Margalo Gillmore
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Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (31 May 1897 – 30 June 1986) was an English-born American actress who had a long career as a stage actress on Broadway.
She also appeared in films and TV series, mostly in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Career
Gillmore, a fourth-generation actress on her father's side, attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She appeared on stage from The Scrap of Paper in 1917 to No.l Coward's musical Sail Away on Broadway in 1961. She was first noticed by the critics in the 1919 play The Famous Mrs. Fair, in which she appeared with Henry Miller and Blanche Bates. In 1921, she appeared in Eugene O'Neill's The Straw's Teta, and in 1922 she portrayed Consuelo in Leonid Andev's He Who Gets Slapped's premiere. She appeared in Mary Haines' film The Women in Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 production The Women, and in 1945 she starred Kay Thorndike in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union. Gillmore appeared onstage with the Theatre Guild on a daily basis.
Gillmore made her sound-film debut in 1913, aged 16, in a short, The Home Girl (1950), Cause for Fear, 1951. (1951) Woman's World (1954), High Society (1956), and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).
Gillmore was involved in the traveling production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street during World War II. The production starred much of the original Broadway cast led by Katharine Cornell and directed by Cornell's husband Guthrie McClintic. Troops in Italy, France, and England were entertained, and they were within a few miles of the front in the Netherlands. The cast made a point of going to military hospitals every day.
Mrs. Gillmore played Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan's Broadway and televised versions starring Mary Martin. She was a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table.
Four Flights Up, her autobiography, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1964.
