Margaret Brainard Hamilton was an American film character actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West, and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film The Wizard of Oz. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials.
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Margaret Brainard Hamilton was an American film character actress. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West, and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals. Hamilton was born in Cleveland, the youngest of four children of Walter J. Hamilton and his wife, Mary Jane. She attended Hathaway Brown School while the school was at 1945 East 93rd Street in Cleveland. Hamilton made her amateur stage debut in 1923. She later moved to Painesville, Ohio. She appeared regularly in supporting roles in films until the early 1950s and sporadically thereafter. Hamilton costarred opposite Buster Keaton and Richard Cromwell in a 1940s spoof of the long-running local melodrama The Drunkard, titled The Villain Still Pursued Her. Later in the decade, she was in a little-known film noir, titled Bungalow 13, in which she again costarring opposite Cromwell. She went on to appear in These Three, Saratoga, You Only Live Once, When’s Your Birthday?, Nothing Sacred, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, My Little Chickadee, and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock.
She later became a kindergarten teacher. She died in a car accident in 1998. She suffered a second-degree burn on her face and a third-degreeBurn on her hand during a second take of her fiery exit from Munchkinland in which the trap door’s drop was delayed to eliminate the brief glimpse of it seen in the final edit. Her crisp voice with rapid but clear enunciation was another trademark. She never put herself under contract to any one studio and priced her services at USD 1,000 ) a week. In one interview, she would comment on the role of the witch in a light-hearted fashion: “I was in need of money at the time, I had done six pictures for six pictures! Later in life, she joked about the time she had done for MGM. I will never work again on one condition – no more fireworks! I will return to work on one Condition! I have done one condition: I will not work on any more fireworks!” She was a lifelong supporter of public education and retained a lifelong commitment to public education. Hamilton’s looks helped to bring steady work as aCharacter actor. She appeared, uncredited, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s People Will Talk as Sarah Pickett. In 1960, producerdirector William Castle cast Hamilton as a housekeeper in his 13 Ghosts horror film, in which 12-year-old lead Charles Herbert’s character taunts her about being a witch, including the final scene, in where she is holding a broom in her hand.
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