Marguerite Namara

American lyric soprano

Marguerite Namara (born Marguerite Evelyn Cecilia Banks;November 19, 1888 – November 5, 1974) was a classically trained American lyric soprano whose varied career included serious opera, Broadway musicals, film and theater roles, and vocal recitals, and who counted among her lifelong circle of friends and acquaintances many of the leading artistic figures of the first half of the twentieth century.