Margaret Phillips (6 July 1923 – 9 September 1984) was a Welsh-born actress who was active on Broadway from the 1940s and in television in the 1950s and 1960s.
Margaret Phillips was born at Cwmgwrach, South Wales. She moved to the United States with her parents at age 16 and attended Walton High School, a girls' school in the Bronx.[1][2] She performed in summer theatre at Woodstock, New York and trained with actor Cecil Clovelly.[3]
^Murray Schumach, "From Cwmgwrach to Broadway" New York Times (31 October 1948): X1.
^ ab"Margaret Phillips Dies at 61; Veteran Broadway Actress" New York Times (11 September 1984).
^"Stratford's Olivia Finds Luck Important to Career" Bridgeport Post (10 July 1960): 31. via Newspapers.com
^Louis Calta, "Margaret Phillips Wins Stage Award" New York Times (8 May 1947): 31.
^"For Fourth Year in a Row" Billboard (23 August 1947): 49.
^George Tucker, "All Broadway is Talking about Phillips; Hailed 'Born Actress'" Terre Haute Tribune (28 November 1948): 23. via Newspapers.com
^Louis Sheaffer, "Miss Phillips' Accent Returns for an English 'Cocktail Party'" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (5 June 1950): 5. via Newspapers.com
^Edward P. Halline, "Lahr Brings Dream to Delightful Life in Bard's Midsummer Night Fantasy" Milwaukee Sentinel (20 November 1960): 6B.
^Patricia King Hanson and Amy Dunkleberger, eds., AFI: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States (University of California Press 1999): 1372. ISBN9780520215214
^Tony Howard, "When Peter met Orson: The 1953 CBS King Lear" in Linda E. Bose and Richard Burt, eds., Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video (Psychology Press 1997): 125. ISBN9780415165853
^Dick Kleiner, "The Actors Studio: Making Stars out of the Unknown" Sarasota Journal (21 December 1956): 26.
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