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Acting

Margalo Gillmore

Born
May 30, 1897 · Aged 89
Died
Jun 30, 1986
Place of birth
London, England, UK
Gender
Female
Movie credits
20
TV credits
1
Also known as (2)
  • Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore
  • Margaret Lorraine Gillmore

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A fourth-generation actor on her father's side, she 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, 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 originated the role of Kay Thorndike in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the…