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Margo Moore Profile
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| (Marguerite Guarnerius / Guarnery) |
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| 29 April 31 | is born in Chicago, Illinois, into an old Italian violin-making family |
| c. 44 | is stricken with polio at age 13 and has to spend two years in a hip-to-shoulder cast |
| ? | studies at the University of Indiana |
| ? | is a New York cover girl and fashion model in top periodicals |
| Mid-50s | marries Joe Warner |
| ? | is on TV in "The Arthur Godfrey Show" |
| c. 59 | Warner Brothers drops her as a no-talent kid, but 20th Century-Fox signs her as the temptress in Hound Dog Man |
| as Margo / Marg Warner, she signs a long-term contract with 20th Century-Fox |
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| ? | her son, Darryl, is born |
| ? | divorces Warner |
| ? | changes her name to Margo Moore |
| February 60 | columnist Dorothy Kilgallen reports that Buddy Adler has ordered an all-out publicity campaign to spur Margo’s career "because he thinks she'll be his studio's next important glamour doll." |
| April 60 | columnist Earl Wilson tells that "Actress Margo Moore, who lives in the Village, bought herself a raccoon coat for $30 at a thrift shop (because she's thrifty). Not knowing she's in pictures, including Wake Me When It's Over, Village kids refer to it as a horse blanket and ask her 'Is the horse cold?'..." |
| August 60 | columnist Lee Mortimer knows that "her romance, producer Bob Radnitz, went down the drain when Maurice Rosenblatt came in..." |
| September 60 | columnist Hedda Hopper tells: "Although the romance is ended for Radnitz and Margo Moore, she gave him a birthday party before he went on location..." |
| c. 61 | organizes the Edwardians, a theatrically-oriented group |
| February 61 | Mortimer tells: "That Margo Moore-Bob Radnitz fire burned out in Malibu..." |
| March 61 | Mortimer's back on her: "The John Saxon-Margo Moore romance is getting hotter and hotter..." |
| March 62 | is seen at the Villa Nova with Harold Phaft |
| ? | is in the portrait photography business in San Francisco |
| Mid-80s | opens The Chocolate Garden, a candy store at 79th Street and Third Avenue in New York |
| ? | marries Joseph "Joe" Arthur Knedlhans, an officer with the NYPD. He's 21 years her junior. |
| ? | she and Knedlhans live in New York |
| 90s | she and Knedlhans move to Adamstown, Pennsylvania, where they open a Toy Robot and Pig Museum in Stoudtburg Village |
| 16 December 00 | as Margo Moore Knedlhans, she dies at age 69 |
| Sources: The Daily Review, Appleton Post-Crescent, Post-Gazette, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Oneonta Daily Star, The Times Recorder, Kingsport News, The Lima News, San Fernando Valley Living, Humboldt Standard, The Vidette-Messenger, www.Ancestry.com | |
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