Margaret Roach
{{Short description|American actress (1921–1964)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Margaret Roach
| image = Margaret Roach in Road Show (1941).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Roach in Road Show (1941)
| birth_name = Margaret Mae Roach
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|03|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|11|22|1921|03|15|mf=y}}
| death_place = Washoe County, Nevada, U.S.
| resting_place = Calvary Cemetery (East Los Angeles, California)
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{marriage|Robert Livingston|1947|1951|end=divorced}}
| children = 1
| father = Hal Roach Sr.
| mother = Marguerite Nichols
| relatives = Hal Roach Jr. (brother)
}}
Margaret Mae Roach{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} (March 15, 1921 – November 22, 1964) was an American actress active in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
She was born on March 15, 1921, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Hal Roach and Marguerite Nichols, and her brother was Hal Roach Jr.{{cite web |title=Margaret Roach ~ Hal Roach's Talented Daughter |url=http://www.classicactresses.org/2016/11/margaret-roach-1930s-starlet.html |website=classicactresses.org |access-date=3 July 2021}}
Roach gained early acting experience with a stock theater company headed by Ben Bard. She also sang in a night club and worked for two years as an extra in films for two years before she obtained bigger roles.{{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=Paul |title=Blond Margaret Roach Learns To Succeed Tho' Boss's Child |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-margare/151482418/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |work=The Central New Jersey Home News |date=August 15, 1940 |page=21|via = Newspapers.com}}
Roach was married to the actor Robert Livingston, from 1947 to 1951, and they had one son, actor and writer Addison Randall (b. 1949).{{Cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/1988-03-08/news/mn-419_1_robert-livingston |title=Robert Livingston, 83; 1930s Cowboy Film Hero |access-date=June 27, 2017 |newspaper=LA Times|date=March 8, 1988 }}
Roach died November 1964 in Washoe County, Nevada from cirrhosis of the liver caused by chronic alcoholism. She was buried in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California.Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
Filmography
- All Women Have Secrets (1939), as Betty
- Fast and Furious (1939), as Emmy Lou
- Riders from Nowhere (1940) as Marian Adams
- Turnabout (1940) as Dixie Gale
- Niagara Falls (1941) as Honeymooner
- Road Show (1941)
- A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
- Test Tube Babies (1948)
References
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External links
{{commons category|Margaret Roach}}
- {{IMDb name|0730043}}
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