MARGARET LIVINGSTON BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Margaret Livingston was born on November 25th, 1900 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her career in the industry began as a teenager with a number of leading roles on silent films. Some of her early film roles included, "The Chain Invisible" (1916) starring Bruce McRae, Gerda Holmes, Alfred Hickman and Thomas McGrath, "Alimony" (1917) starring Lois Wilson, George Fisher, Josephine Whittell and Wallace Worsley and "Within the Cup" (1918) starring Bessie Barriscale, George Fisher, Edward Coxen and Aggie Herring.
As her career progressed more prominent leading roles came her way starring in, "The Parish Priest" (1920) starring William Desmond, Tom Ricketts, Carl Miller and J. Morris Foster, "Eden and Return" (1921) with Doris May and Emmett King, "Divorce" (1923) starring alongside Jane Novak, John Bowers, James Corrigan and Edythe Chapman and "A Trip to Chinatown" (1926) co-starring Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell, Earle Foxe, Wilson Benge, Gladys McConnell, Harry Woods, George Kuwa and J. Farrell MacDonald.
When sound films came about she had no issue making the transition. Some of her more well known roles included, "American Beauty" (1927) starring with Billie Dove, Walter McGrail, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, Alice White, Edythe Chapman, Lucian Prival, Lloyd Hughes and Yola d'Avril, "Mad Hour" (1928) with Sally O'Neill, Alice White and Donald Reed, "His Private Life" (1928) starring Adolphe Menjou, Kathryn Carver and Eugene Pallette, "The Last Warning" (1929) with Laura La Plante, Montague Love, Roy D'Arcy and John Boles, "The Canary Murder Case" (1929) starring William Powell, James Bell, Louise Brooks and Jean Arthur "Tonight at Twelve" (1929) Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis and Vera Reynolds, "The Lady Refuses" (1931) co-starring Betty Compson, Gilbert Emery, John Darrow, Ivan Lebedeff, Daphne Pollard and Halliwell Hobbes and her final film role in, "Social Register" (1934) starring Colleen Moore, Alexander Kirkland and Pauline Frederick.
She married only once in 1931 to Paul Whiteman a musician. In the mid 1930's, Livingston chose to retire from the industry and published a book titled, "Whiteman's Burden".
Margaret Livingston passed away on December 13th, 1984 in Warrington, Pennsylvania.
Filmography
1934 Social Register
1932 Call Her Savage
1931 Broadminded
1931 Smart Money
1931 God's Gift to Women
1931 Kiki
1931 The Lady Refuses
1930 Big Money
1930 What a Widow!
1930 For the Love o' Lil
1930 Murder on the Roof
1929 Seven Keys to Baldpate
1929 Two O'Clock in the Morning
1929 Acquitted
1929 Tonight at Twelve
1929 The Girl Who Wouldn't Wait
1929 Innocents of Paris
1929 The Charlatan
1929 The Office Scandal
1929 The Canary Murder Case
1929 Bellamy Trial
1929 The Last Warning
1928 The Apache
1928 His Private Life
1928 Beware of Bachelors
1928 Through the Breakers
1928 Say It with Sables
1928 The Way of the Strong
1928 Wheel of Chance
1928 The Scarlet Dove
1928 Mad Hour
1928 A Woman's Way
1927 Streets of Shanghai
1927 The American Beauty
1927 Sunrise
1927 The Girl from Gay Paree
1927 Married Alive
1927 Lightning
1927 Secret Studio
1927 Slaves of Beauty
1926 Breed of the Sea
1926 Womanpower
1926 The Blue Eagle
1926 A Trip to Chinatown
1926 Hell's Four Hundred
1926 The Yankee Señor
1925 Wages for Wives
1925 When the Door Opened
1925 The Best People
1925 After Marriage
1925 Havoc
1925 The Wheel
1925 Greater Than a Crown
1925 I'll Show You the Town
1925 Up the Ladder
1925 Capital Punishment
1924 The Chorus Lady
1924 Butterfly
1924 Her Marriage Vow
1924 Wandering Husbands
1924 Love's Whirlpool
1923 Divorce
1923 The Social Buccaneer
1921 Eden and Return
1921 Passing Through
1921 Colorado Pluck
1921 The Home Stretch
1921 Lying Lips
1920 The Parish Priest
1920 The Brute Master
1920 Hairpins
1920 Water, Water, Everywhere
1920 What's Your Husband Doing?
1919 Haunting Shadows
1919 All Wrong
1919 The Busher
1918 Within the Cup
1917 Alimony
1916 The Chain Invisible
