Margaret "Talli" Tallichet was born March 13, 1914. Dallas, Texas, USA. She was the older sister of pilot David Tallichet (1922-2007) who was a pilot in Hanover Street (Peter Hyams, 1979) and Memphis Belle (Michael Caton-Jones, 1990), which was produced by her daughter, Catherine Wyler. After the release of her third film, she married director William Wyler and acted in four more films, including her best known roles, Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940) and It Started With Eve (Henry Koster, 1941), retiring after the birth of her second child. She worked with directors William Wellman, John Brahm, W.S. Van Dyke II, and John H. Auer, but never in a film directed by her husband. She auditioned for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) and filmed screen tests in March 1938. It was announced on October 28, 1937, that she would be playing Carreen O'Hara, but that went to Anne Rutherford. She died of cancer May 3, 1991 in Los Angeles.
