Throwback Thursday and Peggy Ryan
She was born Maragret O’Rene Ryan in
Long Beach, California on August 28, 1924. She began her professional career in
vaudeville in her parent’s act the Dancing Ryans. She was three years old. At
age six she was featured in The Wedding
of Jack and Jill playing the role of Jill; and the first Link of the Day below shows her tap
dancing at age 12 in the movie Top of the
Town (1937).
Over the next twenty years she appeared
in more than two dozen movies, including The
Grapes of Wrath (uncredited). She was frequently paired with Donald O’Conner
in films such as When Johnny Comes
Marching Home (1942), Mister Big (1943),
and Bowery to Broadway (1944) among
others. In 1953 she appeared in her last movie, All Ashore with Mickey Rooney.
She turned her attention to television,
appearing in the premieres of Ed Sullivan’s Toast
of the Town and Milton Berle’s Texaco
Star Theater, both in 1948. By 1969 she acted in her longest TV role:
playing Jenny Sherman, secretary to Jack Lord’s character Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O. She stayed until 1976.
During the last years of her life, she
taught tap and produced performances in Las Vegas which she did up until just a
few days before her death on October 30, 2004.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #292:
“Peggy Ryan was a dancer in movie musicals, who was often
paired with Donald O’Conner.”
Link of the Day:
Quote of the Day:
“A person
who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're
twenty-one.”
― Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
― Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
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