Margalo Gillmore

Margalo Gillmore
Born	Margaret Lorraine Gillmore May 31, 1897(1897-05-31) London, England, U.K.
Died	June 30, 1986(1986-06-30) (aged 89) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1917–1966
Spouse	Robert Ross (19??-1954; his death)

Margaret Lorraine "Margalo" Gillmore (May 31, 1897, London, England – June 30, 1986, New York City, 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 1950s, in such films as Cause for Alarm!, Perfect Strangers, High Society (1956) and Upstairs and Downstairs (1959).

During World War II. Gillmore had a role in the traveling production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street. The production starred much of the original Broadway cast, headed by leading actress Katharine Cornell, and directed by Cornell's husband, Guthrie McClintic. The play entertained troupes in Italy, France and England and even reached within a few miles of the front in Holland, and the cast made a point of visiting military hospitals every day.

Television audiences may remember her as Mrs. Darling in the Broadway and televised versions of Peter Pan, which starred Mary Martin. She was a member of the famous Algonquin Round Table.

Margalo Gillmore died of cancer, aged 89. Her remains were interred in Aaron Cemetery, Walker County, Alabama.^[1]

References

1. ^ Los Angeles Times obituary

Sources

• "Margalo Gillmore, An Actress on the Stage and on Screen", The New York Times, July 2, 1986
• Members of the Algonquin Round Table

External links

• Margalo Gillmore at the Internet Broadway Database
• Margalo Gillmore at the Internet Movie Database
• Margalo Gillmore photos and biography

Persondata
Name	Gillmore, Margalo
Alternative names
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	May 31, 1897
Place of birth	London, England, U.S.
Date of death	June 30, 1986 (aged 89)
Place of death	New York City, New York, U.S.