Peggy Ryan

Peggy Ryan

Person

Peggy Ryan

Actor 1924-08-28 Long Beach, California, USA

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 ...

Known for

FILMOGRAPHY

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · Hungry Girl (uncredited)

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O

1969 · Jenny

Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon

1981 · TV

Here Come the Co-Eds

Here Come the Co-Eds

1945 · Patty Gayle

Private Buckaroo

Private Buckaroo

1942 · Peggy

Follow the Boys

Follow the Boys

1944 · Peggy Ryan

Miss Annie Rooney

Miss Annie Rooney

1942 · Myrtle

The Flying Irishman

The Flying Irishman

1939 · Edith Corrigan

The Merry Monahans

The Merry Monahans

1944 · Patsy Monahan

Top of the Town

Top of the Town

1937 · Peggy

Pleasure Palace

Pleasure Palace

1980 · Elderly Woman

She Married a Cop

She Married a Cop

1939 · Trudy

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue

Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue

1938 · Peggy Dixon

That's the Spirit

That's the Spirit

1945 · Sheila Gogarty

All Ashore

All Ashore

1953 · Gay Night

This Is the Life

This Is the Life

1944 · Sally McGuire

What's Cookin'?

What's Cookin'?

1942 · Peggy

Mister Big

Mister Big

1943 · Peggy

Give Out, Sisters

Give Out, Sisters

1942 · Peggy