Peggy Cass

Peggy Cass (actually Mary Margaret Cass, born May 21, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts, † March 8, 1999 in New York City, New York ) was an American actress.

Life

Peggy Cass was 1924 ( other claims to 1925 or 1926) as the middle child of the Boston sports promoter Raymond James Cass and his wife Margaret ( maiden name: Loughlin ) to the world. She attended three years, the Cambridge Latin School. There she was a member of a theater group, but there was no voice. At 18, she moved to New York where she worked as a model, a secretary and receptionist. For seven months she went in 1945 as a member of the USO of Doughgirls to Australia, where she made ​​her stage debut with the role of a Russian rear gunner. She trained among others, such well-known acting teachers like Uta Hagen, Mira Rostova and Tamara Daykarhanova.

Back in the USA Cass first appeared in 1948 at a New York theater stage, when she took over the role of Maisie in the play Burlesque at the Belasco Theatre. She was also obtained as an understudy of Jan Sterling in the U.S. tour of Born Yesterday. Her Broadway debut a year later in the musical touch and go at the Broadhurst Theatre. From the mid- 1950s, Cass became increasingly known as a stage and film actress. For the supporting role of the pregnant but unmarried Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame the Broadway Comedy with Rosalind Russell in 1957 she won the Tony Award and Theatre World Award. A year later, she took the part of the slightly limited secretary alongside Russell in the film version of The great aunt, which earned her a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination.

Cass ' performances in quiz shows ( among other things, To Tell the Truth, 1964-1967 ) increased their awareness tremendous as they had a large general knowledge. She was known as a lively and funny woman with a raspy voice that " could boil the fat of a taxi driver's neck ," according to their professional colleagues Orson Bean. In 1978 she was the subject of musician Gary Senick the song "I'm in Love with Peggy Cass ." In 1997 she stood for a TV production for the last time in front of the camera.

On 8 March 1999 Peggy Cass died at the Sloane -Kettering Hospital in Manhattan of heart failure. From 1979 until her death she was married to the retired teachers Eugene Feeney, with whom she traveled the world in later years. Her first marriage with Carl Fisher divorced.

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