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She had no formal training in theater, coming to the profession through the "amateur movement". While a teenager in the late 1920s, she joined the St. George
Players, an amateur club. In 1931, she became a member of the Tron Theatre Club in Glasgow, followed by Glasgow's
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in 1934. She then moved to repertory theatre in
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William MacIntosh (1900-1959), a police officer. In 1949, he became the first manager of the Citizens Theatre when it was located at
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In 1932, Urquhart joined the Howard and
Wyndham company, becoming a professional actress. Her first professional role was in the melodrama
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in 1932. She adopted the name Molly
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Helen Murdoch wrote a biography of Urquhart entitled
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