Biography

Margarita Fischer was born on February 12, 1886 in Missouri Valley, Iowa, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Molly of the Follies (1919), A Midsummer's Love Tangle (1914) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1910). She was married to Harry A. Pollard. She died on March 11, 1975 in Encinitas, California, USA.

Brunette silent screen star, daughter of a minstrel. On stage aged eight with touring west coast stock companies. In films from 1910 with Selig, IMP and Universal. Best known for appearing in blackface as an African-American slave girl in the Harriet Beecher Stowe three reel epic "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1913).

She changed the spelling of her last name, from Fischer to Fisher, during World War I because of anti-German sentiments in the US.

In 1981, niece & former child actress Kathie Fischer donated silent film memorabilia from the careers of Harry A. Pollard and Fischer to the Wichita State University Libraries Special Collections.