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Margaret Livingston

 
Actor: Margaret Livingston
  • Born: Nov 25, 1900 in Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Died: 1984 in California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '20s-'30s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Romance
  • Career Highlights: Sunrise, Seven Keys to Baldpate, The Apache
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Home Stretch (1921)

Biography

In films from 1916, statuesque actress Margaret Livingston was one of filmdom's finest "vamps." Livingston's most famous performance in the temptress category was as "The Woman of the City" who bewitches farmer George O'Brien and inveigles him into a murder scheme in F. W. Murnau's haunting Sunrise (1927). Blessed with an appealingly husky voice, she made a successful transition to talkies in films like Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929) and Call Her Savage (1932). Her best-known talkie "appearance" went uncredited: when star Louise Brooks refused to return to the U.S. to film new dialogue sequences for the previously silent The Canary Murder Case (1929), Livingston dubbed Brooks' voice in the completed footage and doubled for the actress in over-the-shoulder medium shots (the deception does not go unnoticed). Retiring in 1934, Margaret Livingston became the fourth and final wife of bandleader Paul Whiteman, outliving him by eighteen years. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Margaret Livingston

in Artists & Models magazine, June, 1927
Born November 25, 1900(1900-11-25)
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Died December 13, 1984 (aged 84)
Warrington, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other name(s) Marguerite Livingston
Margaret Livingstone
Occupation Actress
Years active 1916–1934

Margaret Livingston (November 25, 1900 – December 13, 1984) was an American film actress, most notable for her work during the silent film era. She was sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingston or Margaret Livingstone.

Career

Livingston was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her older sister Ivy also became a film actress.

The younger Livingston made her debut in silent film in 1916. She made over 50 films during the "silent era", and a further 20 films after she successfully made the transition to sound film in 1929. One of her most notable performances was in F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). She occasionally dubbed voices for some other actresses, including Louise Brooks for The Canary Murder Case (1929).

In 1931 she married the band leader Paul Whiteman, and retired from film acting in 1934.

Livingston was one of the guest on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince died there under mysterious circumstances. In the Peter Bogdanovich film The Cat's Meow (2001), Livingston, played by Claudia Harrison, is depicted as having an affair with Ince at the time of his death.

Livingston died in Warrington, Pennsylvania.

Filmography

  • The Chain Invisible (1916)
  • Alimony (1917) (as Marguerite Livingston) as Florence
  • Within the Cup (1918)
  • The Busher (1919)
  • All Wrong (1919) (as Marguerite Livingston) as Ethel Goodwin
  • Haunting Shadows (1920) (as Marguerite Livingston) as Marian Deveraux
  • What's Your Husband Doing? (1920) as Madge Mitchell
  • Water, Water Everywhere (1920) as Martha Beecher
  • Hairpins (1920) as Effie Wainwright
  • The Brute Master (1920) as The Native 'Taupou'
  • The Parish Priest (1920) as Agnnes Cassidy
  • Lying Lips (1921) as Lelia Dodson
  • The Home Stretch (1921) as Molly
  • Colorado Pluck (1921) as Angela Featherstone
  • Passing Through (1921) as Louise Kingston
  • Eden and Return (1921) as Connie Demarest
  • The Social Buccaneer (1923) as Princess Elise
  • Divorce (1923) as Gloria Gayne
  • Love's Whirlpool (1924) as A Maid
  • Wandering Husbands (1924) as Marilyn Foster
  • Her Marriage Vow (1924) as Estelle Winslow
  • Butterfly (1924) as Violet Van De Wort
  • The Chorus Lady (1924) as Patricia O'Brien
  • Capital Punishment (1925) as Mona Caldwell
  • Up the Ladder (1925) as Helen Newhall
  • I'll Show You the Town (1925) as Lucille Pemberton
  • Greater Than a Crown (1925) as Molly Montrose
  • The Wheel (1925) as Elsie Dixon
  • Havoc (1925) as Violet Deering
  • After Marriage (1925) as Alma Lathrop
  • The Best People (1925) as Millie Montgomery
  • When the Door Opened (1925) as Mrs. Grenfal
  • Wages for Wives (1925) as Carol Bixby
  • The Yankee Señor (1926) as Flora
  • Hell's 400 (1926) as Evelyn Vance
  • A Trip to Chinatown (1926) as Alicia Cuyer
  • The Blue Eagle (1926) as Mrs. Mary Rohan
  • Womanpower (1926) as Dot
  • Breed of the Sea (1926) as Marietta Rawdon
  • Slaves of Beauty (1927) as Goldie
  • Secret Studio (1927) as Nina Clark
  • Lightning (1927) as Dot Deal/Little Eva
  • Married Alive (1927) as Amy Duxbury
  • The Girl from Gay Paree (1927) as Gertie
  • Sunrise (1927) as The Woman from the City
  • American Beauty (1927) as Mrs. Gillespie
  • Streets of Shanghai (1927) as Sadie
  • A Woman's Way (1928)
  • Mad Hour (1928) as Maid
  • The Scarlet Dove (1928) as Olga
  • Wheel of Chance (1928) as Josie Drew
  • The Way of the Strong (1928) as Marie
  • Say It with Sables (1928) as Irene Gordon
  • Through the Breakers (1928) as Diane Garrett
  • Beware of Bachelors (1928) as Miss Pfeffer, the vamp
  • His Private Life (1928) as Yvette Bérgere
  • The Apache (1928) as Sonya
  • The Last Warning (1929) as Evalinda
  • Bellamy Trial (1929) as Mimi Bellamy
  • The Canary Murder Case (1929) (voice only, dubbed dialogue for Louise Brooks) as Margaret Odell
  • The Office Scandal (1929) as Lillian Tracy
  • The Charlatan (1929) as Florence
  • Innocents of Paris (1929) as Madame Renard
  • Tonight at Twelve (1929) as Nan Stoddard
  • Acquitted (1929) as Marian
  • Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929)
  • Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929) as Myra Thornhill
  • Murder on the Roof (1930) as Marcia
  • For the Love o' Lil (1930) as Eleanor Cartwright
  • What a Widow! (1930) as Valli
  • Big Money (1930) as Mae
  • The Lady Refuses (1931) as Berthine Waller
  • Kiki (1931) as Paulette Vaile
  • God's Gift to Women (1931) as Tania Donaliff
  • Smart Money (1931) as District Attorney's girl
  • Broadminded (1931) as Mabel Robinson
  • Call Her Savage (1932) as Molly
  • The Social Register (1934) as Gloria

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