PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Hollywood legend stopped by Portland to donate her Oscar to a local movie museum.
Margaret O’Brien was just 6 years old when she starred alongside Judy Garland in “Meet Me In St. Louis.” She appeared as Garland’s younger sister, Tootie.
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O’Brien won an Oscar in 1944 for her performance. It was a rare small Juvenile Oscar, an award also won by Garland just five years before for “The Wizard of Oz.”
But 10 years later, it went missing. Then in 1995, it was discovered at a flea market in Los Angeles and returned to her.
O’Brien was at Movie Madness in Southeast Portland on Saturday where her Oscar was placed in a display case already filled with her movie memorabilia…