Celebrity Grave: "Annie Hall" Actress Janet Margolin

Janet Margolin (July 25, 1943 – December 17, 1993) was an American theater, television and film actress.

Early life

Margolin was born in New York City, the daughter of Benjamin Margolin, an accountant who was born in Russia and was founder and president of the Nephrosis Foundation, now the Kidney Foundation of New York. Her mother was Annette Margolin (maiden name Lief, the daughter of Abraham and Nina Lief).

She attended the School of Performing Arts. In 1961, at age 18, while a prop girl at the New York Shakespeare Festival, she won a "pivotal" Broadway stage role as Anna in Morris West's Daughters of Silence.[1]; the New York Times, reviewing the play, listed her among leaders of "a fine cast" and said that "her Anna has a fragile, haunted dewiness."[2]

Career

In 1962, she played her first movie role as the female lead in the film David and Lisa. She played the love interest of the lead character in the movie Enter Laughing (1967).

In Take the Money and Run (1969) she played the love interest of the bumbling thief played by Woody Allen, and in Annie Hall (1977) she played the social-climbing wife of the Woody Allen character.

Her last movie role was in Ghostbusters II in 1989, and her last television roles were as a killer on an episode of Murder, She Wrote ("Deadly Misunderstanding") and as a victim in Columbo ("Murder in Malibu") in 1990.

Personal life

Margolin died of ovarian cancer at the age of 50 on December 17, 1993, in Los Angeles, California. She was cremated and her ashes were placed in an urn garden at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. She was survived by her siblings, Emily, Barbara and Laura; her husband, actor/director Ted Wass; and their two children, Julian and Tilly.

Margolin is sometimes identified as the sister of actor Stuart Margolin and his brother, director Arnold Margolin. However, obituaries of Margolin and her father indicate that she had no brothers.[3][4]

Filmography

David and Lisa (1962)
Morituri (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
Nevada Smith (1966)
El ojo que espía (1966)
Enter Laughing (1967)
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Pray for the Wildcats (1973)
Planet Earth (1974)
Annie Hall (1977)
Last Embrace (1979)
Ghostbusters II (1989)

References

1.^ Calta, Louis (1961), "Prop Girl, 18, Wins a Broadway Lead," The New York Times, September 6, 1961, p. 41
2.^ Taubman, Howard (1961), "The Theatre: 'Daughter of Silence,'", The New York Times, December 1, 1961, p. 28
3.^ Janet Margolin, Film And TV Actress, 50 - New York Times
4.^ BENJAMIN MARGOLIN - New York Times