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Margaret O'Brien
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Actor Born: January 15, 1937 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Thanks to the strenous efforts of her mother, a former dancer, American child actress "Margaret O'Brien" won her first film role at age four in the "Mickey Rooney"-"Judy Garland" musical "Babes on Broadway" (1941). MGM was so impressed by the child's expressiveness and emotional range that she was given the title role in the wartime morale-booster "Journey For Margaret" (1942). She was so camera-savvy by the time she appeared in "Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case" (1943) that the film's star "Lionel Barrymore" declared that had this been the Middle Ages, O'Brien would have been burned at the stake! Some of her coworkers may secretly have wished that fate on O'Brien, since she reportedly flaunted her celebrity on the set, ostensibly at the encouragement of her parents. Famed for her crying scenes, O'Brien really let the faucets flow in her best film, "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), in which her character... Full Biography
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