Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/10/1907
Place of Birth
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA
Also Known As
Winona Sammon
Peggy Shannon
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peggy Shannon (born Winona Sammon, January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress. She appeared on the stage and screen of the 1920s and 1930s.
Shannon began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 before moving on to Broadway productions. She was signed to Paramount Pictures and groomed to replace Clara Bow as the newest "It girl", whom she replaced in the 1931 film, The Secret Call. Her growing dependency on alcohol eventually derailed her career. She appeared in her final film, Triple Justice, in 1940. In May 1941, Shannon died at the age of 3...
Known For
The Women
as Mrs. Jones (uncredited)
Girl Missing
as Daisy Bradford
Deluge
as Claire Arlington
Triple Justice
as Susan
Cafe Hostess
as Nellie
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Kitty (uncredited)
Hotel Continental
as Ruth Carleton
The House Across the Bay
as Alice
Girls on Probation
as Inmate Ruth
Blackwell's Island
as Pearl Murray
Silence
as Norma Davis / Norma Powers
Youth on Parole
as Peggy
The Secret Call
as Wanda Kelly
Turn Back the Clock
as Elvina Evans Wright / Elvina Evans Gimlet
The Adventures of Jane Arden
as Lola Martin
False Faces
as Elsie Fryer
The Case of the Lucky Legs
as Thelma Bell
Back Page
as Jerry Hampton
Touchdown!
as Mary Gehring
Fixer Dugan
as Aggie Moreno