Margaret Clancey

Last updated
Margaret Clancey
Born
Margaret Virginia Lysight

July 29, 1897
Tucson, Arizona, USA
DiedMarch 8, 1989
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation(s)Film editor, actress
Years active1915-1940
SpouseJames Clancey

Margaret Clancey (sometimes credited as Margaret V. Clancy or under her birth name, Margaret Lysight) was an American film editor and actress. Clancey edited 30 Hollywood films at Fox and United Artists from 1927 to 1938.

Contents

Biography

Margaret, daughter of Austin Lysight and Cornelia Hill, was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. In her teens, after graduating from high school (where she was class valedictorian, wrote for her high school magazine, and starred in school plays), she moved to Los Angeles in 1915 to pursue an acting career. [1] [2]

She quickly found work in minor roles at Keystone and Fine Arts; she played several minor roles in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance , and also appeared in Diane of the Follies , Hands-Up, Madame Bo Peep, and Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo . [3] [4] In 1917, she got her big break when she was cast in a lead role as an ingenue in Kisaburô Kurihara's Yume No Tabiji, shot in Yokohama, Japan. She stayed in Japan for two years. [1] [5]

She returned to Los Angeles in 1919, where she worked as a member of Allan Dwan's company and married photographer James Clancey. That same year, she found employment as a film editor at Select Pictures. [6] By 1925, she was working at Fox, and later she found herself at United Artists. She did not receive credits on many of her earliest editing jobs.

Selected filmography

Related Research Articles

<i>Bad Girl</i> (1931 film) 1931 film

Bad Girl is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Sally Eilers, James Dunn, and Minna Gombell. The screenplay was adapted by Edwin J. Burke from the 1928 novel by Viña Delmar and the 1930 play by Delmar and Brian Marlowe. The plot follows the courtship and marriage of two young, working-class people and the misunderstandings that result from their not having learned to trust and communicate with one another. The film propelled then-unknown actors Eilers and Dunn to stardom. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Borzage</span> American film director and actor (1894–1962)

Frank Borzage was an American film director and actor. He was the first person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his film 7th Heaven (1927) at the 1st Academy Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur Edeson</span> American cinematographer (1891–1970)

Arthur Edeson, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer. Born in New York City, his career ran from the formative years of the film industry in New York, through the silent era in Hollywood, and the sound era there in the 1930s and 1940s. His work included many landmarks in film history, including The Thief of Bagdad (1924), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Frankenstein (1931), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ricardo Cortez</span> American actor (1900–1977)

Ricardo Cortez was an American actor and film director. He was also credited as Jack Crane early in his acting career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmel Myers</span> American actress (1899–1980)

Carmel Myers was an American actress who achieved her greatest successes in silent film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roy William Neill</span> Irish-American film director (1887–1946)

Roy William Neill was an Irish-born American film director best known for producing and directing almost all of the Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, made between 1943 and 1946 and released by Universal Pictures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rochelle Hudson</span> Actress

Rochelle Hudson was an American film actress from the 1930s through the 1960s. Hudson was a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pauline Starke</span> American actress

Pauline Starke was an American silent-film actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pauline Garon</span> Canadian actress (1900–1965)

Marie Pauline Garon was a Canadian silent film, feature film, and stage actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Virginia Lee Corbin</span> American actress (1910–1942)

Virginia Lee Corbin was an American silent film actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret Mann</span> Scottish-American actress (1868–1941)

Margaret Mann, was a Scottish-American actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helen Jerome Eddy</span> American actress

Helen Jerome Eddy was a movie actress from New York City. She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Alden</span> American actress (1883–1946)

Mary Maguire Alden was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Stockdale</span> American actor (1874–1953)

Carl Stockdale also known as Carlton Stockdale was one of the longest-working Hollywood veteran actors, with a career dating from the early 1910s. He also made the difficult transition from silent films to talkies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sally Eilers</span> American actress (1910–1981)

Dorothea Sally Eilers was an American actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dorothy Burgess</span> American actress (1907–1961)

Dorothy Burgess was an American stage and motion-picture actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lloyd Ingraham</span> American actor and director

Lloyd Chauncey Ingraham was an American film actor and director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Josephine Dunn</span> American actress (1906–1983)

Mary Josephine Dunn was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur Stone (actor)</span> American actor (1883–1940)

Arthur Stone was an American character actor of the late silent and early sound film eras.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elza Temary</span> German actress

Elza Temary [Elsa Temary] was a Hungarian film actress.

References

  1. 1 2 Hughston, Mary C. (August 5, 1917). "To Fame Via Orient Is Tucson Girl's Fortune". The Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Clever Number of The Tucsonian". The Arizona Daily Star. February 8, 1914. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Young Tucson Woman in Broadway Pictures". The Arizona Daily Star. July 27, 1916. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Tucson Girl Takes Prominent Part in Picture Intolerance". The Arizona Daily Star. February 2, 1917. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Lysight, Margaret (August 18, 1918). "Letters from a Tucson Girl Domiciled in a Japanese City". The Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Margaret Lysight Weds Jas. Clancey, Eluding Friends". The Arizona Daily Star. April 14, 1923. Retrieved February 20, 2019.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.