Margaret was a successful child actress who began working professionally at a very early age. Her first Broadway appearance was in Grace Livingston Furniss's play The Fibber. In 1916 Shelby and sister Mary Miles Minter, by then in their teens, acted together on film in Director James Kirkwood's picture Faith. Although pretty [1] and noted as having some talent as an actress her film career was mostly limited to supporting roles in some of her sister's films. By 1916 both sisters were quite famous. That year, Margaret and Mary established a widely publicized "hotel" for stray dogs on the ample grounds of their Santa Barbara, California home.
Her sister left the film industry in 1924 and Margaret subsequently took small bit parts in sundry productions.[2] She was briefly married to Hugh Fillmore, grandson of US President Millard Fillmore but they divorced in 1927. With the coming of talkies in the late 1920s her career ended. By the late 1930s Margaret was suffering from both alcoholism...
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