Margaret Thompson — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Margaret Thompson, after working as an extra girl for three months with the New York Motion Picture Corporation, was taken into the stock company in December, 1913.

Her opportunity came when one of the leading ladies met with an accident and could not work.

The company was not able to get anyone to take her place and the story was being held up. She overheard the director and the manager discussing the matter and trying to decide who should be given the part.

Realizing that this was her chance and convinced that she could do the part, she approached the manager, who, in a very dubious manner, gave her the part.

Her first real difficulty came in the big dramatic scene. Try as she would she could not seem to put the proper punch into her work until she heard a sarcastic remark about her ability. Spurred to greater effort by this, she did nobly.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, October 1914