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Peggy Ryan (born Margaret O'Rene Ryan on 28 August
1924 in Long Beach, California - 30 October 2004
in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an United
States|American dancer who starred in a series of
movie musicals at Universal Studios tapping with
Donald O'Connor.

Her parents were the Vaudeville team "The Merry
Dancing Ryans," and Peggy joined them onstage
before she was two years old. Her singing, acting,
and dancing skills were noticed by George Murphy,
who helped her get a role in 1937's Top of the
Town. Her first pairing with O'Connor was 1942's
What's Cookin'?, and they appeared in films
together throughout World War II.

She married James Cross in 1945; they were
divorced in 1952.

She left Universal and was paired up with dancer
Ray McDonald for 1949's Shamrock Hill and 1953's
All Ashore, and married him in 1953. They toured
together in a nightclub act before being divorced
in 1957.

Her third wedding, in 1958, was to Hawaiian
columnist Eddie Sherman, following which she left
movies for choreography and semi-retirement.

She was brought back to the small screen to play a
minor role, as a secretary, in Hawaii Five-0.

She was continuing to teach tap-dance up to two
days before her death from the effects of a
stroke.

==Credits==
*The Wedding of Jack and Jill - 1930
*Top of the Town - 1937
*Women Men Marry - 1937
*Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue - 1938
*The Flying Irishman - 1939
*She Married a Cop - 1939
*The Grapes of Wrath - 1940
*Sailor's Lady - 1940
*What's Cookin'? - 1942
*Girls' Town - 1942
*Miss Annie Rooney - 1942
*Private Buckaroo - 1942
*Give Out, Sisters - 1942
*Get Hep to Love - 1942
*When Johnny Comes Marching Home - 1942
*Mister Big - 1943
*Top Man - 1943
*Chip Off the Old Block - 1944
*This Is the Life - 1944
*The Merry Monahans - 1944
*Babes on Swing Street - 1944
*Bowery to Broadway - 1944
*Here Come the Co-eds - 1945
*Patrick the Great - 1945
*That's the Spirit - 1945
*On Stage Everybody - 1945
*Men in Her Diary - 1945
*There's a Girl in My Heart - 1949
*Shamrock Hill - 1949
*All Ashore - 1953
*Hawaii Five-O - 1968 (television series)