Peggy Garner

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Peggy Garner Biography

Peggy Ann Garner`s career was launched by a determined mother, who got her into summer stock and modeling before she was 6. Virginia Garner moved her daughter to Hollywood a year later. She had placed her in several films before the young actress gained fame as Francie Nolan in the 1945 film, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Her career began to fade as she grew older, but she did stage and television work as well as a few other films, never recapturing her childhood fame. Even while earning her living as a real estate broker in the 1960s and as a fleet automobile sales manager during the 1970s, she dreamed of a return to the screen. She was married and divorced three times. Her second husband was actor Albert Salmi, by whom she had a daughter, Catherine. The actress was born Feb. 3, 1932, in Canton, Ohio. Her father was an English-born attorney, William H. Garner, who was a U.S. Army officer during World War II and later became estranged from her mother. Her parents were divorced in 1947 and the young actress, who had a falling out with her mother, went to court to ask that her father be appointed guardian in her mother`s place.

Before she was 20, she left Hollywood for New York to try her talents on Broadway. She spent the 1950s living and working in New York and studying with the Actors Studio. She appeared in "The Man" with Dorothy Gish in 1950, "A Royal Family" in 1951 and "Home is the Hero" in 1954. She also was in the road company of "Bus Stop" in 1955. She received the "Hasty Puddings Theatrical award for "Woman of the Year" in 1956.

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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
I HAVE HEARD THAT AN AUDIO VERSION OF THE PEGGY ANN`S BIOGRAPHY PLAIN BEAUTIFUL WILL BE AVAILABLE LATER THIS YEAR. LET`S HOPE THAT NEW INFORMATION DEALING WITH HER LONG LOST TV SERIES TWO GIRLS NAMED SMITH WILL SURFACE.MY PAGGY ANN GARNER-THE GREATEST ACTRESS WHO EVER LIVED!!!!!!!!!
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
MY LITTLE ANGEL APPEARED IN MANY MOVIES. I ONLY HOPE THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WILL SEE THESE LONG FORGOTTON MOVIES AND OBSERVE HER GREATNESS. MY LITTLE ANGEL IS GONE BUT SHE WILL LIVE IN MY HEART FOREVER!!!!!!!
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
PEGGY ANN GARNER WAS IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GREATEST ACTRESS WHO EVER LIVED.HER PERFORMANCE IN A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN WILL LIVE FOREVER. I LOVE YOU MY ANGEL
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
PEGGY ANN GARNER IS BEING REBORN! TO THE YOUTH OF AMERICA WHO HAS NEVER HEARD OF HER, THEY ARE QUICKLY DISCOVERING HER GREATNESS AS AN ACTRESS. ONE THING FOR SURE-SHE WILL ALWAYS BE MY ANGEL! GOD BLESS MY PEGGY ANN!!
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
LITTLE PEGGY ANN HAD A VERY HARD LIFE BUT SHE MADE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAPPY BY HER PERFORMANCES IN THE MOVIES AND ON TELEVISION.LET`S ALL HOPE THAT ALL OF PEGGY ANN`S MOVIES WILL BE RELEASED ON DVD. DOES ANYONE KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF HER LONG FORGOTTON TV SERIES-TWO GIRLS NAMED SMITH? I AM SURE THAT MY LITTLE ANGEL IS IN THE PARADISE OF HEAVEN. THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE OF ANY HUMAN BEING ON THIS EARTH WAS MADE BY MY ANGEL IN A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. GOD BLESS MY PEGGY ANN!!
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
PEGGY ANN GARNER LIVES! SHE IS NOW IN HEAVEN BUT SHE WILL ALWAYS LIVE WITH US THROUGH HER MOVIES. SHE WAS AN ANGEL IN A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN AND SHE WILL WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART AS MY ANGEL. WHEN PEGGY ANN WAS CREATED SO WAS THE PERFECT ANGEL. GOD BLESS YOU-MY PEGGY ANN!!!!!!!
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posted by Alphonse Dattolo
PEGGY ANN GARNER - THE GREATEST ACTRESS WHO EVER LIVED. SHE IS NOW AN ANGEL IN HEAVEN AND SHE WAS AN ANGEL ON EARTH AND IN THE IMMORTAL MOVIE A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN!
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
IT IS PLEASING TO KNOW THAT THE GREATEST CHILD ACTRESS -PEGGY ANN GARNER IS REMEMBERED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. SHE DID A LONG FORGOTTON TV SERIES -TWO GIRLS NAMED SMITH WAY BACK IN 1951 BUT SHE QUIT THE SHOW IN ORDER TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER HUSBAND. THAT IS THE KIND OF ANGEL PEGGY ANN WAS!PEGGY IS GONE BUT SHE WILL ALWAYS REMAIN IN THE HEARTS OF ALL WHO LOVE HER AND ADMIRE THE ANGELIC PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER THAT PEGGY ANN GARNER WAS!!!!!!!
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posted by ALPHONSE DATTOLO
PEGGY ANN GARNER WAS AN INCREDIBLE PERSON!!! SHE MADE HER FAME IN 1945 WHEN SHE APPEARED IN A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. SHE LATER WENT ON TO OTHER VENTURES AND SHE APPEARED IN THE LONG FORGOTTON SERIES THE NAKED CITY (A BUTTON IN THE HAYSTACK FEBRUARY 22,1961) I HAVE A COPY OF THIS LONG FORGOTTEN SHOW AND SHE WAS JUST AS BEAUTIFUL AS EVER! PEGGY IS GONE BUT HER MEMORY WILL LIVE FOREVER. SHE WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE MY ANGEL! GOD BLESS HER!!!
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    Name Peggy Garner
    Height 5' 4"  (163 cm)
    Build Slim
    Hair Color Blonde
    Date of Birth February 31932
    Birthplace Canton, Ohio
    Star Sign Aquarius
    Died October 161984 (Aged 52)
    Location of Death Los Angeles, California
    Cause of Death Pancreatic Cancer
    Nationality American
    Ethnicity White
    Occupation Actress
    Celebrity Index Pe
    Claim to Fame A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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  • In June 1944 the New York Times reported that Garner would star in an adaptation of the Nelia Gardner White short story "The Little Horse" for 20th Century-Fox with André Daven producing. When the movie finally went before the cameras Connie Marshall was cast in the role of Kitty, and the movie was retitled Sentimental Journey (1946).
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  • Took her special Oscar to bed with her the night she received it.
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  • Daughter Catherine Ann Salmi died in 1995 of premature heart disease at age 38. Peggy`s strong-willed mother, Virginia Garner Swainston, had outlived both her only child and her only grandchild.
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