
Birthday:
10-07-1885
Deathday:
12-15-1961 (76 years)
Birthplace:
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Biography
Margaret Armstrong (born Winifred Margaret Atwell) was an American stage and screen actress.
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Ann Vickers
Act like Miss Jones (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.9
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After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Annie Oakley
Act like Mrs. Oakley
event1935 star_border 6.4
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Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Women in Prison
Act like Mrs. Tatum
event1938 star_border 6
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The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Act like Martha
event1934 star_border 4.7
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An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Walking Back Home
Act like Mrs. Fleetwood
event1933
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Two drive in waitresses try to find a wealthy boyfriend.
Western Jamboree
Act like Mrs. Gregory
event1938 star_border 5
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Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
Duke of the Navy
Act like Mrs. John T. Duke
event1942 star_border 5
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A fake general sends two sailors on a wild-goose chase for buried treasure.
M'Liss
Act like Delia Morpher
event1936 star_border 5
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The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Our Little Girl
Act like Amy
event1935 star_border 4.8
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Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.
Sorority House
Act like Mrs. Pettingell Dawson
event1939 star_border 6.8
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A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
We Have Our Moments
Act like Mother
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.
Four Girls in White
Act like Admitting Desk Nurse
event1939 star_border 6.3
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Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
Mary Jane's Pa
Act like Third Gossip
event1935 star_border 6
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Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
She Loves Me Not
Act like Martha - the Mercers' Maid
event1934 star_border 5.6
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A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
No, No, Nanette
Act like Dowager
event1940 star_border 6
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Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
A Quiet Fourth
event1935
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An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
Chatterbox
Act like Herself (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Act like Miss Frazer
event1932
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A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.
Little Orphan Annie
Act like Mrs. Jennings
event1938
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Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
The Soldier and the Lady
Act like Gypsy Woman (Uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Pacific Blackout
Act like Telephone Operator Supervisor
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Life Begins with Love
Act like Mrs. Briggs (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5
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A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
Public Deb No. 1
Act like President
event1940 star_border 4.2
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When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Finishing School
Act like Edith (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
Bedlam of Beards
Act like Mrs. Whipple
event1934 star_border 1
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A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
Lady in a Jam
Act like Matron (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.5
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A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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