Margaret Landis
Margaret Cullen Landis was an American silent screen actress who appeared in at least 41 films between 1915 and 1931.
Biography
Margaret Cullen Landis was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of Lulan and Margaret Landis. Her father was a stockbroker and her younger brother, Cullen Landis was a successful silent film director and actor. She began her career with Balboa Studios as a dancer in the 1915 film Who Pays.Near the midpoint of her career she took some time off to study art, eventually returning to film work around 1921.
Landis married film director Bertram Bracken on April 5, 1919, and they divorced in 1924. She married James Hamilton Couper, a World War I veteran who came from a prominent Lower [Coastal Plain (Georgia)|Georgia Coast] family, in 1930.
Both Margaret and her brother Cullen left Hollywood soon after the arrival of sound. Margaret Landis’ last film was the talkie Sheer Luck.
Landis had a stroke in 1969 and died on April 8, 1981, at Alameda, California, and is interred with her husband at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
Selected filmography
Code of the Yukon- Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
- Mr. Fix-It The Confession Parted Curtains
- Harriet and the Piper
- Sowing the Wind Ashes The Ladder Jinx Rose o' the Sea Alice Adams What Wives Want The [Cricket on the Hearth (1923 film)|The Cricket on the Hearth] The Love Brand The Miracle Baby A Million to Burn The Slanderers Passion's Pathway The Western Wallop Her Man Fighter's Paradise A Fighting Heart The Empire Builders Trigger Fingers My Man An Enemy Of Men Youth and Adventure
- The Latest from Paris
- ''Sheer Luck''