Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (31 May 1897 â€" 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.Gillmore was the daughter of Frank
Gillmore, a founder and 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, Gillmore trained at the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her 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, in which she appeared with Henry
Miller and Blanche Bates. In 1921 she played the tubercular patient
Eileen Carmody in Eugene O'Neill's The Straw. In 1936, she originated
the role of Mary Haines in Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women, and in
1945 she originated 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 sound-film debut in 1932 in Wayward,
but did not appear on screen again until the 1950s in such films as
Perfect Strangers (1950), Cause for Alarm! (1951), Woman's World
(1954), High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).
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.Gillmore was the daughter of Frank
Gillmore, a founder and 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, Gillmore trained at the
American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her 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, in which she appeared with Henry
Miller and Blanche Bates. In 1921 she played the tubercular patient
Eileen Carmody in Eugene O'Neill's The Straw. In 1936, she originated
the role of Mary Haines in Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women, and in
1945 she originated 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 sound-film debut in 1932 in Wayward,
but did not appear on screen again until the 1950s in such films as
Perfect Strangers (1950), Cause for Alarm! (1951), Woman's World
(1954), High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).
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