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Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (May 31, 1897, London, England – June 30, 1986, New York, New York) was an English American film, stage and television actress.
Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, former president of Actors' Equity, and the actress Laura MacGillivray, and the sister of actress Ruth Gillmore. Her great-aunt was the British actor-manager Sarah Thorne, and her great-uncles were the actors Thomas Thorne and George Thorne.
A fourth-generation actor on her father's side, she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her long stage acting career stretched... MORE
Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (May 31, 1897, London, England – June 30, 1986, New York, New York) was an English American film, stage and television actress.
Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, former president of Actors' Equity, and the actress Laura MacGillivray, and the sister of actress Ruth Gillmore. Her great-aunt was the British actor-manager Sarah Thorne, and her great-uncles were the actors Thomas Thorne and George Thorne.
A fourth-generation actor on her father's side, she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her long 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. Gillmore appeared regularly with the Theatre Guild.
Having appeared as an extra in a silent movie 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 didn't appear on screen again until the LESS
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