Clark, Marguerite

Clark, Marguerite

▪ American actress
in full  Helen Marguerite Clark 
born Feb. 22, 1883, Avondale [now in Cincinnati], Ohio, U.S.
died Sept. 25, 1940, New York, N.Y.

      American actress whose tiny figure and air of sweet youthful innocence made her enormously popular and a major rival of Mary Pickford (Pickford, Mary).

      Clark was under the guardianship of an elder sister from the age of 13. With her sister's encouragement she sought a career on the stage. She made her New York debut in 1900 and had a number of minor roles before winning the ingenue role of Polly in Mr. Pickwick in 1903; this role brought her her first popularity. Over the next decade her fame grew. She appeared in Victor Herbert (Herbert, Victor)'s Babes in Toyland (1903), The Pied Piper (1908), and the very popular Baby Mine (1910), among many other plays.

      In 1914 Clark accepted a lavish offer from Adolph Zukor and signed on with his Famous Players film company (soon to become Famous Players-Lasky and eventually Paramount). Her first film, Wildflower, was a great success and was followed over the next five years by such films as The Crucible, Gretna Green, Seven Sisters, The Prince and the Pauper (in which she played both roles), Topsy and Eva (another double role, in a screenplay based on Uncle Tom's Cabin), Rich Man Poor Man, Snow White, and others. Clark's portrayal of Snow White was said to have shaped the much later Walt Disney (Disney Company) animated version. She married in 1918, and a year later, on the expiration of her contract, she retired from the movies. She returned only to appear in Scrambled Wives in 1921.

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