Margaret O'Brien Trivia

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Born in San Diego, California, USA (imdb.com)

For her role as Beth in "Little Women", she worked again with Mary Astor, who played the part of Marmee, her mother. Astor was also her mother in "Meet Me in St. Louis". In this film she also worked again with Harry Davenport, who played the part of Dr. Barnes, and who played her grandfather in "Meet Me In St. Louis". (imdb.com)

Stated on TMC`s Private Screenings: Child Stars that she is half Spanish. (imdb.com)

In Italy, almost of her films were dubbed by Loredana Randisi. (imdb.com)

In April 2006, O`Brien was presented with one of the first two Lifetime Achievement Awards ever awarded by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University. (Celeste Holm received the other.) (imdb.com)

Measurements: 33-21-34 (at age 18), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) (imdb.com)

In 1959, Ms. O`Brien starred in a national stage tour of "The Young And The Beautiful" by author Sally Benson (creator of the book that became O`Brien`s most famous film, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)). Co-starring opposite O`Brien in the stage play of "The Young And The Beautiful" was Dirk Wayne Summers, who later became an award winning writer and director in films and television. (imdb.com)

Gave birth to her only child, daughter Mara Tolene Thorsen, in 1977. (imdb.com)

Her special Academy Award as Outstanding Juvenile Performer for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) was stolen and she was unable to regain it for nearly fifty years when two antique collectors came across it in an antique shop and managed to give it back to O`Brien. (imdb.com)

In a practice common among child actors at the time, O`Brien adopted as her professional first name the she name of the character who was her first credited part in Journey for Margaret (1942). (imdb.com)

So skillful but natural was this young actress that when called upon by a certain director to gush some tears, she quite innocently asked: "When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way down, or should I stop them halfway down?" (imdb.com)

Received the Women`s International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1996. (imdb.com)

Spouse: Roy Thorsen (8 June 1974 - present) 1 child; Harold Allen, Jr. (1959 - 1968) (imdb.com)