Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film actress, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history.
She was born as Angela Maxine O'Brien. Her father, a circus performer, died months after her birth; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestr...
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Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film actress, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history.
She was born as Angela Maxine O'Brien. Her father, a circus performer, died months after her birth; Margaret's mother, Gladys Flores, was a well-known flamenco dancer who often performed with her sister Marissa, also a dancer. Margaret is of half-Irish and half-Spanish ancestry.
She made her first film appearance in Babes on Broadway (1941) at the age of four, but it was the following year that her first major role brought her widespread attention. As a five-year-old in Journey for Margaret (1942), O'Brien won wide praise for her convincing acting style. By 1943, she was considered a big enough star to have a cameo appearance in the all-star military show finale of Thousands Cheer.
She played a young French girl, and spoke and sang all her dialogue with a French accent, in Jane Eyre (1944). Arguably her most...
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