Peggy Ann Garner

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Peggy Ann Garner (born February 3, 1932 in Canton , Ohio , † October 16, 1984 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film and stage actress who also worked as a photo model .

Life

Peggy Ann Garner was the only child of Virginia Garner, b. Swainston, a stage actress; and William H. Garner, a US Army officer from England . It was her mother, who dominated everything, who sent her to theater workshops and the catwalk before she was six. In the same year, mother and daughter moved to Hollywood , where they first appeared in a feature film in 1938. Her parents, who were always at odds with each other about raising their daughter, divorced in 1947. Peggy Ann herself, who was torn this way and that, sought personally in court to live with her father, but to no avail.

In the early 1940s Garner first appeared in major feature films. In 1943 she stood with Elizabeth Taylor in the film drama The Orphan of Lowood in front of the camera. She embodied the title character of Jane Eyre as a child. In 1944 she starred in the Cronin film Key to Heaven , in which Gregory Peck played the leading role. In 1946, at the age of 13, she received the Juvenile Award - an honorary Oscar - for her portrayal in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . Numerous late roles, however, fell short of the expected success.

In 1950, Garner made his Broadway debut and was soon a familiar face in New York City . She also played guest roles in many television series from the 1950s, but her film career finally came to a standstill during this time. From the end of the 1960s, Garner's acting roles began to decline, so that she built up a second pillar as a real estate agent and later as a car dealer. Her best-known film from the late stages of her career was the 1978 comedy A Wedding by Robert Altman .

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

Peggy Ann Garner, who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , died of pancreatic cancer at the age of only 52 . Her daughter Catherine Ann died of a heart condition in 1995 at the age of 38.

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SURNAME Garner, Peggy Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actress and photo model
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Canton , Ohio , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1984
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States