Margaret O'Brien Biography

Fast Facts

• Is half-Irish, half-Spanish
• Because of her ability to shed tears practically on cue, she was known on the MGM lot as one of the "Town Criers
• " June Allyson was the other
• Her first name was legally changed to Margaret after the success of her 1942 film Journey for Margaret
• Received an honorary Juvenile Academy Award as Outstanding Child Actress of 1944
• The statuette went missing from her home in 1954, and efforts to find it were unsuccessful until years later when two memorabilia collectors stumbled upon it at an auction
• They purchased it and it was returned to her in 1995
• Almost didn't do 1944's Meet Me in St
• Louis because of a salary dispute with Louis B
• Mayer
• Was confirmed and made her first Holy Communion with Marlo Thomas
• Lost out on doing the lead voice role in the animated Alice in Wonderland (1951) when her mother angered Walt Disney and he gave the part to Kathryn Beaumont
• Hoped to make the transition from child star to young actress and campaigned to play the role of Judy in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause
• The part went to Natalie Wood
• Appeared on the cover of Life magazine in 1958