Peggy Ryan
Known for: Acting
Born: August 28, 1924
Died: October 30, 2004
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
The Wedding of Jack and Jill
1930
Men in Her Diary
1945
Shamrock Hill
1949
That's the Spirit
1945
Babes on Swing Street
1944
The Merry Monahans
1944
Chip Off the Old Block
1944
On Stage Everybody
1945
All Ashore
1953
Mister Big
1943
This Is the Life
1944
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
1938
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945
Patrick the Great
1945
There's a Girl in My Heart
1949
Get Hep to Love
1942
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
Top Man
1943
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942
The Women Men Marry
1937
Top of the Town
1937
The Flying Irishman
1939
Girls' Town
1942
She Married a Cop
1939
Give Out, Sisters
1942
Oysters and Muscles
1948
Pleasure Palace
1980
Private Buckaroo
1942
Sailor's Lady
1940
What's Cookin'?
1942
Follow the Boys
1944
Bowery to Broadway
1944
Simon & Simon
1981
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Grapes of Wrath
1940