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Margaret Hamilton
Cause admonishment death
Heart attack
Occupation
Actress, schoolteacher
Spouse(s)
(m. 1931; div. 1938)
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Margaret Hamilton
BIO
Margaret Hamilton was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 9, 1902, the youngest of four children and obtained her teaching certificate in 1923 from the Wheelock Kindergarten Training School in Boston.
On June 13, 1931, Margaret Hamilton married Paul Boynton Meserve, a landscape architect. Together they had one son, Hamilton Wadsworth Meserve. The marriage ended in divorce in 1938 and Margaret raised her son alone in California.
For nearly fifteen years, Margaret Hamilton lived in Los Angeles, California before establishing permanent residence in New York City in 1951. Wherever her home was, she regularly traveled back and forth between coasts to perform in both movies and the theatre and later in television.
Among her other accomplishments, Margaret Hamilton was an honorary trustee of the Cleveland PlayHouse and was the recipient in 1977 of the Governor's Award of the State of Ohio. She was also a member of the Veterans Hospital Radio and TV Guild. She would visit hospitals to work with disabled veterans interested in the theatre and broadcasting.
in 1951. Wherever her home was, she regularly traveled back and forth between coasts to perform in both movies and the theatre and later in television.
Among her other accomplishments, Margaret
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Margaret Hamilton (actress)
American film actress (1902–1985)
For other people named Margaret Hamilton, see Margaret Hamilton.
Margaret Hamilton | |
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Hamilton, c. 1929 | |
| Born | Margaret Brainard Hamilton (1902-12-09)December 9, 1902 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 16, 1985(1985-05-16) (aged 82) Salisbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Wheelock College |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, schoolteacher |
| Years active | 1929,[1] 1933–1982 |
| Notable work | Almira Gulch and The Wicked Witch of the West in MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
| Spouse | Paul Meserve (m. 1931; div. 1938) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Neil Hamilton (distant cousin) Dorothy Hamilton Brush (sister) |
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress, vaudevillian[1] and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theatre, film, radio and television.[2] She often played villains and was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz.[2]
A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years