Margaret Nearing

Billed as the Nearing Sisters, Margaret Nearing and her sister, Rose, performed with a tight wire act in traveling tent shows and later had their own radio show in San Francisco. Known as "the little lady with the big voice," the blond Margaret entered films in 1933 as a specialty act and was one of the pretty girls cavorting on an airplane wing in Flying Down to Rio (1933). She took part in the "March of the Wooden Soldiers" number in Babes in Toyland (1934) and later did a specialty song in Stolen Harmony (1935). Her only straight acting part came as Tom Tyler's leading lady in the 1936 B-movie Fast Bullets, after which she married and retired to Hawaii. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi