Margaret O’Brien is an American film, radio, television, and stage actress. She began a prolific career as a child actress in feature films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the age of four. In her later career, she appeared on television, on stage, and in supporting film roles.
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Margaret O’Brien is an American film, radio, television, and stage actress. She began a prolific career as a child actress in feature films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the age of four. She was honored with a Juvenile Academy Award as the outstanding child actress of 1944. In her later career, she appeared on television, on stage, and in supporting film roles. Her most memorable role was in Meet Me in St. Louis, opposite Judy Garland. She later shed her child star image in 1958 by appearing on the cover of Life magazine with the caption ‘The Girl’s Grown’ and was a mystery guest on the TV panel show What’s My Line? As an adult, she has been sporadic, mostly in small independent films and occasional television roles. She has also given interviews, mostly for the Turner Classic Movies cable network.
She gave credit to television for helping her reform and modify her public image. She is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry. Her name was later changed following the success of the film Journey for Margaret, in which she played the title role. She played Beth in the 1949 MGM release of Little Women, but she was unable to make the transition to adult roles. In 1967, she made a two-part episode of World War II drama Ironside. Also, in 1968, she played a pharmacist who was involved in drug theft and attempted murder of Raymond Burr’s M.A.S.H. character. She appeared in an episode of Wagon Train in a 1963 episode of Perry Mason as Trent Shoe in the Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe! In the early 1970s, she was a guest star on the popular television show Welby D. M. D.
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