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Actor Born: January 10, 1910 in Pine Bluff, AR Death: May 11, 1941 in North Hollywood, CA Biography:Another Hollywood hard-luck case, red-haired "Peggy Shannon" (born Winona Sammon) was brought in by producer "B.P. Schulberg" as a replacement for "Clara Bow", who had suffered a nervous breakdown during the production of "The Secret Call" (1931). "Shannon" earned heaps of publicity, and along with "Sylvia Sidney", was considered Bow's replacement in more ways than one.
No overnight success, "Shannon" had studied dance with famous choreographer Ned Wayburn and had made her stage bow in the 1923 version of the Ziegfeld Follies. She returned for the 1924 show, which featured "Will Rogers" and "Ann Pennington", and appeared in two subsequent editions of "Earl Carroll"'s rival Vanities. Her acting debut came opposite "Humphrey Bogart"'s wife, "Mayo Methot", in What Ann Brought Home (1927), and she later interrupted an already waning Hollywood career to star in Page Miss Glory in 1934. Although she... Full Biography
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