What is Margaret Hamilton?
{{unsourced|date=January 2015}} {{for|the American [[NASA]] engineer|Margaret Hamilton (scientist)}} [[File:Margaret Hamilton 1966.jpg|thumb|Margaret Hamilton 1966.]] [[File:Margaret Hamilton in Nothing Sacred 2.jpg|thumb|Hamilton in ''[[Nothing Sacred]]'' 1937.]] '''Margaret Brainard Hamilton''' (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an [[Americans|American]] [[movie]] actress. She is best known for playing the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 movie ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. In movies, she often played older, unmarried women from [[New England]] who was extremely practical but did not enjoy jokes. Hamilton's plain looks helped to bring steady work as a character actress. Late in life she appeared in [[sitcom]]s and television commercials. She was born in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. She married Paul Boynton Meserve in 1931. They had a son. They [[divorce]]d. She never married again. She lived in [[New York City]] for most of her adult life. She later moved to [[Millbrook, New York]]. She died of a [[heart attack]] on May 16, 1985 in [[Connecticut]]. She was [[cremation|cremated]] at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery. Her ashes were scattered. {{US-actor-stub}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Margaret}} [[Category:Actors from Cleveland]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:American television actors]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1985 deaths]]