Clark, Marguerite

(1883-1940)

   Born in Cincinnati, Marguerite Clark began her career in the chorus of a Milton Aborn touring musical. Bit roles in musicals like The Belle of Bohemia (1900) led to a leading role in The Wild Rose (1902) and a stint as De Wolf Hopper's costar in a series of musicals including Mr. Pickwick (1903), a revival of Wang (1904), Happyland (1905), and The Pied Piper (1908). Clark also won acclaim in Margaret Mayo's comedy Baby Mine (1910) and costarred with John Barrymore in The Affairs of Anatol (1912). She received approving notices in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912) and as the title character of Winthrop Ames's production of Harley Granville-Barker's harlequinade, Prunella (1913), after which she spent most of her career in motion pictures, repeating roles like Prunella and Snow White, as well as Little Eva and Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918).