Margaret Landis
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Margaret Cullen Landis (August 31, 1890 – April 8, 1981) was an American silent screen actress who appeared in at least 41 films between 1915 and 1931.
Biography
[edit]Margaret Cullen Landis was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis. Her father was a stockbroker[1] and her younger brother, Cullen Landis was a successful silent film director and actor. (Margaret Landis is no relation to film director John Landis) She began her career with Balboa Studios as a dancer in the 1915 film Who Pays.
Near the midpoint of her career she took some time off to study art, eventually returning to film work around 1921.[2]
Landis married film director Bertram Bracken on April 5, 1919,[3] and they divorced in 1924. She married James Hamilton Couper, a World War I veteran who came from a prominent Georgia Coast family, in 1930.[4]
Both Margaret and her brother Cullen left Hollywood soon after the arrival of sound. Margaret Landis’ last film was the talkie Sheer Luck (1931).
Landis had a stroke in 1969[4] and died on April 8, 1981, at Alameda, California, and is interred with her husband at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.[5][6][7] [8]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Code of the Yukon (1918)
- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
- Mr. Fix-It (1918)
- The Confession (1920)
- Parted Curtains (1920)
- Harriet and the Piper (1920)
- Sowing the Wind (1921)
- Ashes (1922)
- The Ladder Jinx (1922)
- Rose o' the Sea (1922)
- Alice Adams (1923)
- What Wives Want (1923)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (1923)
- The Love Brand (1923)
- The Miracle Baby (1923)
- A Million to Burn (1923)
- The Slanderers (1924)
- Passion's Pathway (1924)
- The Western Wallop (1924)
- Her Man (1924)
- Fighter's Paradise (1924)
- A Fighting Heart (1924)
- The Empire Builders (1924)
- Trigger Fingers (1924)
- My Man (1924)
- An Enemy Of Men (1925)
- Youth and Adventure (1925)
- The Latest from Paris (1928)
- Sheer Luck (1931)
References
[edit]- ^ 1900 US Census (Margeret Landis) Ancestry.com
- ^ At The Key Galveston Daily News, April 7, 1923, pg. 2
- ^ "Actress will sue director". The Los Angeles Times. May 11, 1923. p. 17. Retrieved August 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Katchmer, George A. (20 May 2015). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-4766-0905-8. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
- ^ California Death Index (Margaret Landis Couper) Ancestry.com
- ^ U.S. Veterans Gravesites (Margaret Landis Couper) Ancestry.com
- ^ Motion Picture Studio Directories, 1921, (Margaret Cullen Landis) Ancestry.com scan
- ^ How They Started - Eau Claire Leader; 17 June 1922; pg. 6 (Ancestry.com scan)
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