Margaret Phillips (actress)
Welsh-born actress (1923-1984)
Margaret Phillips (6 July 1923 – 9 September 1984) was a Welsh-born actress who was active on Broadway from the 1940s and in television in the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life
Margaret Phillips was born at Cwmgwrach , South Wales. She moved to the United States with her parents at age 16 and attended Walton High School , a girls' school in the Bronx. [1] [2] She performed in summer theatre at Woodstock, New York and trained with actor Cecil Clovelly. [3]
Career
Margaret Phillips had a stage career lasting from the 1940s until her last appearance in 1982. In 1947, she won the Clarence Derwent Award for "most promising female performer" [4] and the Donaldson Award for her supporting work in Another Part of the Forest . [5] She had a supporting role in Tennessee Williams 's Summer and Smoke when it opened on Broadway in 1948. [6] In 1950 she replaced Irene Worth in Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot . [7] She played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1960. [8]
On screen, Phillips appeared as Ray Milland 's disabled wife in A Life of Her Own (1950, George Cukor , director), [9] and in The Nun's Story (1959) with Audrey Hepburn , among other films. Phillips had a busy television career in the 1950s, with credits in NBC Matinee Theater and a 1950 production of Hedda Gabler for NBC. She played one of the King's daughters in a live 1953 television production of King Lear starring Orson Welles and staged by Peter Brook . [10] In 1959, she starred in an episode of Rawhide titled "Incident of the Dust Flower." In 1960, she starred in an episode of Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond titled "Call from Tomorrow."
Phillips was in the first membership class of the Actors Studio , along with Marlon Brando , Montgomery Clift , Maureen Stapleton , and many other notable actors. [11]
Personal life
She died from cancer in New York City, in 1984, age 61. [2]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1950 | A Life of Her Own | Nora Harleigh | |
1959 | The Nun's Story | Sister Pauline (medical student) |
References
- ↑ Murray Schumach, "From Cwmgwrach to Broadway" New York Times (31 October 1948): X1.
- 1 2 "Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984).
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"Stratford's Olivia Finds Luck Important to Career"
Bridgeport Post
(10 July 1960): 31. via
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- ↑ Louis Calta, "Margaret Phillips Wins Stage Award" New York Times (8 May 1947): 31.
- ↑ "For Fourth Year in a Row" Billboard (23 August 1947): 49.
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George Tucker,
"All Broadway is Talking about Phillips; Hailed 'Born Actress'"
Terre Haute Tribune
(28 November 1948): 23. via
Newspapers.com
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Louis Sheaffer,
"Miss Phillips' Accent Returns for an English 'Cocktail Party'"
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(5 June 1950): 5. via
Newspapers.com
- ↑ Edward P. Halline, " Lahr Brings Dream to Delightful Life in Bard's Midsummer Night Fantasy" Milwaukee Sentinel (20 November 1960): 6B.
- ↑ Patricia King Hanson and Amy Dunkleberger, eds., AFI: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States (University of California Press 1999): 1372. ISBN 9780520215214
- ↑ Tony Howard, "When Peter met Orson: The 1953 CBS King Lear" in Linda E. Bose and Richard Burt, eds., Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video (Psychology Press 1997): 125. ISBN 9780415165853
- ↑ Dick Kleiner, "The Actors Studio: Making Stars out of the Unknown" Sarasota Journal (21 December 1956): 26.
External links
- Margaret Phillips at IMDb
- Margaret Phillips at the Internet Broadway Database
- Margaret Phillips at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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