Margalo gilmore biography definition

American actress (1897–1986)

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.

Family

Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, a founder and former president of Actors' Equity,^[1] 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.

Career

A fourth-generation actress 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.^[1] She was first noticed by the critics in the 1919 play The Famous Mrs.

Fair, in which she appeared with Henry Mi