Margaret Mann

Margaret Mann (4 April 1868, in Aberdeen, Scotland – 4 February 1941, in Los Angeles, California), was a Scottish-American actress.

Margaret Mann starred in a number of major silent films such as Black Beauty in 1921 and played the lead role in John Fords 1928 drama Four Sons, one of John Wayne's first films. She often played kind-hearted or suffering motherly roles. With the advent of sound films her roles got noticeable smaller and she was often uncredited. She portrayed the kindly grandmother Mrs. Mack in two Our Gang comedies in 1931. She also played bit parts in movies like Frankenstein, You Can't Take It With You, Gone with the Wind and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Her last of over 80 movies was The Remarkable Andrew (1942), released one year after her death.

Mann died of cancer in 1941, aged 72. Not much about her private life is known, although a press release of 1928 said that Mann lived through many tragedies and hardships in her life.

Selected filmography

• The Heart of Humanity (1918)
• Black Beauty (1921)
• The Scarlet Letter (1926)
• Officer 444 (1926)
• Four Sons (1928)
• Disraeli (1929)
• The River (1929)
• Helping Grandma (1931)
• Fly My Kite (1931)
• The Brat (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Expensive Women (1931)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
• The Painted Veil (1934)
• Pursued (1934)
• Kentucky Blue Streak (1935)
• The Bohemian Girl (1936)
• The Law Rides (1936)
• Conflict (1936)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• The Remarkable Andrew (1942)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Margaret Mann.

• Margaret Mann at the Internet Movie Database
• Margaret Mann at Find a Grave
• Margaret Mann at Virtual History