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Margaret Shelby was a silent film actress and the older sister of Mary Miles Minter
She was born Alma Margaret Reilly on June 16, 1900 in San Antonio, Texas. When she was a child her parents divorced. Her mother, Charlotte Selby, was a domineering woman who pushed Margaret and her younger sister Mary Miles Minter to go into show business. At the age of twelve made her film debut in the silent short Billie. Then she had roles in the films Faith, Her Country’s Call, and Wives and Other Wives. Her performances got good reviews but she never became as successful as her sister Mary. In 1922 Mary became a suspect when her lover William Desmond Taylor was murdered. Their mother Charlotte also became a suspect in his death. Although they were never charged with a crime the scandal destroyed the family’s reputation Margaret was a big animal lover who adopted dozens of stray dogs. She married Hugh Fillmore, a manufacturer, in 1925. They divorced two years later. Her final film was the 1928 drama Clothes Make The Woman.
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