Margaret O’Brien Movies

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Margaret O’Brien (1937-) is an American actress.   O’Brien became one of the most popular child stars in cinema history and was honored with a Juvenile Academy Award® as the outstanding child actress of 1944.  In her later career, she appeared on television, on stage, and in supporting film roles.  Her IMDb page shows over 77 acting credits since 1941.  This page will rank Margaret O’Brien movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.

1944’s Meet Me In St. Louis

Margaret O’Brien Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

1949’s The Secret Garden

Margaret O’Brien Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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1942’s Journey For Margaret

Best IMDb Trivia On Margaret O’Brien

1. Angela Maxine O’Brien was born in San Diego, California in 1937.

2. In a practice common among child actors at the time, Margaret O’Brien adopted as her professional first name the name of the character who was her first credited part in Journey for Margaret (1942).

3. Margaret O’Brien was named to Quigley’s Annual Top Stars Poll three times:  She was ranked 9th in 1945, 8th in 1946 and 19th in 1947.

4.  Margaret O’Brien’s special Academy Award® as Outstanding Juvenile Performer for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) was stolen and she was unable to regain it for nearly fifty years when two memorabilia collectors came across it at a swap meet and managed to give it back to O’Brien.

5.  In 1991, Margaret O’Brien appeared in Murder, She Wrote, season 7, episode “Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?”, reuniting O’Brien with her Tenth Avenue Angel co-star Angela Lansbury.

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17 thoughts on “Margaret O’Brien Movies

  1. I have seen six Margaret O’Brien .Those films are JOURNEY FOR MARGARET, MADAME CURIE. JANE EYRE, MEET ME IN ST.LOUIS, OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES, and LITTLE WOMEN. Not as a good an actress as child star Natalie Wood but she still had her moments especially in LITTLE WOMEN. The scene in LITTLE WOMEN where Margaret’s character Beth realizes she is dying is heartbreaking yet moving all at the same time.

    1. The first sentence in the above post should be I have seen six Margaret O’Brien movies and not I have seen six Margaret O’Brien. Guess I didn’t catch that error in time when editing the post. My mistake and my apologies for the error.

  2. I saw 5 including top 5. 10 and favorite our vines have tender grapes(has not aged well). nine madame curie. meet me in st louis for me an eight , I agree about Halloween. no hidden gems.

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