- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 28, 1924
- Place of Birth
- Long Beach, California, USA
- Died
- October 30, 2004
Peggy Ryan
A vastly talented musical performer, Peggy Ryan found stardom dancing alongside partner Donald O'Connor as Universal's answer to Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Paired up in many a low-budget WWII-era musical, she was best known for her dancing feet, but she was no slouch in the singing department and her buoyant personality added plenty of zest to the escapist fare she appeared in. Christened Margaret O'Rene Ryan, Peggy was, as they say, born in a trunk in 1924 to a pair of vaudeville dancers ("The Merry Dancing Ryans") and, by age two, the pint-sized scene-stealer was already selling her heart out on stage alongside her parents. No glamor girl, Peggy had a very plaintive face, prominent nose and gangly figure, similar to a Virginia Weidler, so she was wise enough to play it up for laughs. Discovered by George Murphy, the young girl earned a part in Universal's enjoyable tune fest Top …
Filmography
tvSimon & Simon
1981
moviePleasure Palace
1980 · Elderly Woman
tvHawaii Five-O
1968 · Jenny, Mildred
movieAll Ashore
1953 · Gay Night
movieThere's a Girl in My Heart
1949 · Sally Mullin
movieShamrock Hill
1949 · Eileen Rogan
Oysters and Muscles
movieOysters and Muscles
1948 · Ringside Girl
movieMen in Her Diary
1945 · Doris Mann
movieOn Stage Everybody
1945 · Molly Sullivan
movieThat's the Spirit
1945 · Sheila Gogarty
moviePatrick the Great
1945 · Judy Watkin
movieHere Come the Co-Eds
1945 · Patty Gayle
movieBowery to Broadway
1944 · Specialty dancer
movieBabes on Swing Street
1944 · Trudy Costello
movieThe Merry Monahans
1944 · Patsy Monahan
movieThis Is the Life
1944 · Sally McGuire
movieFollow the Boys
1944 · Peggy Ryan
movieChip Off the Old Block
1944 · Peggy Flaherty
movieTop Man
1943 · Jane Warren
movieMister Big
1943 · Peggy
movieWhen Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942 · Dusty
movieGet Hep to Love
1942 · Betty Blake
movieGive Out, Sisters
1942 · Peggy
moviePrivate Buckaroo
1942 · Peggy
movieMiss Annie Rooney
1942 · Myrtle
movieGirls' Town
1942 · Penny
movieWhat's Cookin'?
1942 · Peggy
movieSailor's Lady
1940 · Ellen
movieThe Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Hungry Girl (uncredited)
movieShe Married a Cop
1939 · Trudy
movieThe Flying Irishman
1939 · Edith Corrigan
movieBilly Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
1938 · Peggy Dixon
movieThe Women Men Marry
1937 · Mary Jane
movieTop of the Town
1937 · Peggy
movieThe Wedding of Jack and Jill
1930 · Jill