Margot Grahame
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Margot Grahame, born Margaret Clark on 20 February 1911, Canterbury, was an actress most noted for starring in The Informer, The Crimson Pirate and Night Waitress.
She started acting in 1930 and made her last screen appearance in 1958, she died on 1 January 1982.
Reared and stage-trained in South Africa, this statuesque blonde was at one time Britain's answer to Jean Harlow and dubbed the 'Aluminium Blonde'. She was the highest-paid actress in England during the 1930s before going to Hollywood where she performed in a number of films of the 30's, 40's and 50's. After the war she dyed her hair and became a redhead. After the death of her third husband in the 70s she became a recluse and developed a drink problem.
She is perhaps best remembered as the prostitute inamorata of Gypo Nolan in John Ford's 'The Informer' 1935.
An anecdote which has been falsely attributed to Margot Asquith -- who never met Jean Harlow -- is apparently a genuine incident which happened to Margot Grahame during her time in Hollywood. When Harlow and Grahame met for the first time, the barely literate Jean Harlow addressed the other actress as "Mar-got", pronouncing the final consonant. Grahame corrected her with a subtle snub: "The 'T' is silent, as in 'Harlow'."
