1. Margaret Lindsay was noted for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930s and 1940s such as Baby Face, Jezebel and Scarlet Street and her leading roles in lower-budgeted B movie films such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940s.
Margaret Lindsay was born in Dubuque, Iowa, the eldest of six children of a pharmacist father who died in 1930.
Margaret Lindsay graduated in 1930 from Visitation Academy in Dubuque.
Margaret Lindsay was often mistaken as being British due to her convincing English accent.
Margaret Lindsay impressed Universal Studios enough to sign her for their 1932 version of The Old Dark House.
Margaret Lindsay was selected for a role as Edith Harris, a doomed English bride whose honeymoon voyage takes place on the Titanic.
Margaret Lindsay co-starred with Bette Davis in four Warners films: as Davis's sister in Fog Over Frisco ; in Dangerous, for which Davis won her first Best Actress Academy Award; in Bordertown with Paul Muni, and as Davis's rival for Henry Fonda's affections in Jezebel.
Margaret Lindsay returned to the stage and co-starred with Franchot Tone in The Second Man.
Margaret Lindsay made her television debut in 1950 in The Importance of Being Earnest, which allowed her to display her finely honed British accent.
Margaret Lindsay appeared in only four films during the 1950s and two in the 1960s.
Early in her career, Margaret Lindsay lived with her sister Helen in Hollywood.
Margaret Lindsay's dating companions were stars such as Cesar Romero, Richard Deacon, and even Liberace.
Margaret Lindsay died at the age of 70 of emphysema in 1981 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.
Margaret Lindsay was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
Margaret Lindsay's sister, Jane Kies, was an actress under the stage name Jane Gilbert.