Margaret O'Brien Biography

Fast Facts

• Received a Juvenile Academy Award in 1944 for her work as a child actress
• In 2006, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass
• Received the Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award from the Young Artist Foundation in 1990
• In 1996, she received the Women's International Center's Living Legacy Award
• She has been honored with two different stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for film and the other for TV
• Her father, a circus performer, passed away before she was born
• Her mother, Gladys Flores, was a prominent flamenco dancer
• Was married to Harold Allen, Jr․, from 1959 to 1968
• Has one child, Mara Tolene Thorsen, with former husband Roy Thorsen
• Her first film appearance was in 1941's "Babes on Broadway․"
• Quote: "(At the time, six-year-old Margaret O'Brien asked of her director) "When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?""
• Enjoyed a prolific career one of Hollywood's most esteemed child actors during the 1940s and '50s
• Born Angela Maxine O'Brien, she changed her stage name after playing the titular character in "Journey for Margaret," a movie which contributed to her early fame