Margaret Irving

Margaret Irving

Born: January 17, 1898
Died: March 5, 1988
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Margaret Irving...

Title: Highway Patrol
Character: Irene Tewell, mother
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Ain't Misbehavin'
Title: Ain't Misbehavin'
Character: Mrs. Grumbacher (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Rowdy young girl crashes high society when wealthy older man falls for her.
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The Beautiful Cheat
Title: The Beautiful Cheat
Character: Olympia Haven
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome Ms. Granville.
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In Society
Title: In Society
Character: Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Title: Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Character: Madame Delacour
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
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Kentucky
Title: Kentucky
Character: Woman with Man at Race Track
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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Love, Honor and Behave
Title: Love, Honor and Behave
Character: Nan Bowleigh
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Comedy about a weak husband, afraid to say "no" to his new wife, who realizes he must assert himself to save his marriage.
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The Baroness and the Butler
Title: The Baroness and the Butler
Character: Countess Olga
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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Little Miss Roughneck
Title: Little Miss Roughneck
Character: Mrs. Gertrude 'Gert' LaRue
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
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Sh! The Octopus
Title: Sh! The Octopus
Character: Polly Crane
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
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Under Suspicion
Title: Under Suspicion
Character: Laura Walters
Released: November 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Title: Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Character: Mrs. Cunningham
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character: The Duchess
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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Men in Exile
Title: Men in Exile
Character: Mother Haines
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.
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Charlie Chan at the Opera
Title: Charlie Chan at the Opera
Character: Mme. Lilli Rochelle
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
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Four Days Wonder
Title: Four Days Wonder
Character: Aunt Jessica
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton (Kenneth Howell) into her Sherlock shenanigans.
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Captain Calamity
Title: Captain Calamity
Character: Mamie Gruen
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
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Follow Your Heart
Title: Follow Your Heart
Character: Louise Masetti
Released: August 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
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Women Are Trouble
Title: Women Are Trouble
Character: Frances Blaine
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Della Bailey
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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I Married a Doctor
Title: I Married a Doctor
Character: Maude Dyer
Released: April 25, 1936
Type: Movie
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Edna Wilson (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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Exclusive Story
Title: Exclusive Story
Character: Mrs. Higgins
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Thanks a Million
Title: Thanks a Million
Character: Mrs. Kruger
Released: November 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
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Animal Crackers
Title: Animal Crackers
Character: Mrs. Whitehead
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.
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The Man from M.A.R.S.
Title: The Man from M.A.R.S.
Character: Mary Langdon
Released: December 27, 1922
Type: Movie
An inventor makes contact with Mars via television. The film is notable for using the 3-D process called Teleview, similar to today's alternating frame 3-D systems. Shown in 3-D only at the Selwyn Theater in New York City, it was previewed as Mars Calling at a trade and press screening on 13 October 1922, premiered as M.A.R.S. on 27 December 1922, and ran through 20 January 1923. A 2-D version was distributed as Radio-Mania in 1923–1924.