Peggy Ryan
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Simon & Simon
1981
Pleasure Palace
1980
as Elderly Woman
Hawaii Five-O
1969
as Jenny
Hawaii Five-O
1969
as Mildred
All Ashore
1953
as Gay Night
There's a Girl in My Heart
1949
as Sally Mullin
Shamrock Hill
1949
as Eileen Rogan
Oysters and Muscles
1948
as Ringside Girl
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945
as Patty Gayle
That's the Spirit
1945
as Sheila Gogarty
Patrick the Great
1945
as Judy Watkin
Men in Her Diary
1945
as Doris Mann
On Stage Everybody
1945
as Molly Sullivan
Follow the Boys
1944
as Peggy Ryan
Babes on Swing Street
1944
as Trudy Costello
The Merry Monahans
1944
as Patsy Monahan
Chip Off the Old Block
1944
as Peggy Flaherty
This Is the Life
1944
as Sally McGuire
Bowery to Broadway
1944
as Specialty dancer
Mister Big
1943
as Peggy
Top Man
1943
as Jane Warren
Get Hep to Love
1942
as Betty Blake
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
as Myrtle
Girls' Town
1942
as Penny
What's Cookin'?
1942
as Peggy
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942
as Dusty
Private Buckaroo
1942
as Peggy
Give Out, Sisters
1942
as Peggy
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
as Hungry Girl (uncredited)
Sailor's Lady
1940
as Ellen
The Flying Irishman
1939
as Edith Corrigan
She Married a Cop
1939
as Trudy
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
1938
as Peggy Dixon
The Women Men Marry
1937
as Mary Jane
Top of the Town
1937
as Peggy
The Wedding of Jack and Jill
1930
as Jill