una base naval. Sin embargo, su mayor problema no son las largas marchas o varias semanas en un barco pequeño, sino su vida amorosa.
Claire Osborne
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
Kate's Mother
Un perro, amaestrado para poner en contacto a una banda de contrabandistas con otra de falsificadores, va a parar por la circunstancia casual de una chocolatina al domicilio de los recién casados William y Catherine Dennis. Tal cosa ocurre precisamente el día que esta pareja celebra el segundo aniversario de su boda, razón por la que Catherine cree que el chucho es un obsequio de su marido. A no ser por el perro, y porque la suegra de William vive con ellos, la vida conyugal de la pareja hubiera sido muy feliz; pero ni la mamá política fomenta a paz matrimonial ni el advenedizo perro permite las expansiones amorosas de los esposos.
Cora Caighn
Londres, a principios de siglo. Jane Hoskins (Garson) ha trabajado la mayor parte de su vida como ama de llaves y actualmente es empleada por lord Minden y su altiva esposa lady Sybil Minden. El hermano gemelo de lord Minden, Nigel (Michael Wilding) recibió solo diez mil libras de herencia, frente a los cinco millones de su hermano gemelo, solo porque su hermano nació cinco minutos antes que él y, en consecuencia, es el hermano mayor a los ojos de la ley. Después de malgastar su dinero, Nigel se cuela en la casa de su hermano y roba los pendientes de lady Minden. Lady Minden acusa a su criada Jane del robo hasta que Nigel da un paso adelante y se responsabiliza. Jane, enojada porque lady Minden la acusó injustamente de robo, decide renunciar a su trabajo.
Mrs. Edwards
George Jones es un hombre que se encuentra inválido en una silla de ruedas y que padece también trastornos psicológicos. Además, está obsesionado con la idea de que su mujer Ellen está teniendo una relación adúltera con el médico que le atiende y que ambos planean matarle.
Maude Stover
A finales del siglo pasado, una familia tiene dificultades para hacerse cargo de la educación de un hijo problemático y difícil, por lo que deciden mandarlo a una escuela tan rígida que al chico le costará muchísimo adaptarse al severo régimen de conducta imperante.
Isobel Bradford
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.
Louisa Daniels
Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.
A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.
