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Date of Birth

3 February 1932, Canton, Ohio, USA

Date of Death

16 October 1984, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (pancreatic cancer)

Birth Name

Peggy Ann Garner

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Mini 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.

IMDb Mini Biography By: ronjo07@aol.com

Spouse

Kenyon Foster Brown	(7 August 1964 - 1968) (divorced)
Albert Salmi	(16 May 1956 - 13 March 1963) (divorced) 1 child
Richard Hayes	(22 February 1951 - 13 October 1953) (divorced)

Trivia

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.

Took her special Oscar to bed with her the night she received it.

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).

No one knows the location of the Oscar that she received on March 7, 1946. This award was presented to her by Bob Hope.

Known to have dated Jackie Cooper and Eddie Fisher.

Appeared in the 1940 movie Abe Lincoln In Illinois although she had no speaking part.

Appeared on the show called The Dating Game in 1970.

Ed Sullivan gave her away when she married Richard Hayes on February 22, 1951. Her parents were absent from the event.

Salary

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

$1,250 weekly

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