Janet Margolin

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Janet Margolin
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Born:
July 25, 1943 in New York City, NY
Death:
December 17, 1993 in Los Angeles, CA
Biography:Fresh out of New York's High School of Performing Arts, doe-eyed actress "Janet Margolin" was cast as an emotionally disturbed teenager in the Broadway production Daughter of Silence. Though the play didn't last long, Margolin's performance won her the similar role of a schizophrenic girl who speaks only in backward rhymes in the 1962 film "David and Lisa". This award-winning assignment proved to be the high point of Margolin's career; most of her later roles (Mary of Bethany in 1965's "The Greatest Story Ever Told", "Gina Lollobrigida"'s daughter in 1968's "Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell" etc.) made but minimal demands on her acting skills. Better opportunities came her way in a brace of "Woody Allen" films, "Take the Money and Run" (1969) and "Annie Hall" (1977). On TV, "Janet Margolin" co-starred in the 1975 detective series "Lanigan's Rabbi". "Janet Margolin" died of ovarian cancer at the age of 50; she... Full Biography
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