Margalo Gillmore
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| Born |
Margaret Lorraine Gillmore 31 May 1897 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 30 June 1986 (aged 89) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Resting place | Aaron Cemetery |
| Alma mater | American Academy of Dramatic Arts |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1917-1966 |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Ross (m. 1935; d. 1954) |
| Parent(s) |
Frank Gilmore Laura Gilmore |
| Relatives |
Sarah Thorne (great aunt) Thomas Thorne (great uncle) George Thorne (great uncle) |
Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (31 May 1897 – 30 June 1986) was an English-born 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 and in 1945 she orgininated 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 didn't appear on screen again until the 1950s, in such films as Cause for Alarm!, Perfect Strangers, High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).
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