Margaret Livingston

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Margaret Livingston (25 November 1900 - 13 December 1984) was an American motion picture actress best known today as the "Woman from the City" in F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). Her name was sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingston or as Margaret Livingstone.

Margaret Livingston in the 1920s

[edit] Career

Livingston was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her older sister Ivy Livingston 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', over 20 films after she successfully made the transition to sound film in 1929. After sound films came along, she occasionally dubbed voices for some other actresses, including Louise Brooks for The Canary Murder Case (1929).

In 1931 she married popular band leader Paul Whiteman. She made her last movies in 1934.

Livingston is also known for being 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.

She died in Warrington, Pennsylvania.

[edit] Filmography

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