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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels is founding co-director with her husband Peter Steinfels of Fordham University 's Center on Religion and Culture, which is dedicated to fostering dialogue on challenges posed to contemporary culture by religious faith. The "On Faith" panelist, who is Fordham's journalist-in-residence, was editor of Commonweal , an independent biweekly journal of Catholic political, religious and literary opinion for 15 years. She ... co-directed "American Catholics in the Public Square," a three-year Commonweal Foundation project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Steinfels has written about a variety of subjects ranging from the politics of Serbia to the politics of the Saatchi Collection. She has published articles on childcare, family issues, bioethics, religion and politics, and foreign and domestic policy. She is the author of Who's Minding the Children?
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Thanks to the strenous efforts of her mother, a former dancer, American child actress "Margaret O'Brien" won her first film role at age four in the "Mickey Rooney"-"Judy Garland" musical "Babes on Broadway" (1941). MGM was so impressed by the child's expressiveness and emotional range that she was given the title role in the wartime morale-booster "Journey For Margaret" (1942). She was so camera-savvy by the time she appeared in "Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case" (1943) that the film's star "Lionel Barrymore" declared that had this been the Middle Ages, O'Brien would have been burned at the stake! Some of her coworkers may secretly have wished that fate on O'Brien, since she reportedly flaunted her celebrity on the set, ostensibly at the encouragement of her parents.
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As a child, Margaret O'Brien was more popular than most of her adult contemporaries -- at least as popular and well-merchandised as today's Olson twins. But unlike the twins from Full House, she didn't make the transition from child star to teen and adult star with quite the same level of success. Though she has continued to be seen on stage, screen, and TV, the high point of her career was in her pre-teen years.
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels is founding co-director with her husband Peter Steinfels of Fordham University 's Center on Religion and Culture, which is dedicated to fostering dialogue on challenges posed to contemporary culture by religious faith. more »
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Margaret O'Brien has recently completed a two-year MA at the Slade School of Art in London. A printmaker by training, over that relatively short period of time her work has changed from large-scale screenprints on aluminium to the work on show today.
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Margaret O'Brien didn't realize that "The Secret Garden," released in 1949, would turn out to be her last film for MGM. Nor did she realize that a bit player in that same film would ultimately provide the voice of Disney's "Alice In Wonderland," even though Walt Disney had already publicly announced that Margaret would be his "Alice."
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