51 Facts About Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film Cast a Dark Shadow.

Margaret Lockwood moved to England in 1920 with her mother, brother Lyn and half-brother Frank.

Margaret Lockwood had another half-brother, John, from her father's first marriage, brought up by his mother in Britain.

Margaret Lockwood began studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the Holborn Empire where she played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

In 1933, Margaret Lockwood enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was seen by a talent scout and signed to a contract.

Margaret Lockwood entered films in 1934, and in 1935 she appeared in the film version of Lorna Doone.

Margaret Lockwood was the female love interest in Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, who would become crucial to Lockwood's career.

Margaret Lockwood had the lead in Someday, a quota quickie directed by Michael Powell and in Jury's Evidence, directed by Ralph Ince.

Margaret Lockwood had a small role in The Amateur Gentleman, another with Fairbanks.

Margaret Lockwood's profile rose when she appeared opposite Maurice Chevalier in The Beloved Vagabond.

Margaret Lockwood followed it with Irish for Luck and The Street Singer.

Margaret Lockwood then had her best chance to-date, being given the lead in Bank Holiday, directed by Carol Reed and produced by Black.

Margaret Lockwood has an undoubted gift in expressing her beauty in terms of emotion, which is exceptionally well suited to the camera.

Margaret Lockwood followed this with A Girl Must Live, a musical comedy about chorus girls for Black and Reed.

Margaret Lockwood travelled to Los Angeles and was put to work supporting Shirley Temple in Susannah of the Mounties.

Margaret Lockwood was borrowed by Paramount for Rulers of the Sea, with Will Fyffe and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Margaret Lockwood was meant to make film versions of Rob Roy and The Blue Lagoon but both projects were cancelled with the advent of war.

Margaret Lockwood did another with Reed, Night Train to Munich, an attempt to repeat the success of The Lady Vanishes with the same screenwriters and characters of Charters and Caldicott.

Margaret Lockwood was meant to be reunited with Reed and Redgrave in The Girl in the News but Redgrave withdrew, and he was replaced by Barry K Barnes: Black produced and Sidney Gilliat wrote the script.

Margaret Lockwood was meant to appear in Hatter's Castle, but she withdrew because of pregnancy.

Margaret Lockwood wanted to play the part of Clarissa, but producer Edward Black cast her as the villainous Hesther.

Margaret Lockwood was featured alongside Phyllis Calvert, James Mason and Stewart Granger for director Leslie Arliss.

Margaret Lockwood appeared in two comedies for Black: Dear Octopus with Michael Wilding from a play by Dodie Smith, which Lockwood felt was a backward step and Give Us the Moon, with Vic Oliver directed by Val Guest.

Margaret Lockwood was reunited with James Mason in A Place of One's Own, playing a housekeeper possessed by the spirit of a dead girl, but the film was not a success.

Margaret Lockwood had the biggest success of her career to-date with the title role in The Wicked Lady for director Arliss.

In 1946, Margaret Lockwood gained the Daily Mail National Film Awards First Prize for most popular British film actress.

Margaret Lockwood was offered the role of Bianca in The Magic Bow but disliked the part and turned it down.

In July 1946, Margaret Lockwood signed a six-year contract with Rank to make two movies a year.

Margaret Lockwood was a warden in The White Unicorn, a melodrama from the team of Harold Huth and John Corfield.

Rank wanted to star her in a film about Mary Magdalene but Margaret Lockwood was unhappy with the script.

Margaret Lockwood refused to appear in Roses for Her Pillow and was put on suspension.

Margaret Lockwood appeared in an acclaimed TV production of Pygmalion.

Margaret Lockwood had a change of pace with the comedy Cardboard Cavalier, with Margaret Lockwood playing Nell Gwyn.

That same year, Margaret Lockwood was announced to play Becky Sharp in a film adaptation of Vanity Fair but it was not made.

Margaret Lockwood was in the melodrama Madness of the Heart, but the film was not a particular success.

Margaret Lockwood returned to film-making after an 18-month absence to star in Highly Dangerous, a comic thriller in the vein of Lady Vanishes, written expressly for her by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker.

Margaret Lockwood turned down the female lead in The Browning Version, and a proposed sequel to The Wicked Lady, The Wicked Lady's Daughter, was never made.

In 1952, Margaret Lockwood signed a two picture a year contract with Herbert Wilcox at $112,000 a year, making her the best paid actress in British films.

Margaret Lockwood appeared on TV in Ann Veronica and another TV adaptation of the Shaw play Captain Brassbound's Conversion.

Margaret Lockwood returned to the stage in Spider's Web by Agatha Christie, expressly written for her.

Margaret Lockwood then appeared in Cast a Dark Shadow with Dirk Bogarde for director Lewis Gilbert.

Margaret Lockwood was in a BBC adaptation of Christie's Spider's Web, Janet Green's Murder Mistaken, Dodie Smith's Call It a Day and Arnold Bennett's The Great Adventure.

Margaret Lockwood had the lead in a TV series The Royalty and appeared regularly on TV anthology series.

Margaret Lockwood played an aging West End star attempting a comeback in The Human Jungle with Herbert Lom.

Margaret Lockwood starred in another series The Flying Swan.

Margaret Lockwood was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1981 New Year Honours.

Margaret Lockwood was the subject on an episode of This Is Your Life in December 1963.

Margaret Lockwood was a guest on the radio show Desert Island Discs on 25 April 1951.

Margaret Lockwood married Rupert Leon whom she had met in her teens and secretly married in 1937 when she turned 21; they divorced in 1950.

Margaret Lockwood lived her final years in seclusion in Kingston upon Thames, dying on 15 July 1990 at age 73 at the Cromwell Hospital from cirrhosis of the liver, though she was not a drinker.

Margaret Lockwood was survived by her daughter, the actress Julia Lockwood.