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  Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (February 26, 1922 –; January 13, 1976) was an English actress.
Leighton's Broadway debut was as the Queen in Henry IV (1946) starring Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson during a visit to America of the Old Vic company, which performed a total of five plays from its repertoire before returning to London.
Margaret Leighton died of multiple sclerosis at the age of fifty-three in Chichester, West Sussex.
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 John Culme's Footlight Notes - Celebrity of the Week: Margaret Leighton (c.1852-1908), Welsh born actress - Week ending ...
Miss Leighton, on the other hand, should have been born a quarter of a century before she was, when Sheridan Knowles [1784-1862] was accepted as a substitute for Shakespeare, and poets like Dean Milman and Westland Marston had a hearing on the stage.
Miss Leighton was called before the curtain at the conclusion of every act and loudly cheered." (Daily News, [London] March 1874.) Subsequently at the same theatre she played various Shakespearian parts, In October 1874 she played Romeo at the Prince’s Theatre, Manchester, in Mr.
Margaret Alcott, 60 years of age, who had resided for some time at Powis-square, Bayswater [London], was found shot in a first-class compartment of a train on the Metropolitan Railway late on Tuesday night [3 March 1908].
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 Margaret Leighton
British theatre actress Margaret Leighton made her classical stage debut...
Her frequent co-star on both stage and screen was Ralph Richardson.
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