Margo Lee

Margaret Stella Lee (20 June 1923 – 16 October 1987) credited as Margo Lee, was an Australian actor and singer of radio, stage, film and TV.^[1]

Life

Lee was in 1923 in the Leichhardt area of Sydney. Her parents were Margaret Clara (born Draper) and a dentist named John Llewellin Hogg.^[1]

She worked briefly in Hollywood.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Into the Straight (1949) as Zara Marlowe
The Twelve Pound Look (1956) (TV movie) as Kate^[3]
The Importance of Being Earnest^[4] (1957) (TV movie) as Gwendolyn
Don't Listen Ladies (1963) (TV movie) as Madeleine
Flowering Cherry (1963) (TV movie) as Isobel Cherry
Tim (1979) as Mrs Harrington
Starstruck (1982) as Pearl

Television

Whiplash (1959-60)
Stormy Petrel (1960)^[4] as Elizabeth Macarthur
The Outcasts (1961) as Mrs John MacArthur
The Purple Jacaranda (1964) (miniseries) as Anne James
Voyage Out (1969)
The Mike Walsh Show (1977) (TV series) Song performance "My Hero" with Dinah Lee, Tim Hall & Phil Haldeman
Run From the Morning (1978) (miniseries)
Patrol Boat (1979-83) as Matron Whylie
The Mike Walsh Show (1983) (TV series) Guest as herself.

Theatre

Top of the Bill (1954) at Phillip Street Theatre
Charlie Girl (1971) at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne

References

^ ^a ^b Martha Rutledge, 'Lee, Margaret Stella (Meg) (1923–1987)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lee-margaret-stella-meg-14146/text25157, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 29 May 2016.
^ "Family first for Margo Lee". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 23, no. 4[?]. Australia. 25 April 1956. p. 15. Retrieved 29 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Vagg, Stephen (30 January 2022). "Forgotten Australian Television Plays: The Twelve Pound Look". Filmink. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b Rutledge, Martha, "Margaret Stella (Meg) Lee (1923–1987)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 4 August 2024

External links

Margo Lee at IMDb

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[:0-1] Martha Rutledge, 'Lee, Margaret Stella (Meg) (1923–1987)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lee-margaret-stella-meg-14146/text25157, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 29 May 2016.

[2] "Family first for Margo Lee". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 23, no. 4[?]. Australia. 25 April 1956. p. 15. Retrieved 29 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

[pound-3] Vagg, Stephen (30 January 2022). "Forgotten Australian Television Plays: The Twelve Pound Look". Filmink. Retrieved 13 August 2024.

[madrb-4] Rutledge, Martha, "Margaret Stella (Meg) Lee (1923–1987)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 4 August 2024

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