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Margaret Landis

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Margaret Cullen Landis Green Book January, 1916
The Martinache Marriage (1917)

Margaret Cullen Landis (August 31, 1890 – April 8, 1981) was an American silent screen actress who appeared in at least 41 films between 1915 and 1931.

Biography

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Margaret Cullen Landis was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis. Her father was a stockbroker[1] and her younger brother, Cullen Landis was a successful silent film director and actor. (Margaret Landis is no relation to film director John Landis) She began her career with Balboa Studios as a dancer in the 1915 film Who Pays.

Near the midpoint of her career she took some time off to study art, eventually returning to film work around 1921.[2]

Landis married film director Bertram Bracken on April 5, 1919,[3] and they divorced in 1924. She married James Hamilton Couper, a World War I veteran who came from a prominent Georgia Coast family, in 1930.[4]

Both Margaret and her brother Cullen left Hollywood soon after the arrival of sound. Margaret Landis’ last film was the talkie Sheer Luck (1931).

Landis had a stroke in 1969[4] and died on April 8, 1981, at Alameda, California, and is interred with her husband at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.[5][6][7] [8]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ 1900 US Census (Margeret Landis) Ancestry.com
  2. ^ At The Key Galveston Daily News, April 7, 1923, pg. 2
  3. ^ "Actress will sue director". The Los Angeles Times. May 11, 1923. p. 17. Retrieved August 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Katchmer, George A. (20 May 2015). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-1-4766-0905-8. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  5. ^ California Death Index (Margaret Landis Couper) Ancestry.com
  6. ^ U.S. Veterans Gravesites (Margaret Landis Couper) Ancestry.com
  7. ^ Motion Picture Studio Directories, 1921, (Margaret Cullen Landis) Ancestry.com scan
  8. ^ How They Started - Eau Claire Leader; 17 June 1922; pg. 6 (Ancestry.com scan)
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