Personal Life
In 1918, Clark married New Orleans, Louisiana plantation owner and millionaire businessman Harry Palmerston Williams (1887–1936), a marriage which lasted until Harry's death in 1936. After the death of her husband in an air crash, Clark was the owner of the Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation, which had built and flown air racers, along with other aviation enterprises. She subsequently spent time in New York City, where she died from pneumonia in 1940 at the age of 57. She was buried with her husband in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Marguerite Clark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6304 Hollywood Boulevard.
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