Personal Info
Margaret O'Rene Ryan
Margaret Sherman
Peggy Ryan
Acting
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
Filmography
Movies
Pleasure Palace
as Elderly Woman
All Ashore
as Gay Night
Shamrock Hill
as Eileen Rogan
There's a Girl in My Heart
as Sally Mullin
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Patty Gayle
Men in Her Diary
as Doris Mann
Patrick the Great
as Judy Watkin
On Stage Everybody
as Molly Sullivan
That's the Spirit
as Sheila Gogarty
Follow the Boys
as Peggy Ryan
