
Birthday:
09-03-1872
Deathday:
04-01-1956 (83 years)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Margaret McWade (born Margaret May Fish; September 3, 1871 – April 1, 1956) was an American stage and film actress. She began her career in vaudeville in the early 1890s. Her most memorable role was as one of the Pixilated Sisters, a comedic stage act with actress Margaret Seddon. Later in 1936, she reprised her roles in the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
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The Lost World
Act like Mrs. Challenger
event1925 star_border 6.7
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The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Scattergood Survives a Murder
Act like Lydia Quentin
event1942 star_border 4.5
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Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Act like Amy Faulkner (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
High Steppers
Act like Mrs. Clancy
event1926
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Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
The Ne'er to Return Road
Act like The Mother
event1921
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A mother is waiting for her boy, not knowing that he is dead. An escaped convict falls exhausted at her door, and she gives him food and drink while the story is told, in flashback, of how he committed his crime. An unfaithful wife, a bar room, a dude and self-defense; these were the elements that made him a convict. The mother learns that it was her boy that he killed. Although the mother helps him to escape, the prison officials capture him.
White Fang
Act like Mrs. Black
event1925
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Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
Broken Barriers
Act like Mrs. Durland
event1924 star_border 1
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A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
The Bishop's Wife
Act like Miss Trumbull
event1947 star_border 7
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An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Act like Calvus' Wife (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.6
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In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Lost Horizon
Act like Missionary (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Act like Younger Sister (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.3
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Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
It's a Joke, Son!
Act like Jennifer Whipple
event1947 star_border 6.9
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Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
Danger – Love at Work
Act like Aunt Patty Pemberton
event1937 star_border 7.3
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A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Sundown
Act like Mrs. Brent
event1924
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Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Blue Jeans
Act like Cindy Tutwiler
event1917 star_border 5.5
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June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.
A Tale of Two Worlds
Act like Attendant
event1921 star_border 5.5
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A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
The Blot
Act like Mrs. Griggs
event1921 star_border 6.4
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Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
Theodora Goes Wild
Act like Aunt Elsie
event1936 star_border 6.6
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The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
We Have Our Moments
Act like Woman in Stateroom
event1937 star_border 5.8
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A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Wings Over Honolulu
Act like Nellie Curtis
event1937 star_border 5.3
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A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Postal Inspector
Act like Old Maid - Mrs. Compton (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Women Who Dare
Act like Mrs. Kelly
event1928
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Film directed by Burton L. King
It Should Happen to You
Act like Elderly Lady at Macy's (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.9
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Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Remedy for Riches
Act like Gertrude Purdy
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Forbidden Valley
Act like Mrs. Scudd
event1938 star_border 6
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
The Confession
Act like Mrs. Bartlett
event1920 star_border 5
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A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.
I Stole a Million
Act like Matron (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
The Remarkable Andrew
Act like Mrs. Ballard
event1942 star_border 8.2
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When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Stronger Than Death
Act like Mrs. Boucicault
event1920
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Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
Her Mad Bargain
Act like Mrs. Dunn
event1921
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After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresford's jealous niece; and in despair Alice seeks employment as a model. Her refusal to accept the attentions of Monsieur Armand ends in her dismissal
The President’s Special
Act like The Floor Switchman's Wife
event1914
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John Farley and his wife were in very comfortable circumstances. They owned their own little farm and, as a result, were able to live very nicely on John's income as a railroad switchman, and to put money in the bank as well. The one great drawback to the farm, was the fact that it was so far from the tower in which John worked.
The White Mouse
Act like The Mother
event1921
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Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into Canada. The ring is led by Ah Ming, a "half-breed" who goes by the name of Dr. Lawler. When Blake encounters Lawler, he is experimenting on a white mouse.
Flower of the Dusk
Act like Miriam
event1918
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Blind Ambrose North is tormented by the suspicion that his wife Constance committed suicide when their crippled daughter Barbara was only two, because she did not love him. Before her death, Constance wrote Barbara a letter to be opened on the girl's twenty-first birthday, but when Barbara opens it and learns that her mother killed herself to escape a doomed love affair with Lawrence Austin, she invents a different story for Ambrose, knowing that the truth would hurt him too deeply.
Let's Make a Million
Act like Aunt Lacy
event1936
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A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Darling Mine
Act like Agnes McCarthy
event1920
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Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from Ireland to New York City, there she meets Gordon Davis, a successful playwright, who directs her to her aunt's address on the East Side. Kitty soon discovers her aunt living in a tenement, a confirmed alcoholic. Through her niece's care, Agnes is cured, and one day Davis appears and offers Kitty a part in a comedy that he has written. She accepts, and once backstage meets Vera Maxwell, the victim of an unhappy affair with Oscar Savoy. Kitty brings the lovelorn couple back together but is unsuccessful in arranging her own romance with Davis' nephew Roger until Davis finally intervenes, and a happy ending prevails for all.
The Painted Lady
Act like Mrs. Smith
event1924
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After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to become a woman of easy virtue, and on an excursion to a South Sea isle she meets Luther Smith, a sailor seeking vengeance for the death of his sister. She feels unworthy of his love, but their paths cross again when he rescues her from Captain Sutton, the man responsible for the other girl's tragedy. This film is lost.
Alice Adams
Act like Mrs. Adams
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Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
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