Peggy Ryan
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (34)
Movies (31)
Pleasure Palace
1980as Elderly Woman
All Ashore
1953as Gay Night
There's a Girl in My Heart
1949as Sally Mullin
Shamrock Hill
1949as Eileen Rogan
On Stage Everybody
1945as Molly Sullivan
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945as Patty Gayle
Patrick the Great
1945as Judy Watkin
Men in Her Diary
1945as Doris Mann
That's the Spirit
1945as Sheila Gogarty
Babes on Swing Street
1944as Trudy Costello
Follow the Boys
1944as Peggy Ryan
Chip Off the Old Block
1944as Peggy Flaherty
Bowery to Broadway
1944as Specialty dancer
The Merry Monahans
1944as Patsy Monahan
This Is the Life
1944as Sally McGuire
Mister Big
1943as Peggy
Top Man
1943as Jane Warren
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942as Dusty
Get Hep to Love
1942as Betty Blake
Miss Annie Rooney
1942as Myrtle
Private Buckaroo
1942as Peggy
Girls' Town
1942as Penny
What's Cookin'?
1942as Peggy
The Grapes of Wrath
1940as Hungry Girl (uncredited)
Sailor's Lady
1940as Ellen
She Married a Cop
1939as Trudy
The Flying Irishman
1939as Edith Corrigan
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
1938as Peggy Dixon
Top of the Town
1937as Peggy
The Women Men Marry
1937as Mary Jane
The Wedding of Jack and Jill
1930as Jill
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