Peggy Ryan
Birthday
1924/08/28
Day of death
2004/10/30 (80 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Long Beach, California, USA
Also know as
Margaret O'Rene Ryan, Margaret Sherman
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1944) Follow the Boys
as Peggy Ryan
(1945) Here Come the Co-eds
as Patty Gayle
(1945) That's the Spirit
as Sheila Gogarty
(1953) All Ashore
as Gay Night
(1942) Get Hep to Love
as Betty Blake
(1942) Miss Annie Rooney
as Myrtle
(1945) Patrick the Great
as Judy Watkin
(1944) Babes on Swing Street
as Trudy Costello
(1943) Mister Big
as Peggy
(1944) The Merry Monahans
as Patsy Monahan
(1943) Top Man
as Jane Warren
(1939) The Flying Irishman
as Edith Corrigan
(1942) Girls' Town
as Penny
(1944) Chip Off the Old Block
as Peggy Flaherty
(1980) Pleasure Palace
as Elderly Woman
(1940) The Grapes of Wrath
as Hungry Girl (uncredited)
(1944) This Is the Life
as Sally McGuire
(1937) The Women Men Marry
as Mary Jane
(1942) What's Cookin'?
as Peggy
(1938) Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
as Peggy Dixon
(1942) When Johnny Comes Marching Home
as Dusty
(1942) Private Buckaroo
as Peggy
(1944) Bowery to Broadway
as Specialty dancer
(1949) There's a Girl in My Heart
as Sally Mullin
(1930) The Wedding of Jack and Jill
as Jill
(1937) Top of the Town
as Peggy
(1945) Men in Her Diary
as Doris Mann
(1940) Sailor's Lady
as Ellen
(1949) Shamrock Hill
as Eileen Rogan
(1945) On Stage Everybody
as Molly Sullivan
(1939) She Married a Cop
as Trudy
(1981) Simon & Simon
as ---
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Jenny