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 i...
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Follow the Boys
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Here Come the Co-Eds
As Patty Gayle
That's the Spirit
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All Ashore
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Get Hep to Love
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Miss Annie Rooney
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Patrick the Great
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Babes on Swing Street
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Mister Big
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The Merry Monahans
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Top Man
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The Flying Irishman
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Girls' Town
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Chip Off the Old Block
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Pleasure Palace
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The Grapes of Wrath
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This Is the Life
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The Women Men Marry
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What's Cookin'?
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Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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Private Buckaroo
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Bowery to Broadway
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There's a Girl in My Heart
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The Wedding of Jack and Jill
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Top of the Town
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Men in Her Diary
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Sailor's Lady
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Shamrock Hill
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On Stage Everybody
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She Married a Cop
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Simon & Simon
Hawaii Five-O
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