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Peggy Ryan
Peggy Ryan
Peggy Ryan Born Margaret O’Rene Ryan August 28, 1924 Long Beach, California October 30, 2004 (aged 80) Las Vegas, Nevada James Cross, Ray McDonald, Eddie Sherman
She was survived by two children and five grandchildren.
Credits
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The Wedding of Jack and Jill - 1930 Top of the Town - 1937 Women Men Marry - 1937 Billy Rose’s Casa Mañana Revue - 1938 (short) The Flying Irishman - 1939 She Married a Cop - 1939 The Grapes of Wrath - 1940 Sailor’s Lady - 1940 What’s Cookin’? - 1942 Girls’ Town - 1942 Miss Annie Rooney - 1942 Private Buckaroo - 1942 Give Out, Sisters - 1942 Get Hep to Love - 1942 When Johnny Comes Marching Home 1943 Mister Big - 1943 Top Man - 1943 Chip Off the Old Block - 1944 Follow the Boys - 1944 (cameo) This Is the Life - 1944 The Merry Monahans - 1944 Babes on Swing Street - 1944 Bowery to Broadway - 1944 Here Come The Co-Eds - 1945 Patrick the Great - 1945 That’s the Spirit - 1945 On Stage Everybody - 1945 Men in Her Diary - 1945 Shamrock Hill - 1949 There’s a Girl in My Heart - 1950 All Ashore - 1953 Hawaii Five-O - 1968 (television series)
Died Spouse(s)
Margaret O’Rene "Peggy" Ryan (28 August 1924, Long Beach, California – 30 October 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American dancer who starred in a series of movie musicals at Universal Studios, tapping and clowning with Donald O’Connor. Her parents were vaudevilleians, "The Merry Dancing Ryans", and Peggy joined them onstage before she was two years old. Her singing, acting, and dancing skills were noticed by George Murphy, who helped her get a role in 1937’s Top of the Town. Her first pairing with O’Connor was 1942’s What’s Cookin’?, and they appeared in films together throughout World War II. She married James Cross in 1945; they were divorced in 1952. She left Universal and was paired with dancer Ray McDonald for 1949’s Shamrock Hill, 1950’s There’s a Girl in My Heart, and 1953’s All Ashore. They wed in 1953 and toured together in a nightclub act before being divorced in 1957. Her third wedding, in 1958, was to Hawaii columnist Eddie Sherman, following which she left movies for choreography and semiretirement. Sherman adopted her two children from her previous marriages. She was brought back to the small screen to play a recurring role as secretary Jenny Sherman, in Hawaii Five-O from 1969 to 1976. In later years she trained Las Vegas showgirls in tap dancing. Her last public performance, at her 80th birthday party, was a hilarious song-and-dance routine for her former Universal studio colleagues. She continued to teach tap until two days before her death at the age of 80 from the effects of two strokes.
External links
• Peggy Ryan at the Internet Movie Database
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peggy Ryan
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