Peggy Ann Garner

Peggy Ann Garner ( born February 3, 1932 in Canton, Ohio, † October 16, 1984 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film and theater actress and fashion model.

Life

Peggy Ann Garner was the only child of Virginia Garner, born Swainston, a theater actress and William H. Garner, one coming from England officer in the U.S. Army. Your all-pervasive mother was the one who sent her to theater workshops and on the catwalk before the age of six. That same year, mother and daughter moved to Hollywood, where it was first seen in 1938 in a feature film. Her parents, who always were in dispute with each other about the education of the daughter left, divorced in 1947. Peggy Ann itself, which was torn sought personally in court to live with her father, but without success.

In the early 1940s Garner appeared the first time in major motion pictures. In 1943, she was standing with Elizabeth Taylor in the movie The Orphan of Lowood front of the camera in which she played the young title character. In 1944, she starred in the film adaptation Cronin key to the kingdom of heaven, in which Gregory Peck played the lead role. In 1946 she was awarded the Juvenile Award at the age of 13 years for her performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - an honorary Oscar - excellent. Numerous late roles but lagged the expected success, so her film career came in the early 1950s to a halt and they henceforth mainly in television series roles took over.

1950 Garner debuted on Broadway and was soon a known face in New York City. End of the 1960s, Garner retired from acting, and occurred only sporadically before the film camera. Her most famous film in that era was the 1978 comedy film produced by Robert Altman A wedding.

Peggy Ann Garner was married three times. On February 22, 1951, she married actor Richard Hayes, from which they, however, after two and a half years, on 13 October 1953 divorced. On 16 May 1956 she married actor Albert Salmi, with whom she had her only child, daughter Catherine Ann Salmi. The marriage lasted until 13 March 1963. Her third husband, Kenyon Foster Brown, whom she married on August 7, 1964 belonged to the middle class. He, too, Garner left after four years of marriage, 1968, divorced.

Peggy Ann Garner, who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, died at the age of only 52 years, from pancreatic cancer. Albert Salmi, husband number two, died only six years later, in 1990; her daughter, Catherine Ann, died in 1995.

Filmography (selection)

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