Peggy Feury

Peggy Feury
Peggy Feury, acting a part
Born Margaret Feury
June 30, 1924
Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.
Died November 20, 1985 (aged 61)
West Hollywood, California, U.S.
Other names Peg Feury, Margaret Traylor
Occupation Actress, teacher
Years active 1948—1985
Spouse(s)
Children Stephanie Feury, Susan Traylor

Peggy Feury (30 June 1924 — 20 November 1985) (born Margaret Feury) was an actress on Broadway, in films, and on television. She became a highly regarded acting teacher in New York and then in Los Angeles. Her students included Sean Penn,[1][2] Meg Ryan,[3] Johnny Depp,[4] Ellen Burstyn,[5] Jeff Goldblum,[6] Vonetta McGee,[7] Lou Gossett, Jr.,[8] James Cromwell,[9] Crispin Glover,[10] Eric Stoltz,[11][12] Laura Dern,[13] Lily Tomlin,[14] Charlie Sheen,[10] Annette O'Toole,[15] Anjelica Huston,[16][17] Meg Tilly,[18] Nicolas Cage,[19] Michelle Pfeiffer,[2] and Oscar-winning screenwriters Bobby Moresco [20] and Callie Khouri.[21]

Education

Feury was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her father was Richard Feury; her mother, born in Ireland, was also Margaret Feury; and her younger sister was Elinor Feury.[22] She graduated from Barnard College, then attended the Yale School of Drama, later studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.[23][24] While at Yale, Feury met and then married her first husband, playwright Louis S. Peterson.[25] [lower-alpha 1]

Actress

As Margaret Feury she appeared on Broadway in Me and Molly;[29][30] Sunday Breakfast (staged by noted acting teacher Stella Adler);[31][32] Enter Laughing; Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield, Mildred Dunnock, and Karl Malden, directed by Lee Strasberg;[33] The Grass Harp, directed by Actors Studio co-founder Robert Lewis; The Lady of the Camellias, directed by Franco Zeffirelli,[34] Chekov's Three Sisters, directed by Strasberg (with Feury eventually replacing Geraldine Page as Olga),[35] and The Turn of the Screw.[36][37][38] Off-Broadway she starred in Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit at the Provincetown Playhouse.[39]

Between 1956 and 1969, the Actors Studio undertook a project to record and archive work that was being done there, including performances of scenes from dramatic literature. These recordings have been archived as part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.[40] Feury participated in this project from its inception until her relocation to Los Angeles in December 1968.[41]

Feury appeared in a number of television dramas beginning in the Golden Age of Television,[42] including, in 1961, a significant role she played in “Murder is a Face I Know”, an episode from The Naked City, which can be found on the internet.[43][44]

In November 1961, an early draft of the first scene of Edward Albee’s play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, was presented on the public television program Playwright at Work. The characters George and Martha — which would later be originated on stage by Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen, and on screen by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor — were portrayed by Shepperd Strudwick and Feury.[45][46]

On October 2, 1977, Feury appeared in "Iowa," the second season premiere of Visions, PBS's Peabody-Award-winning dramatic anthology series; it was also playwright Murray Mednick's television debut.[47] Though critical reaction to the show was lukewarm at best,[48][49] the actors fared markedly better, Feury in particular. As the unwilling nursing home resident whose disjointed recollections provide her granddaughter an invaluable connection to her Iowa roots, Feury's portrayal was judged "[b]y far the best acting performance of all" by The Hartford Courant,[50] while her able embodiment of dementia-fueled digression — "from family feeling to suspicion to self-absorbed recollection" — was duly noted by The Boston Globe,[51] with The Los Angeles Times citing her "almost effortless grace" and "marvelous ferocity."[52] Even James Wolcott's otherwise resounding thumbs down found one moment to cherish:

One scene teems with unruly life: Eileen visits her grandmother (Peggy Feury) in the nursing home, and the grandma's semi-senile outbursts have a crazy, cawing theatricality. "This is a cattle yard," says Feury's crone as the camera stares down the discarded people. "Bellowing, constant bellowing." Another patient — babbling "Operator, operator, operator" — is wheeled across the screen and grandma, like an Alice-in-Wonderland queen, issues a command: "Choke her!" This disreputably funny scene is capped when a nurse happens by and — perfect joke — turns out to be a Lily Tomlin lookalike.[48] [lower-alpha 2]

Feury's film credits include Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion (1984); Carl Reiner's All of Me (1984), starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin; Elia Kazan's film of The Last Tycoon (1976), starring Robert De Niro;[23] Matt Cimber's The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976),[24] and Feury's final screen performance, in 1918, written by Horton Foote.[54][55][56] A brief appearance in Donald Shebib's Heartaches (1981) was singled out by New York Times critic Vincent Canby: "That very fine actress Peggy Feury appears in a tiny but important scene as the doctor who advises Bonnie about a possible abortion."[57]

By far Feury's most substantial film role (in terms of both sheer size and importance to a film's narrative) came in a little seen low-budget psychological horror film — John Ballard's Friday the 13th: The Orphan (1979), based on the short story Sredni Vashtar by Saki[58] — that's long since been eclipsed by its hugely successful namesake. In Nightmare USA (his 2007 study of lesser-known American exploitation filmmakers), Stephen Thrower writes:

Then there's Peggy Feury, a skilled and thoughtful actress who demonstrates here how she came to be one of the leading lights in her profession. (She taught acting at the Actors Studio, alongside Lee Strasberg.) The role of Aunt Martha is already well-written, but Feury brings her own amazingly subtle shadings to the part.[59]

Teacher

Feury was a charter member of the Actors Studio[23] and frequently led sessions there when Lee Strasberg was unavailable.[60][61] She also taught her own classes in the same building where Strasberg taught, behind Carnegie Hall.[5]

In December 1968, at Strasberg's suggestion, Feury moved to Los Angeles with her husband William Traylor and their two daughters.[62] After a brief stint teaching at Jack Garfein's Actors and Directors Lab,[63] Feury helped establish the west coast branch of the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she would double as instructor and artistic director [64] until 1973, when she and Traylor started their own acting school, the Loft Studio, on LaBrea Avenue.[24][65]

Sean Penn was 18 when he arrived at the Loft;[66] he remained for two years, attending class twenty-five hours a week.[65] Feury's "very gentle," "very personal" approach quickly won over the fiercely independent young actor, as did her emphasis on discovering "how [to] bring yourself to the material rather than the material to you."[66] To Anjelica Huston, who began her studies in 1981 at age 30,[67][68] Feury was "a revelation," with "a vast knowledge of playwrights" and "an extraordinary gift for making one feel understood."[69] Huston describes her teacher as "beautiful," " quite small and delicate," with a "half way to heaven look." On the other hand, notes Huston, Feury was "extremely intelligent and mordant, Irish, with certain very visceral preferences", and yet had "a way of commenting on a scene that was never destructive. [Even when] you knew she thought it was pretty terrible, she had a way of translating it positively to actors — her process was very reinforcing, I think." [67]

Feury was occasionally called upon to coach an individual actor in a role, as she did Michelle Pfeiffer in Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983) [70] and Lily Tomlin in her one-woman stage show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.[14] The evolution of Tomlin's show formed the basis of a 1986 documentary in which Feury appeared posthumously;[71] Tomlin dedicated the film to her memory.[14]

Others who have studied with Feury include actors Richard Dean Anderson,[72] Albie Selznick,[73] Sam Behrens,[74] Bruno Kirby,[75] Joanna Kerns,[76] Dean Cameron,[77] Christopher Penn,[78] Kate Vernon,[79] Irene Tsu,[80] Daphne Zuniga,[81] Melissa Gilbert,[82] Ed Begley, Jr.,[83] Arthur French,[84] Sachi Parker,[10] Taylor Miller,[85] Michelle Phillips,[86] Michelle Meyrink,[82] Robert R. Shafer,[87] Grainger Hines,[88] Rosalie Williams,[89] Marilyn Hassett,[90] Hallie Foote,[91] and Hart Bochner,[82] as well as director Antero Alli, [92] playwright Milcha Sanchez-Scott,[93] and filmmaker John Gulager. [94]

From the mid 1970s [95][96] until her death, Feury and her students frequently showcased the work of playwright Horton Foote, presenting four of his plays in their entirety [54][96][97] plus a number of individual scenes from Foote's magnum opus, The Orphans' Home Cycle.[54] In 1984, in what would prove to be her final film role, Feury was cast, appropriately enough, in the film version of Foote’s 1918, the seventh of The Orphans' Home Cycle's nine plays.[55][98]

Illness and death

Feury struggled with narcolepsy. When she would come out of one of its spells she could be lucid as though she had been alert during the episode.[99] She died Wednesday, November 20, 1985 in a car accident, a head-on collision, in West Los Angeles.[82]

Stage credits (partial listing)

These are acting credits except where otherwise indicated.

Opened Closed Title Writer(s) Company and/or Venue Director(s) Role
Feb 26, 1948
Jul 10, 1948
 Me and Molly Gertrude Berg
Music arr. - Lehman Engel 		Belasco Theatre Ezra Stone Vera Wertheimer (as Margaret Feury)
Feb 26, 1949
Feb 26, 1949
 Cock-a-Doodle-Do [100] Iris Tree
Music - Ned Rorem 		Lenox Hill Playhouse Margaret Barker Norah (as Margaret Feury)
Nov 14, 1949
NA
 The Closing Door [101] Alexander Knox Wilbur Theatre Lee Strasberg NA (as Margaret Feury)
Jun 6, 1950
NA
 Earth Spirit [102] Frank Wedekind Studio 7
Provincetown Playhouse 		John Stix Lulu (as Margaret Feury)
Jan 28, 1951
Feb 24, 1951
 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation - Paul Green
Incidental music - Lan Adomian 		ANTA Playhouse Lee Strasberg Ensemble (as Margaret Feury)
Mar 13, 1952
NA
 The Grass Harp [103] Truman Capote
Music - Virgil Thomson 		Colonial Theatre Robert Lewis Choir Mistress (as Margaret Feury)
May 28, 1952
June 8, 1952
 Sunday Breakfast Emilio Rubio and Miriam Balf Coronet Theatre Stella Adler Martha Decker (as Margaret Feury)
Aug 23, 1953
Aug 28, 1953
 Make Momma Happy [104][105] George Baxt Laketside Theatre (in Lake Hopatcong Landing) NA Norma Talmadge Greenwald (as Margaret Feury)
Nov 18, 1953
Nov 22, 1953
 Make Momma Happy [106] George Baxt Parsons Theatre (in Hartford, CT) NA Norma Talmadge Greenwald (as Margaret Feury)
Nov 24, 1953
Dec 6, 1953
 Make Momma Happy [107] George Baxt Walnut Street Theatre NA Norma Talmadge Greenwald (as Margaret Feury)
Summer 1954
Summer 1954
(Five performances)
 A Hatful of Rain [108][109][110] Michael V. Gazzo The Actors Studio Frank Corsaro Putski
Jun 19, 1955
NA
 Three Players of a Summer Game [111] Tennessee Williams White Barn Theatre Henry Hewes NA (as Peg Feury)
May 21, 1956
NA
 The Man With the Golden Arm Jack Kirkland Cherry Lane Theatre Louis MacMillan Zosh
July 8, 1957
NA
Volpone [112] Ben Jonson
Stefan Zweig - Adaptation 		Boston Summer Theater
New England Mutual Hall 		Gene Frankel Canina
Mar 17, 1958
Mar 29, 1958
 Picnic [113] William Inge Coconut Grove Playhouse Albert Lipton NA
Apr 20, 1959
NA
 The Innocents [114] William Archibald
Henry James - Novel
Alex North - Music 		Gramercy Arts Theatre Harvey Cort Miss Giddens
Aug 30, 1961
Sep 11, 1961
 Sweet Bird of Youth [115][116] Tennessee Williams Gateway Playhouse David Sheldon Alexandra Del Lago, the Princess Kosmonopolis (as Peg Feury)
Mar 20, 1963
Mar 30, 1963
 The Lady of the Camellias Giles Cooper
Adaptation - Terrence McNally
Novel - Alexandre Dumas, fils
Music - Ned Rorem 		Winter Garden Theater Franco Zeffirelli Jeanne
Jun 13, 1963
NA
 Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare
Music - David Amram 		New York Shakespeare Festival
Delacorte Theatre 		Joseph Papp Octavia
Jun 22, 1964
Oct 3, 1964
 The Three Sisters Anton Chekhov
Randall Jarrell - English version 		The Actors Studio Theatre
Morosco Theatre 		Lee Strasberg Olga (Replacement for Geraldine Page)
May 17, 1967
Jul 16, 1967
 Drums in the Night Bertolt Brecht
Translation - Frank Jones 		Circle in the Square Downtown Theodore Mann Emily Balicke
Apr 24, 1968
Apr 27, 1968
 The Exercise Lewis John Carlino John Golden Theatre Alfred Ryder The Actress (Standby for Anne Jackson)
Jan 25, 1974
Jan 27, 1974
 La boheme [117] Libretto - Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Music - Giacomo Puccini 		Lyric Opera Assn. of Orange County
Forum Theater 		Peggy Feury Directed by
1975 or 1976
NA
 Old Man [118] Horton Foote - adaptation
William Faulkner - Story 		Loft Studio Theatre (in Los Angeles) Peggy Feury Directed by
Jun __, 1980
Jul 6, 1980
 Totem Pole (World Premiere)[119] Paul Smith Los Angeles Actors' Theater Gennaro Montanino Mrs. Goss
___ __, 1981
NA
 The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees (World Premiere)[97] Horton Foote Loft Studio Theatre (in Los Angeles, CA) William Traylor Mrs. Campbell
___ __, 1981
NA
 Blind Date (World Premiere)[97] Horton Foote Loft Studio Theatre (in Los Angeles, CA) Peggy Feury Directed by
Apr 13, 1984
NA
 Cousins (World Premiere)[120][121] Horton Foote Loft Studio (in Los Angeles, CA) William Traylor
Peggy Feury 		Corella Davenport (and Directed by)

Notes

  1. ↑ Peterson first came to prominence in 1953 with the production of his play, the coming-of-age tale, Take a Giant Step. Peterson would go on to write scripts for TV and film.[25] Less than a decade later, following their divorce and Feury's remarriage, Peterson's semi-autobiographical play Entertain a Ghost was produced, chronicling a deteriorating marriage between a fictional playwright and actress with obvious parallels to Peterson and Feury.[26] The production itself was no less ill-starred; a generally sympathetic notice from the Village Voice ("a daring and deeply exploratory new play, the best damned failure I've seen in years") proved too little, too late; by the time it was published, the play had already closed, after only eight performances.[27][28]
  2. ↑ Writing in 1977, Wolcott had no way of knowing just how ironic his Lily Tomlin punch line might appear to readers just a decade later, in light of the close personal and professional relationship that had developed between Tomlin and Feury in the interim.[14][53]

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