Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/28/1924
Place of Birth
Long Beach, California, USA
Also Known As
Margaret O'Rene RyanMargaret Sherman
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 ("The Merry Dancing Ryans") and, by age two, the pint-sized scene-stealer was already selling her he...
Known For
Private Buckaroo
as Peggy
Shamrock Hill
as Eileen Rogan
Mister Big
as Peggy
The Grapes of Wrath
as Hungry Girl (uncredited)
All Ashore
as Gay Night
Girls' Town
as Penny
Get Hep to Love
as Betty Blake
Pleasure Palace
as Elderly Woman
The Women Men Marry
as Mary Jane
On Stage Everybody
as Molly Sullivan
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
as Dusty
Chip Off the Old Block
as Peggy Flaherty
Follow the Boys
as Peggy Ryan
That's the Spirit
as Sheila Gogarty
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Patty Gayle
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue
as Peggy Dixon
Patrick the Great
as Judy Watkin
Sailor's Lady
as Ellen
Miss Annie Rooney
as Myrtle
She Married a Cop
as Trudy