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Margaret Hamilton
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Actor Born: December 9, 1902 in Cleveland, OH Death: May 16, 1985 in Salisbury, CT Biography:A kindergarten teacher in her native Cleveland, "Margaret Hamilton" began her acting career there in community theatre and with the prestigious Cleveland Playhouse. In 1933, Hamilton was invited to repeat her stage role of the sarcastic daughter-in-law in the Broadway play "Another Language" for the MGM film version. Though only in her early '30s, the gloriously unpretty Hamilton subsequently played dozens of busybodies, gossips, old maids, and housekeepers in films bearing such titles as "Hat, Coat and Glove" (1934), "Way Down East" (1935) and "These Three" (1936). She proved an excellent foil for such comedians as "W.C. Fields" (in 1940's "My Little Chickadee") and "Harold Lloyd" (in 1946's "The Sin of Harold Diddlebock"). Her most famous film assignment was the dual role of Elvira Gulch and the Wicked Witch of the West in the imperishable 1939 gem "The Wizard of Oz" -- a role which nearly cost her... Full Biography
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