1. Mary Margaret Warren Anglin was a Canadian-born Broadway actress, director and producer.
16 Facts About Margaret Anglin
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Margaret Anglin was educated at Loretto Abbey, Toronto, and at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Montreal.
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Margaret Anglin graduated from the Empire School of Dramatic Acting, New York, in 1894, where she studied under Nelson Wheatcroft.
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Margaret Anglin's acting skills brought the attention of theatre impresario Charles Frohman who enabled her professional stage debut in 1894 in the Bronson Howard production of Shenandoah.
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Margaret Anglin made her Broadway debut in the 1898 production of Lord Chumley then achieved considerable fame in 1898 on tour portraying "Roxane" in the Edmond Rostand play, Cyrano de Bergerac starring Richard Mansfield.
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Margaret Anglin became leading lady with Charles Frohman in California in 1899.
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Margaret Anglin performed with the Empire Theatre Company, New York.
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Margaret Anglin was 33 when she moved back to America after her grand tour in Australia.
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Margaret Anglin immediately accepted the offer, and would embrace all areas of the project's production.
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Margaret Anglin believed that "the classical play is the highest expression for the player" and her passion for the form fueled her professionalism and attention to detail.
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Margaret Anglin's productions proved not only to be impressive professional feats, but her artistic decisions to pair the Greek classics with the modern conventions of the time were incredibly innovative.
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Margaret Anglin did "not believe in ignoring the conventions of the stage today, simply because such conventions did not exist in the time of Sophocles, and Euripides".
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Margaret Anglin implemented modern realistic makeup to replace masks, cast women to play the female roles, used modern music, and set the plays at night using artificial light instead of using daylight.
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Margaret Anglin "was always intent on humanizing the ancient works" for her modern audiences so that they "understood that they dealt with universal and lasting concerns" and her choices reflect this ambition.
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In 1911, Margaret Anglin became a US citizen through her marriage to fellow actor Howard Hull.
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Margaret Anglin was interred there in the Anglin family plot at Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery.