- Mother of actor Edward Albert and Maria Albert Zucht.
- She was a victim of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist, after her name was listed in the anti-communist pamphlet, Red Channels, even though she was not a Communist.
- Ex-niece-in-law of Xavier Cugat.
- She died of a brain tumor, at the home she shared with husband Eddie Albert, in her own bed.
- Due to her birth name being exceptionally, extremely long (at least by American convention), she needed to choose a much shorter, and memorable name for a professional name to be seen on movie screens and theater marquees. By choice, she went from six given names and two family names, or eight names in total, down to just a one name stage name. Her chosen professional stage name of Margo, is an acronym (of sorts) of part of her birth name, María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell. Her first two names each beginning with "Mar", her second middle name beginning with "G", and her last last name (by Spanish naming convention her mother's family name, O'Donnell, comes after her father's family name of Castilla) beginning with "O," therefore forming Mar.g.o., in the same order as her birth names appear, or Margo.
- As a child, she trained as a dancer with Eduardo Cansino, the father of Rita Hayworth.
- She began dancing professionally, when she was just nine years old, with her uncle, Xavier Cugat and his band, in performances at Mexican nightclubs.
- Mother-in-law of actress Katherine Woodville.
- Grandmother of Thais Albert.
- Niece of Carmen Castillo.
- Mentioned in She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya as one of Ouspenskaya's acting students.
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