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Margaret Carthew, Peggy Graves, and Peggy Grove in Footlight Parade (1933)

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Margaret Carthew

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  • Born
    January 31, 1909 · Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • Died
    August 6, 1942 · Los Angeles, California, USA (breast cancer)

Biography

    • Margaret Carthew was born in Florida. She lived in Palm Beach and started her career as a dancer on the stage,when she was a teenager. In the early 1930's she went to Hollywood with her parents,where she found work as a dancer on stage and as a dance-instructor. She became a dancer in films,and worked in nearly all the Busby Berkeley-movies in the 1930's. In 1934 she received a longterm-contract by Warner Bros,but was only seen in bit and extra parts. She was in the news in 1935,when the famous actor George Brent said in a newspaper that he thought that Margaret Carthew was one of the most beautiful women in the world.
      - IMDb mini biography by: Norbert

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  • United States census records for 1930 place her as already living in Los Angeles that year.
  • She died of breast-cancer at 33 in 1942.

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  • But it isn't work. I have always loved it.

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