Margaret Armstrong

Margaret Armstrong

Born: October 7, 1885
Died: December 15, 1961
in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Margaret Armstrong (born Winifred Margaret Atwell) was an American stage and screen actress.

Movies for Margaret Armstrong...

Duke of the Navy
Title: Duke of the Navy
Character: Mrs. John T. Duke
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A fake general sends two sailors on a wild-goose chase for buried treasure.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Telephone Operator Supervisor
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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No, No, Nanette
Title: No, No, Nanette
Character: Dowager
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: President
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Sorority House
Title: Sorority House
Character: Mrs. Pettingell Dawson
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Admitting Desk Nurse
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Little Orphan Annie
Title: Little Orphan Annie
Character: Mrs. Jennings
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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Western Jamboree
Title: Western Jamboree
Character: Mrs. Gregory
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
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Women in Prison
Title: Women in Prison
Character: Mrs. Tatum
Released: March 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.
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Life Begins with Love
Title: Life Begins with Love
Character: Mrs. Briggs (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Gypsy Woman (Uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Mother
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Delia Morpher
Released: July 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
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Chatterbox
Title: Chatterbox
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
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Annie Oakley
Title: Annie Oakley
Character: Mrs. Oakley
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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A Quiet Fourth
Title: A Quiet Fourth
Released: August 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Third Gossip
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Our Little Girl
Title: Our Little Girl
Character: Amy
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Martha
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
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She Loves Me Not
Title: She Loves Me Not
Character: Martha - the Mercers' Maid
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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Finishing School
Title: Finishing School
Character: Edith (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
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Bedlam of Beards
Title: Bedlam of Beards
Character: Mrs. Whipple
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.
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Walking Back Home
Title: Walking Back Home
Character: Mrs. Fleetwood
Released: December 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Two drive in waitresses try to find a wealthy boyfriend.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Miss Jones (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Character: Miss Frazer
Released: February 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.