Margot Grahame

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Margot Grahame (20 February 1911 – 1 January 1982) was an English actress most noted for starring in The Informer and The Crimson Pirate. She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen appearance in 1958.

Movie actress

Grahame was the highest-paid actress in England during the 1930s, before going to America, where she performed in a number of films of the 30's, 40's and 50's. Hollywood producers' interest was peaked that she had appeared in forty-two major roles in English films in only three years. Grahame was signed to a long-term contract by RKO.

She appeared as the prostitute girlfriend of Gypo Nolan in John Ford's The Informer (1935). She followed this performance with a role as leading lady Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (1935). She performed with Bebe Daniels in The Fabulous Joe (1947). As the character Emily Terkle, Grahame was appearing in her first motion picture since The Buccaneer (1938). The latter dealt with U.S. history, particularly the lives of Jean La Fitte and Andrew Jackson. Starring opposite Frederic March, Grahame faced the challenge of playing the love interest rather than a siren. After World War II, she dyed her hair and became a redhead. She appeared in The Romantic Age in 1949.

Her last films were made in the 1950s and included I'll Get You For This (1950), The Crimson Pirate (1952), The Beggar's Opera (1953), Orders Are Orders (1954), and Saint Joan (1957). She appeared in "The Sweater" (1958), an episode of The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1958).

Personal life

Grahame moved into a new home high in the Hollywood Hills after her separation from English actor, Francis Lister, in 1935. She married Canadian millionaire, Allen McMartin, in 1938. They divorced in 1946. In 1948, Grahame began a relationship with the British literary agent A. D. Peters which continued until his death in 1973.

Death

Margot Grahame died in London on New Year's Day of 1982, aged 70, from chronic bronchitis.

References

• "Margot Grahame Dislikes Depot Change; Cecil B. Demille Talks About Buccaneer." Albuquerque Journal. January 24, 1938, Page 8.
• "Bebe Daniels Set To Produce Movie." Charleston Gazette. July 16, 1946, Page 11.
• "Margot Grahame Agrees That Luckies Are Gentlest On The Throat." Connellsville Daily Courier. March 9, 1937, Page 3.
• "Spring Styles Call For Much Warmer Hues-Margot Grahame." Dunkirk Evening Observer. March 11, 1937, Page 11.
• "In England They Call Margot Grahame Second Jean Harlow." Lowell Sun. May 28, 1935, Page 54.
• "Sign of Separation." Lowell Sun. November 2, 1935, Page 45.

External links

• Margot Grahame at the Internet Movie Database
• Margot Grahame at the Internet Broadway Database
• Margot Grahame at Find a Grave