Peggy Ryan
Born in Long Beach, California, USA — Aug 28 1924• Died Oct 30 2004
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Biography
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…
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Peggy Ryan's Credits
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Hawaii Five-O
Jenny
Simon & Simon
The Grapes of Wrath
Hungry Girl (uncredited)
Sailor's Lady
Ellen
Follow the Boys
Peggy Ryan
The Flying Irishman
Edith Corrigan
Bowery to Broadway
Specialty dancer
All Ashore
Gay Night
Top Man
Jane Warren
Miss Annie Rooney
Myrtle
On Stage Everybody
Molly Sullivan
Top of the Town
Peggy
Mister Big
Peggy
Get Hep to Love
Betty Blake
Patrick the Great
Judy Watkin
Pleasure Palace
Elderly Woman
Private Buckaroo
Peggy
The Women Men Marry
Mary Jane
The Merry Monahans
Patsy Monahan
That's the Spirit
Sheila Gogarty
This Is the Life
Sally McGuire
She Married a Cop
Trudy
Here Come the Co-Eds
Patty Gayle
Men in Her Diary
Doris Mann
Chip Off the Old Block
Peggy Flaherty
Shamrock Hill
Eileen Rogan
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
Peggy Dixon
What's Cookin'?
Peggy
There's a Girl in My Heart
Sally Mullin
Babes on Swing Street
Trudy Costello
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Dusty
Girls' Town
Penny
The Wedding of Jack and Jill
Jill