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Peggy Wood and Charles Purcell in the original Broadway production of Maytime (1917). Mary Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator.She studied voice in France with soprano Emma Calvé.Wood was an early member of the Actors' Equity Association, spending nearly 50 years onstage, beginning in the chorus and ...
Peggy Wood. Actress: The Sound of Music. Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with one single role in each medium. She made warm, lasting impressions as the benevolent, strong-willed Scandinanvian matriarch Marta Hansen in the series drama Mama (1949), and as the knowing Mother Abbess who gently but firmly steers Julie Andrews' novice ...
Peggy Wood. Actress: The Sound of Music. Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with one single role in each medium. She made warm, lasting impressions as the benevolent, strong-willed Scandinanvian matriarch Marta Hansen in the series drama Mama (1949), and as the knowing Mother Abbess who gently but firmly steers Julie Andrews' novice ...
Mar 29, 2016 · Peggy Wood, star of TV's "Mama" and an Oscar nominee for her performance as the Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music," discusses her long career in this rare...
Actresses Bette Davis (All About Eve, Jezebel) and Peggy Wood (The Sound Of Music, MAMA) sit down with Dick Cavett to discuss their personal and professional...
Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen ...
Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth; and her final screen appearance as Mother ...
Mar 19, 1978 · Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn on. Feb. 9, 1892, the daughter of Eugene and Mary Gardner Wood. Her father, a feature writer for The New York World, had her take voice lessons to develop her ...
Sep 20, 2018 · Born February 9, 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, Mary Margaret (Peggy) Wood was the daughter of journalist Eugene Wood and telegraph operator Mary Gardner Wood. A lilting soprano, she began taking sing…
(1892–1978). Stage, television, and film performer. A striking soprano beauty who played the heroines in many Broadway musicals and operettas, she later became a popular character actress specializing in matronly ...
