Peggy Connelly

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Peggy Connelly (September 25, 1931 - June 11, 2007), singer and actress, former wife of Dick Martin (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), with whom she had a son, Cary Martin.

Peggy Connelly was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and reared in Fort Worth, Texas. She had a long career as a singer and actress, starting with local dance bands (the first Harvey Anderson's) in the Fort Worth-Dallas area. In 1956 she recorded an album of standards, Peggy Connelly with Russ Garcia--That Old Black Magic, for Bethlehem Records, now available on CD. Among other films, she appeared as a Flora Dora girl in The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing (1955) and as Elizabeth Wilson, a visitor to the houseboat, in Houseboat (1958). She was on the TV show Take A Good Look with Ernie Kovacs.

Connelly moved to Europe in the early 1970s and worked as a single act until the mid-1990s, when she, Sarah Tullamore and Wendy Taylor formed a trio called The Jazzberries. The Jazzberries played extensively in Paris and throughout Europe until they disbanded in 2000.