Margaret Landis

Biography

Nashville greeted Margaret Landis on 31 August 1891, and by 1918 she had traded Tennessee quiet for the flicker of silent screens, stealing scenes in Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley. Five years later she did it twice more, headlining What Wives Want and Alice Adams in the same whirlwind 1923. Off-camera, she said “I do” twice—first to J. Hamilton Couper, then to director Bertram Bracken—before slipping out of the spotlight. Six decades later, on 8 April 1981, she took her final bow in Oakland, California, closing the curtain at 89.