Margo Lee
{{Short description|Australian actress and singer}}
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Margaret Stella Lee (20 June 1923 – 16 October 1987) credited as Margo Lee, was an Australian actor and singer of radio, stage, film and TV.Martha Rutledge, 'Lee, Margaret Stella (Meg) (1923–1987)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lee-margaret-stella-meg-14146/text25157, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 29 May 2016.
Life
Lee was in 1923 in the Leichhardt area of Sydney. Her parents were Margaret Clara (born Draper) and a dentist named John Llewellin Hogg.
She worked briefly in Hollywood.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46931039 |title=Family first for Margo Lee |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=23 |issue=4[?] |location=Australia |date=25 April 1956 |accessdate=29 May 2016 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Filmography
=Film=
- Into the Straight (1949) as Zara Marlowe
- The Twelve Pound Look (1956) (TV movie) as Kate{{cite magazine|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-australian-television-plays-the-twelve-pound-look/|magazine=Filmink|title=Forgotten Australian Television Plays: The Twelve Pound Look|first= Stephen|last= Vagg|date=January 30, 2022|access-date=August 13, 2024}}
- The Importance of Being Earnest{{Citation |last=Rutledge |first=Martha |title=Margaret Stella (Meg) Lee (1923–1987) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lee-margaret-stella-meg-14146 |access-date=2024-08-04 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}} (1957) (TV movie) as Gwendolyn
- Don't Listen Ladies (1963) (TV movie) as Madeleine
- Flowering Cherry (1963) (TV movie) as Isobel Cherry
- Tim (1979) as Mrs Harrington
- Starstruck (1982) as Pearl
=Television=
- Whiplash (1959-60)
- Stormy Petrel (1960) as Elizabeth Macarthur
- The Outcasts (1961) as Mrs John MacArthur
- The Purple Jacaranda (1964) (miniseries) as Anne James
- Voyage Out (1969)
- The Mike Walsh Show (1977) (TV series) Song performance "My Hero" with Dinah Lee, Tim Hall & Phil Haldeman
- Run From the Morning (1978) (miniseries)
- Patrol Boat (1979-83) as Matron Whylie
- The Mike Walsh Show (1983) (TV series) Guest as herself.
Theatre
- Top of the Bill (1954) at Phillip Street Theatre
- Charlie Girl (1971) at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0497815}}
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Category:20th-century Australian actresses
Category:20th-century Australian women singers
Category:Australian expatriate actresses in the United States
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