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Peggy Ryan

Peggy Ryan

Acting
28 Aug 1924
30 Oct 2004
Long Beach, California, USA

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 ...

Also Known As

Margaret O'Rene Ryan, Margaret Sherman

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