Peggy Cummins

Actress

Female

Born Dec 18, 1925

Age 87

Hometown Prestatyn

Other Names Augusta Margaret ...

Peggy Cummins is a retired Irish actress. Cummins is best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy (1949), playing a trigger happy femme fatale who robs banks with her lover.

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John Dall
Dated 1949
Derek Dunnett

Married 1949 - 2001
Bob Landry

Dated 1948
Edward Lasker
Dated 1947
Huntington Hartford
Dated 1947 - 1948
Cary Grant
Dated 1947
Howard Hughes
Dated
John F. Kennedy
Dated

News + Updates

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Sean Martinfield: Peggy Cummins Honored At San Francisco's Noir City Film Festival
Huffington Post - Jan 29, 2013

San Francisco's most enticing and provocative film festival, NOIR CITY opened its 11th season on Friday night at the city's celebrated movie palace, the Castro Theatre. First on the roster of the festival's 27 films was Gun Crazy (1950), which stands alone among classic Noir. Following the screening, the film's pistol-packin' leading lady, Peggy Cummins was interviewed by Noir City producer Eddie Muller, a.k.a, "The Czar of Noir." At 87,
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Watch: Intrigue, Betrayal And Murder
Huffington Post - Jan 26, 2013

The Steve Jobs film is apparently "embarrassing," "Fruitvale" doesn't have a release date yet and, with the recent will-they-or-won't-they intrigue surrounding the release of "The Canyons," our movie-going hearts just can't take it anymore. Thankfully, there's the San Francisco Film Noir Festival, Noir City. Starting Friday night, the Castro Theatre will host its annual ode to noir. And with 27 films, they're bringing all the suspense, intrigue and betrayal you can handle. ...
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'Hitchcock': Anthony Hopkins Recalls Scariest Movie Scene
MTV News - Nov 20, 2012

To play the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, one has to be familiar with what scares people. When MTV News sat down with Anthony Hopkins and the cast of the "Hitchcock," we asked them to share their scariest movie moments. Hopkins, in particular, had a vivid memory of that exact moment. "There's a funny old movie, 1946. I was a young kid. It was called 'Moss Rose' with Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, and Peggy Cummins, and I'll never forget i...
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Debra Levine: Screen Siren Peggy Cummins Returns To Hollywood For Tcm Fest
Huffington Post - Apr 23, 2012

It was wild watching Gun Crazy (1950) projected on the humongous screen of the Egyptian Theatre as I did on April 14 at TCM Fest. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's pulpy film noir concerns a couple of newly weds; played by John Dall and Peggy Cummins, they're just doin' what newly weds do. They're livin', lovin', and workin'... and they're shootin'. It's a match made in hell -- just a couple of good old-fashioned American gun nuts. Teaming up, they d...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1925 Birth Born on December 18, 1925.

TEENAGE

1938 12 Years Old In 1938 actor Peter Brock noticed Peggy Cummins at a Dublin tram stop and introduced her to Dublin's Gate Theatre Company. … Read More

1945 19 Years Old In 1945, Peggy Cummins was brought to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, to play Amber in Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber. … Read More

TWENTIES

1950 24 Years Old 1 More Event

She returned to London in 1950 to marry and work in British films.

1952 26 Years Old In 1952 she starred in Who Goes There! and in 1953 she appeared in Meet Mr. Lucifer an Ealing Studios comedy. … Read More

THIRTIES

1961 35 Years Old Cummins's last film, in 1961, was Darcy Conyers's In the Doghouse alongside Leslie Phillips. In 1998, Gun Crazy (1950) was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2006 80 Years Old On 14 June 2006 she appeared as guest of honour at a special screening of Night of the Demon in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, hosted by the Elstree Film & Television Heritage Group. … Read More

2010 84 Years Old On 29 September 2010 Peggy Cummins introduced the 1953 film Street Corner as part of the Capital Tales Event at BFI-Southbank London hosted by Curator Jo Botting. … Read More

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