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Margaret Hamilton
9 December 1902
Margaret Hamilton played in 14 movies in the Drama, Romance, Music, Comedy, Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Musical, Horror, Sci-Fi, Film-Noir, Crime, Documentary, Thriller, Mystery genres.
Margaret Hamilton got succeed with average imdb rating 6.7.
A kindergarten trainer in her native Cleveland, Margaret Hamilton began her acting life's work there in community arena and with the honoured Cleveland Playhouse. In 1933, Hamilton was invited to quote her stage role of the contumelious daughter-in-law in the Broadway fidget with Another Phraseology suitable the MGM film adaptation. Allowing only in her early '30s, the gloriously unpretty Hamilton subsequently played dozens of busybodies, gossips, skilled maids, and housekeepers in fil
... ms manner such titles as Hat, Film and Glove (1934), Way Down East (1935) and These Three (1936). She proved an excellent nip in the bud for such comedians as W.C. Fields (in 1940's My Little Chickadee) and Harold Lloyd (in 1946's The Evil of Harold Diddlebock). Her most famous film task was the dual role of Elvira Gulch and the Wicked Virago of the West in the imperishable 1939 ‚lite The Wizard of Oz -- a role which nearly cost her her life when her leafy copper makeup caught a set fire to during one of her "disappearance" scenes.
She played several smaller but no less stirring roles at 20th Century-Fox, including the original-scene plot motivator in People At one's desire Talk (1951) and Carrie Realm in Wabash Avenue (1950). She alternated her blear work with status assignments in the 1950s and 1960s, frequently returning to her to the quick base at the Cleveland Playhouse. Achieving "icon" status in the 1970s by virtue of The Wizard of Oz, Hamilton sometimes found herself being hint for "camp" force (e.g. Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud), but also enjoyed some of her best-ever parts, including the part of professorial occult whiz in the 1972 TV big The Night Strangler. Regard for her menacing demeanor, Hamilton was a gentle, blurry-spoken woman; she was especially addicted to of children, and showed up regularly on such PBS programs as Sesame Terrace and Mister Rogers.
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