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Margalo Gillmore

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Actor 1897–1986 On stage 19181961

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.

On stage 38 productions, 43 years

1918 April Punch And Judy Theatre · Original · directed by Oscar Eagle 31 perf.
1918 Her Honor, the Mayor Fulton Theatre · Original · directed by George Henry Trader 16 perf.
1919 The Famous Mrs. Fair Henry Millers Theatre · Original 183 perf.
1919 Up from Nowhere Comedy Theatre · Original 40 perf.
1921 Alias Jimmy Valentine Gaiety Theatre · Revival · directed by Hugh Ford 46 perf.
1921 The Straw Greenwich Village Theatre · Original 20 perf.
1922 He Who Gets Slapped Garrick Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Milton 308 perf.
1922 The Romantic Age Comedy Theatre · Original 31 perf.
1923 As You Like It 48th Street Theatre · Revival 8 perf.
1923 Scaramouche Morosco Theatre · Original 61 perf.
1924 Hedda Gabler 48th Street Theatre · Revival · directed by Robert Edmond Jones 8 perf.
1924 Outward Bound Ritz Theatre · Original 144 perf.
1924 The Far Cry Cort Theatre · Original 31 perf.
1924 The Habitual Husband 48th Street Theatre · Original · directed by Dudley Digges 12 perf.
1925 The Green Hat Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Guthrie McClintic 231 perf.
1926 Juarez and Maximilian Guild Theatre · Original · directed by Philip Moeller 48 perf.
1926 Little Eyolf Guild Theatre · Revival 8 perf.
1926 Ned McCobb's Daughter John Golden Theatre · Original · directed by Philip Moeller 156 perf.
1926 The Silver Cord John Golden Theatre · Original · directed by John Cromwell 112 perf.
1927 The Doctor's Dilemma Guild Theatre · Revival · directed by Dudley Digges 115 perf.
1927 The Second Man Guild Theatre · Original 178 perf.
1928 Marco Millions Guild Theatre · Original · directed by Rouben Mamoulian 92 perf.
1928 Volpone Guild Theatre · Original · directed by Philip Moeller 46 perf.
1929 Berkeley Square Lyceum Theatre · Original 229 perf.
1929 Man's Estate Biltmore Theatre · Original · directed by Dudley Digges 48 perf.
1930 The Little Father of the Wilderness Empire Theatre · Revival 8 perf.
1931 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Empire Theatre · Original · directed by Guthrie McClintic 370 perf.
1933 The Dark Tower Morosco Theatre · Original 57 perf.
1934 Valley Forge Guild Theatre · Original · directed by Herbert J. Biberman 58 perf.
1935 Flowers of the Forest Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Auriol Lee 40 perf.
1935 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by Guthrie McClintic 24 perf.
1936 The Women Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Robert B. Sinclair 657 perf.
1943 Outrageous Fortune 48th Street Theatre · Original 77 perf.
1945 State of the Union Hudson Theatre · Original · directed by Bretaigne Windust 765 perf.
1953 Kind Sir Alvin Theatre · Original 166 perf.
1954 Peter Pan Winter Garden · Revival · directed by Jerome Robbins 152 perf.
1955 The Diary of Anne Frank Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Garson Kanin 717 perf.
1961 Sail Away! Broadhurst · Original · directed by Noel Coward 167 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Alfred Lunt 7 productions
Philip Leigh 6 productions
Morris Carnovsky 5 productions
Earle Larimore 5 productions
Dudley Digges 5 productions
Sanford Meisner 4 productions
Henry Travers 4 productions
Ernest Cossart 4 productions
Clare Eames 4 productions
Charles Romano 4 productions
Philip Loeb 3 productions
Louis Veda 3 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast : Kathy Nolan (Wendy, Jane), Robert Harrington (John), Heller Halliday (Liza), Joseph Stafford (Michael), Norman Shelly (Nana, Crocodile), Margalo Gillmore (Mrs. Darling), Cyril Ritchard (Mr. Darling, Captain Hook); Mary Martin (Peter Pan), Richard Wyatt (Lion), Don Lurio (Kangaroo), Joan Tewkesbury (Ostrich), David Bean (Slightly),…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Mary Martin, Cyril Ritchard, Kathy Nolan, Margalo Gillmore, Joe E. Marks, Sondra Lee, Joseph Stafford, Robert Harringtonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Finally, in 1960, NBC brought everyone into the studio a third time, with Lynn Fontanne as narrator and Margalo Gillmore as Mrs. Darling, and this time preserved the performance on tape. This version was rebroadcast in 1963, 1966, and 1973 but then was apparently lost. Rediscovered and remastered in the late 1980s. This version is availab…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • Pauline Lord in “Night Lodging” and Frank McGlynn in “Abraham Lincoln.” Blanche Bates, Margalo Gillmore and Henry Miller were in “The Famous Mrs. Fair,” Janet Beecher, Lowell Sherman and Gail Kane in “The Woman in Room 13,” Doris Kenyon, Charles Ruggles, John Cumberland and Zelda Sears in “The Girl in the Limousine,” Thurston Hall, Glenn…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • GREY, HELEN MacKELLAR, FRANCINE LARRIMORE, HERNE, MARGALO GILLMORE, BLANCHE RING.theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • EUGENE POWERS, BERYL MERCER, CHARLOTTE GRANVILLE, LYONEL WATTS, ALFRED LUNT, LESLIE HOWARD, MARGALO GILLMORE in “OUTWARD BOUND”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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