Margaret Livingston was an American film actress, most notable for her work during the silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 era.
She was sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingston or Margaret Livingstone. On screen she resembled actress Mae Busch

Mae Busch

Mae Busch was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife.-Early life and career:Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was...

.

Career

Livingston was born in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

. Her older sister Ivy also became a film actress.

The younger Livingston made her debut in silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 in 1916. She made over 50 films during the "silent era", and a further 20 films after she successfully made the transition to sound film in 1929. One of her most notable performances was in F.W. Murnau's Sunrise

Sunrise (film)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, also known as Sunrise, is a 1927 American silent film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "Die Reise nach Tilsit" by Hermann Sudermann.Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production...

(1927). She occasionally dubbed voices for some other actresses, including Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks

Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...

 for The Canary Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case

The Canary Murder Case is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of a sexy nightclub singer known as "the Canary," and eventually, that of her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance. S. S. Van Dine's classic whodunnit, second in the Philo Vance series, is said by Howard Haycraft to have...

(1929).

In 1931 she married the band leader Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman

Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader and orchestral director.Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz"...

, and retired from film acting in 1934.

Livingston was a guest on William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father...

's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 with film director and producer Thomas Ince

Thomas H. Ince

Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...

 who later died of heart failure. In the Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola...

 film The Cat's Meow

The Cat's Meow

The Cat's Meow is a 2001 drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley, and Jennifer Tilly. The screenplay by Steven Peros is based on his play of the same title, which was inspired by the mysterious death of film...

(2001), Livingston, played by Claudia Harrison

Claudia Harrison

Claudia Harrison is an English actress. She was educated at Bradfield College and Birmingham University, from where she graduated with a 1st class honours degree...

, is depicted as having an affair with Ince at the time of his death.

Livingston died in Warrington, Pennsylvania.

Filmography

• The Chain Invisible (1916)
• Alimony (1917) (as Marguerite Livingston) as Florence
• Within the Cup (1918)
• The Busher (1919)
• All Wrong (1919) (as Marguerite Livingston) as Ethel Goodwin
• Haunting Shadows (1920) (as Marguerite Livingston) as Marian Deveraux
• What's Your Husband Doing? (1920) as Madge Mitchell
• Water, Water Everywhere (1920) as Martha Beecher
• Hairpins
  Hairpins
  Hairpins is a 1920 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo.-Cast:* Enid Bennett - Muriel Rossmore* Matt Moore - Rex Rossmore* William Conklin - Hal Gordon* Margaret Livingston - Effie Wainwright* Grace Morse - Mrs. Kent...
  
  (1920) as Effie Wainwright
• The Brute Master (1920) as The Native 'Taupou'
• The Parish Priest (1920) as Agnnes Cassidy
• Lying Lips (1921) as Lelia Dodson
• The Home Stretch (1921) as Molly
• Colorado Pluck (1921) as Angela Featherstone
• Passing Through (1921) as Louise Kingston
• Eden and Return (1921) as Connie Demarest
• The Social Buccaneer
  The Social Buccaneer
  The Social Buccaneer is a 1923 film serial directed by Robert F. Hill.-Cast:* Jack Mulhall - Jack Norton* Margaret Livingston - Princess Elise* William Welsh - Raymond Norton* Harry De Vere - Harvey Vail* Wade Boteler - Madison Ames...
  
  (1923) as Princess Elise
• Divorce (1923) as Gloria Gayne
• Love's Whirlpool (1924) as A Maid
• Wandering Husbands (1924) as Marilyn Foster
• Her Marriage Vow (1924) as Estelle Winslow
• Butterfly (1924) as Violet Van De Wort
• The Chorus Lady (1924) as Patricia O'Brien
• Capital Punishment (1925) as Mona Caldwell
• Up the Ladder (1925) as Helen Newhall
• I'll Show You the Town (1925) as Lucille Pemberton
• Greater Than a Crown (1925) as Molly Montrose
• The Wheel (1925) as Elsie Dixon
• Havoc (1925) as Violet Deering
• After Marriage (1925) as Alma Lathrop
• The Best People (1925) as Millie Montgomery
• When the Door Opened (1925) as Mrs. Grenfal
• Wages for Wives (1925) as Carol Bixby
• The Yankee Señor (1926) as Flora
• Hell's 400 (1926) as Evelyn Vance
• A Trip to Chinatown
  A Trip to Chinatown
  A Trip to Chinatown is a musical comedy in three acts by Charles H. Hoyt with music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Hoyt, that became a silent film featuring Anna May Wong half a century later. In addition to the Gaunt and Hoyt score, many songs were interpolated into the score at one time or another...
  
  (1926) as Alicia Cuyer
• The Blue Eagle
  The Blue Eagle
  The Blue Eagle is a 1926 action film directed by John Ford. Prints of the film exist in the Library of Congress film archive and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.-Cast:* George O'Brien - George Darcy* Janet Gaynor - Rose Kelly...
  
  (1926) as Mrs. Mary Rohan
• Womanpower (1926) as Dot
• Breed of the Sea (1926) as Marietta Rawdon
• Slaves of Beauty (1927) as Goldie
• Secret Studio (1927) as Nina Clark
• Lightning (1927) as Dot Deal/Little Eva
• Married Alive (1927) as Amy Duxbury
• The Girl from Gay Paree (1927) as Gertie
• Sunrise
  Sunrise (film)
  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, also known as Sunrise, is a 1927 American silent film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "Die Reise nach Tilsit" by Hermann Sudermann.Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production...
  
  (1927) as The Woman from the City
• American Beauty (1927) as Mrs. Gillespie
• Streets of Shanghai (1927) as Sadie
• A Woman's Way (1928)
• Mad Hour (1928) as Maid
• The Scarlet Dove (1928) as Olga
• Wheel of Chance (1928) as Josie Drew
• The Way of the Strong (1928) as Marie
• Say It with Sables (1928) as Irene Gordon
• Through the Breakers (1928) as Diane Garrett
• Beware of Bachelors (1928) as Miss Pfeffer, the vamp
• His Private Life (1928) as Yvette Bérgere
• The Apache (1928) as Sonya
• The Last Warning (1929) as Evalinda
• Bellamy Trial (1929) as Mimi Bellamy
• The Canary Murder Case
  The Canary Murder Case (film)
  The Canary Murder Case is a crime/mystery film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle.The screenplay was written by S.S. Van Dine , Albert S. Le Vino and Florence Ryerson, based on novel The Canary Murder Case by S.S...
  
  (1929) (voice only, dubbed dialogue for Louise Brooks
  Louise Brooks
  Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...
  
  ) as Margaret Odell
• The Office Scandal (1929) as Lillian Tracy
• The Charlatan (1929) as Florence
• Innocents of Paris (1929) as Madame Renard
• Tonight at Twelve (1929) as Nan Stoddard
• Acquitted (1929) as Marian
• Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929) as Myra Thornhill
• Murder on the Roof
  Murder on the Roof
  -Cast:* Dorothy Revier as Molly* Raymond Hatton as Drinkwater* Margaret Livingston as Marcia* David Newell as Ted Palmer* Paul Porcasi as Joe Carozzo* Virginia Brown Faire as Monica* William V. Mong as Anthony Sommers* Louis Natheaux as Victor...
  
  (1930) as Marcia
• For the Love o' Lil (1930) as Eleanor Cartwright
• What a Widow! (1930) as Valli
• Big Money (1930) as Mae
• The Lady Refuses (1931) as Berthine Waller
• Kiki (1931) as Paulette Vaile
• God's Gift to Women (1931) as Tania Donaliff
• Smart Money (1931) as District Attorney's girl
• Broadminded (1931) as Mabel Robinson
• Call Her Savage (1932) as Molly
• The Social Register (1934) as Gloria

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