American stage, radio, and silent-film actress. A native of Philadelphia, she was brought to California as a child by her family. She gained some youthful stage experience before making her film debut in 1921. She made a number of silent films (including entries in Mort Peebles's and Harry Williams's "Snooky" series of shorts, and "The Hall-Room Boys" series), and at least one talkie. She abandoned films with the end of the silent era and worked on stage on Broadway and in national tours. She starred in the radio program "Nobody's Children" and then, as Margaret Chapin, she played on radio in "G.I. Wife" and "Little Moments With Big People." She hosted a radio cooking show in the 1940s under another name, Dorothy Derby. In her seventies, she returned to the stage briefly. She died in a Los Angeles nursing home in 1991, survived by writer Margaret Walker, her daughter with her first husband, cinematographer Joseph Walker.

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