Margaret Roach

Margaret appeared in numerous Hal Roach productions, including Turnabout, Road Show, and Captain Fury. When the press called her "plump," she went to a sanitarium to lose weight. In October 1940, she was hospitalized with a serious heart ailment. A few months later, she announced her engagement to airline executive Geoffrey Steele, but they broke up before the wedding. Following her mother's death in 1941, she was briefly estranged from her father. She married Lieutenant E.L. Hinton in August 1942, and they divorced three years later. She continued in films like A Haunting We Will Go and Here Comes Trouble, though most of her roles were uncredited bit parts.

On December 18, 1947, she married actor Robert Livingston Randall, and they had a son named Addison. After making the 1949 crime drama The Devil's Sleep, she quit acting. The marriage ended in 1951, and she received full custody of her son. By then, she was dealing with a serious alcohol problem. In 1960, she was injured when her limousine crashed into a fire truck. She soon moved to Reno, Nevada. She died on November 25, 1964, from cirrhosis of the liver caused by chronic alcoholism, at age 42. She was buried near her mother at Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles. Her son Addison Randall also became an actor. Margaret was an American actress with red hair and a slim build.