Margaret Landis

Margaret Cullen Landis Bracken Couper (August 31, 1890 – April 8, 1981) was an American silent screen actress who appeared in at least 41 films between 1915 and 1931.

Early life and education

Margaret Cullen Landis was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the daughter of Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis. Her father was a stockbroker and her younger brother, Cullen Landis was a successful silent film director and actor. She attended Ward-Belmont Seminary in Tennessee. She took some time off to study art, eventually returning to film work around 1921. She was considered versatile, and was cast in melodramas, comedies, and Westerns.

Landis also acted on the stage ; on Broadway she appeared in One of the Family in 1926. She had a role in Lombardi, Ltd., when it was produced in California in 1928, and in Australia in 1929. thumb

Personal life Landis married film director Bertram Bracken on April 5, 1919, and they divorced in 1924. She married James Hamilton Couper, a World War I veteran who came from a prominent Georgia Coast family, in 1930. Landis had a stroke in 1969, Her grave is with her second husband's, at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Selected filmography Broken Fetters (1916) Mismates (1916) The Best Man (1917) The Martinache Marriage (1917) Code of the Yukon (1918) Feet of Clay (1918) Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918) Mr. Fix-It (1918) The Confession (1920) Parted Curtains (1920) Harriet and the Piper (1920) Sowing the Wind (1921) Ashes (1922) The Ladder Jinx (1922) Chasing the Jinx (1922) Alice Adams (1923) What Wives Want (1923) The Love Brand (1923) Trigger Fingers (1924) My Man (1924) An Enemy Of Men (1925) Youth and Adventure (1925) The Latest from Paris (1928) Sheer Luck (1931)