Margaret Livingston Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Margaret Livingston (November 25, 1895 – 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. She remains best known today as "the Woman from the City" in F.W. Murnau's 1927 masterpiece Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
(After leaving her fiancé at the altar and going to Hollywood, she wrote a note home.) I am not going to get married. I am going to be in the movies.
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(In a 1937 interview) Harry Cohn was one of the most colorful characters you can imagine... an almost impossible person, saying the wrong things always but sending you away with the 'right' feeling. A personality like a bomb, he's like a sandpaper across your feelings. I doubt if Harry Cohn's a gentleman, but you'd love him. He sits behind his huge desk in his short sleeves, bawling into a half dozen phones, doing work enough for three men, but anyone can get in to see him - and no one ever leaves his office without a feeling of gain.
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Usually typecast as haughty socialites, vamps and villainesses.
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She dubbed Louise Brooks' voice in The Canary Murder Case (1929) when the legendary star refused to return from New York for retakes. Livingstone also appeared in some scenes because with her short, bobbed hair she looked remarkably like the Pandora's Box (1929) star.
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She grew increasingly senile in her 80s and had to be institutionalized.
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She met Charles Chaplin's leading lady Edna Purviance in a shop where she noticed the actress buying a bottle of perfume for $18, a sum Livingstone considered an exorbitant amount of money, a week's pay for the young woman. Livingstone had no idea acting could pay that much and became determined to enter the movie business.
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Brunette leading lady of Scottish and Swedish ancestry. From the age of 16 she played leading roles in the silents, usually as vamps or the "other woman". Her voice presented no problem when talking pictures came into vogue' in fact, she dubbed Louise Brooks in the mystery The Canary Murder Case (1929). She retired from films in the mid-'30s to concentrate on her marriage to bandleader Paul Whiteman and co-authoring a book about her overweight husband, entitled "Whiteman's Burden".
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Mistress of Thomas H. Ince and on the fateful trip aboard the Hearst yacht when Ince was shot / "taken ill with indigestion" two days before he died. A long-standing rumor whispered about Hollywood, the story was the basis of the play and movie The Cat's Meow (2001).
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