Margaret Armstrong

Acting

Margaret Armstrong

Born — Died

1885-10-07 — 1961-12-15

Place of birth

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Margaret Armstrong (born Winifred Margaret Atwell) was an American stage and screen actress.

Known for

We Have Our Moments poster
7.1

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.

We Have Our Moments

1937

Finishing School poster
6.2

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

Finishing School

1934

No, No, Nanette poster
6.2

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?

No, No, Nanette

1940

Our Little Girl poster
5.3

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.

Our Little Girl

1935

Annie Oakley poster
6.5

Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Annie Oakley

1935

Lady in a Jam poster
5.6

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

Lady in a Jam

1942

Film credits

1940s · 5 titles

1930s · 24 titles

We Have Our Moments poster
7.1

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.

We Have Our Moments

1937

Finishing School poster
6.2

Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.

Finishing School

1934

Our Little Girl poster
5.3

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.

Our Little Girl

1935

Annie Oakley poster
6.5

Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Annie Oakley

1935

She Loves Me Not poster
6.0

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

She Loves Me Not

1934

Ann Vickers poster
5.8

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.

Ann Vickers

1933

Western Jamboree poster
7.0

Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.

Western Jamboree

1938

Go Chase Yourself poster
5.7

When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

Go Chase Yourself

1938

Mary Jane's Pa poster
6.8

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.

Mary Jane's Pa

1935

Life Begins with Love poster
6.7

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.

Life Begins with Love

1937

The Soldier and the Lady poster
7.3

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.

The Soldier and the Lady

1937

Four Girls in White poster
7.2

Four student nurses at a large urban hospital cope with life's problems and career issues.

Four Girls in White

1939

Chatterbox poster
7.0

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.

Chatterbox

1936

Sorority House poster
7.3

A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.

Sorority House

1939

Three Cornered Moon poster
6.0

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock market crash has depleted their worth. Elizabeth's goofy brothers cannot easily adjust to the life of the average worker. Meanwhile, the family doctor has his eye on Elizabeth, but he will have to compete with her suitor, an ill-informed writer.

Three Cornered Moon

1933

Women in Prison poster
8.0

The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.

Women in Prison

1938

M'Liss poster
6.0

The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.

M'Liss

1936

Lightning Strikes Twice poster
5.2

An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.

Lightning Strikes Twice

1934

No artwork available
8.0

Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.

Little Orphan Annie

1938

No artwork available
8.0

An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.

A Quiet Fourth

1935

Tomorrow and Tomorrow poster
8.0

A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

1932

Walking Back Home poster
NR

Two drive in waitresses try to find a wealthy boyfriend.

Walking Back Home

1933

No artwork available
8.0

Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the countryside and takes a room in a small boardinghouse. She makes the acquaintance of the owner and her young son who works as a soda jerk in the ice cream parlor and notices that he is teased by the other kids in town so she comes up with a way to help. Ruth sings "St. Louis Blues" & "It Had to Be You".

Melody in May

1936

Bedlam of Beards poster
3.3

A pair of barbers attempt to solve a kidnapping.

Bedlam of Beards

1934