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Peggy Connelly is a Actor American born on 25 september 1931 at Shreveport (USA)

Peggy Connelly

Peggy Connelly
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Birth name Peggy Lou Connelly
Nationality USA
Birth 25 september 1931 at Shreveport (USA)
Death 11 june 2007 (at 75 years) at Fort Worth (USA)

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

Biography

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. She also did a stint with The New Christy Minstrels, with whom she recorded two albums: Presenting, and In Person. Among other films, she appeared as a Flora Dora girl in The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), and as Elizabeth Wilson in Houseboat (1958).
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Filmography of Peggy Connelly (3 films)

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Actress

The Matchmaker, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse, Russell Collins
Rating67% 3.39583.39583.39583.39583.3958
Set in 1884, the story focuses on Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who supports herself by a variety of means, with matchmaking as her primary source of income. Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy but miserly merchant from Yonkers, New York, has hired her to find him a wife, but unbeknownst to him Dolly is determined to fill the position herself. When he expresses his intent to travel to New York City to woo milliner Irene Molloy, Dolly shows him the photograph of a woman she calls Miss Ernestina Simple and tells him the buxom beauty would be a far better choice for him.
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Houseboat
Houseboat (1958)
, 1h50
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert, Harry Guardino
Rating65% 3.297873.297873.297873.297873.29787
For several years, Tom Winters (Grant) has been estranged from his wife and their three children, David (Petersen), Elizabeth (Gibson), and Robert (Herbert). The film begins as he returns home from Europe shortly after his wife's death. The children want to stay in the country with their mother's wealthy family, including her parents and her sister Carolyn (Hyer), but Tom takes them to Washington, D.C., where he works in the US State Department.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, 1h49
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Glenda Farrell, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Rating64% 3.2441253.2441253.2441253.2441253.244125
The film relates the fictionalized story of Evelyn Nesbit. Nesbit was a model and actress who became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw. Nesbit served as a technical adviser on the film.