Peggy Ann Garner

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Peggy Ann Garner

Peggy Ann Garner pictured in 1947

Born

February 3, 1932
Canton, Ohio, U.S.

Died

October 16, 1984 (aged 52)
Woodland Hills, California, U.S.

Awards won
Academy Awards
1945 Academy Juvenile Award

Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 – October 16, 1984) was an Academy Award-winning American cinema and theater actress.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 Further reading
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Born in Canton, Ohio, Garner's mother pushed her into the limelight, and entered her in talent quests while Garner was still a child. By 1938 she had made her first film appearance and over the next few years appeared in several more films including Jane Eyre (1944) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). She reached the height of her success at the age of 13 in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) winning an Academy Juvenile Award largely on the basis of this performance.

Like many child performers, Garner was unable to make a successful transition into adult film roles. She guest starred steadily in televisions roles beginning in the early 1950s and continuing through the 1960s. After her film career ended, she ventured into stage acting and had some success, but also worked as a real estate agent between acting jobs in order to support herself. Her final screen performance was a small part in a made for television feature in 1980.

Garner married actor Albert Salmi on May 16, 1956, and they divorced March 13, 1963. Their only daughter, Catherine Ann Salmi, died in 1995 at age 38 from heart disease.

Garner died from pancreatic cancer.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1938	Little Miss Thoroughbred	Praying orphan	uncredited
1939	Blondie Brings Up Baby	Melinda Mason
1939	In Name Only	Ellen Eden
1940	Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)	little girl (uncredited)	Spirit of the People UK title
1942	The Pied Piper	Sheila Cavanaugh
1942	Eagle Squadron	Child
1944	The Keys of the Kingdom	Nora, as a girl
1944	Jane Eyre	Jane Eyre (younger)
1945	Nob Hill	Katie Flanagan
	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Francie Nolan
	Junior Miss	Judy Graves
1946	Home, Sweet Homicide	Dinah Carstairs
1947	Daisy Kenyon	Rosamund O'Mara
1947	Thunder in the Valley	Maggie Moore
1948	The Sign of the Ram	Christine St. Aubyn
1949	The Lovable Cheat	Julie Mercadet
	The Big Cat	Doris Cooper
	Bomba, the Jungle Boy	Pat Harland
1951	Teresa	Susan Cass
1954	Black Widow	Nancy 'Nanny' Ordway
1966	The Cat	Susan Kilby
1978	A Wedding	Candice Ruteledge