Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

Birthday: 1902-12-09

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film actress known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actor in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. She also gained recognition for her work as an advocate of causes designed to benefit children and animals, and retained a lifelong commitment to public education.

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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and ...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...

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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered H...

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The Red Pony
The Red Pony

Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, the little boy at the heart of this John Steinbeck story set in Sal...

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The Anderson Tapes
The Anderson Tapes

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her pos...

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The Night Strangler
The Night Strangler

After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job ...

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Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir...

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Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He ...

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Comin' Round the Mountain
Comin' Round the Mountain

Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy ...

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A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law...

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The Invisible Woman
The Invisible Woman

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that wil...

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My Little Chickadee
My Little Chickadee

While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked ...

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13 Ghosts
13 Ghosts

The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. ...

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Guest in the House
Guest in the House

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. T...

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Nothing Sacred
Nothing Sacred

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper ...

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Saratoga
Saratoga

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....

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The Making of the Wizard of Oz
The Making of the Wizard of Oz

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, h...

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You Only Live Once
You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre...

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The Villain Still Pursued Her
The Villain Still Pursued Her

Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Sav...

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These Three
These Three

Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local do...

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Another Language
Another Language

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages....

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Broadway Bill
Broadway Bill

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daugh...

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Driftwood
Driftwood

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely o...

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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...

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Angels Wash Their Faces
Angels Wash Their Faces

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...

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The Moon's Our Home
The Moon's Our Home

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that...

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Wabash Avenue
Wabash Avenue

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thrivin...

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Riding High
Riding High

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the b...

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Play Girl
Play Girl

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her ...

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The Sun Comes Up
The Sun Comes Up

Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness...

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Mountain Justice
Mountain Justice

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej...

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Hat, Coat and Glove
Hat, Coat and Glove

A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder...

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I'll Take Romance
I'll Take Romance

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace M...

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The Farmer Takes a Wife
The Farmer Takes a Wife

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm....

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Stablemates
Stablemates

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down...

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There's Always Tomorrow
There's Always Tomorrow

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a for...

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Chatterbox
Chatterbox

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes th...

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The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

A Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde which aired only once on October 29, 1976 ...

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Janie Gets Married
Janie Gets Married

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her fath...

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Rosie!
Rosie!

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have...

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By Your Leave
By Your Leave

A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes....

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Paradise Alley
Paradise Alley

An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the live...

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Mother Carey's Chickens
Mother Carey's Chickens

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town....

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The Affairs of Martha
The Affairs of Martha

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids i...

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Way Down East
Way Down East

A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the wo...

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When's Your Birthday?
When's Your Birthday?

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes...

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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Ta...

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The Daydreamer
The Daydreamer

A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to ma...

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Breaking the Ice
Breaking the Ice

The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Jo...

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Ghostbreakers
Ghostbreakers

A professor and his beautiful assistant investigate a murder which occurs in a supposedly haunted ho...

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City Without Men
City Without Men

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to...

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People Will Talk
People Will Talk

A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy...

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Faithful in My Fashion
Faithful in My Fashion

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, i...

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Laughing at Trouble
Laughing at Trouble

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publ...

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The Witness Chair
The Witness Chair

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker...

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George White's Scandals
George White's Scandals

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical....

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The Gay Vagabond
The Gay Vagabond

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business....

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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She...

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The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

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Meet the Stewarts
Meet the Stewarts

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....

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Johnny Come Lately
Johnny Come Lately

Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. ...

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Reaching from Heaven
Reaching from Heaven

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in...

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Bungalow 13
Bungalow 13

In this detective drama, a gumshoe must find a priceless hunk of jade. His several leads evaporate w...

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Main Street Lawyer
Main Street Lawyer

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmaile...

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State of the Union
State of the Union

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both ...

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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The Dark Side of the Rainbow

The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side o...

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Twin Beds
Twin Beds

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany fr...

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Dishonored Lady
Dishonored Lady

Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with a...

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Angel in My Pocket
Angel in My Pocket

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens....

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A String of Blue Beads
A String of Blue Beads

A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology series of...

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The Good Old Soak
The Good Old Soak

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....

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To Oz! The Making of a Classic
To Oz! The Making of a Classic

A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of ...

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I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now
I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now

In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their young...

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The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NB...

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Letters from Frank
Letters from Frank

When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a compute...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of c...

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Journey Back to Oz
Journey Back to Oz

Dorothy and Toto return to Oz to find the Scarecrow ruling the Emerald City. Unfortunately for the n...

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The Bat
The Bat

A sinister criminal known only as "The Bat" attempts to locate a fortune in stolen securities suppos...

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The World of Abbott and Costello
The World of Abbott and Costello

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Na...

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On Borrowed Time
On Borrowed Time

Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather ch...

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Four's a Crowd
Four's a Crowd

A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter....

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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Zoo in Budapest
Zoo in Budapest

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true frien...

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Oz
Oz

A behind-the-scenes look at the 1939 Wizard of Oz film adaptation that tested the limits of its crea...

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The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere will transport audiences, making them feel like they have stepped inside ...

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