# Peggy Moran

Peggy Moran (born Mary Jeanette Moran, October 23, 1918 – October 24, 2002) was an American film actress who appeared in films between 1938 and 1943.

## Early years

Born Marie Jeanette Moran on October 23, 1918, in Clinton, Iowa, Moran was the daughter of Earl Moran, an artist specializing in pin-ups for calendars and magazines, and dancer Louise Scott, formerly a member of the Denishawn Dance Company.
Moran's family moved to Hollywood when she was 5. She attended the Micheltorina School and John Marshall High School, graduating in 1937.

## Career

Moran's film career began at Warner Bros. in the late 1930s. She starred in a number of B movies, including The Mummy's Hand (1940), Slightly Tempted (1940), Horror Island (1941), Treat 'Em Rough (1942), and King of the Cowboys (1943), and played smaller parts in A pictures, such as the "first cigarette girl" in Ninotchka (1939). After marrying director Henry Koster on October 29, 1942, a bust of Moran was featured in every picture her husband directed. After her marriage, Moran retired from acting and appeared in only one other film; a documentary made in 2000. The existing bust did not fit the period of one film, so Koster had a new bust made at a cost of $4000. Films also used "silhouettes, cameos, paintings, and even photographs" of Moran.

## Personal life

Koster and Moran had two sons. After Koster retired in 1966, the couple traveled extensively until his death in 1988.

## Death

On October 24, 2002, only one day after her 84th birthday, Moran died of complications from injuries she had suffered in a car accident on August 26, 2002. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1938 | Gold Diggers in Paris | Golddigger | Alternative title: The Gay Impostors |
| 1938 | Boy Meets Girl | New York operator | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Secrets of an Actress | Actress Waiting to See Carstairs | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Campus Cinderella | Co-Ed | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Girls' School | Myra | |
| 1938 | The Sisters | Girl | Uncredited |
| 1939 | Rhythm of the Saddle | Maurine McClune | |
| 1939 | King of the Underworld | Young Man's Wife | Scenes deleted |
| 1939 | Zenobia | Party Guest | Uncredited Alternative title: Elephants Never Forget |
| 1939 | Winter Carnival | Viola | |
| 1939 | Ninotchka | First Cigarette Girl | Uncredited |
| 1939 | Little Accident | Tall Girl | Uncredited |
| 1939 | First Love | Girl at School | Uncredited |
| 1939 | The Big Guy | Joan Lawson | Alternative title: Warden of the Big House |
| 1940 | West of Carson City | Millie Harkins | |
| 1940 | Oh Johnny, How You Can Love | Kelly Archer | |
| 1940 | Danger on Wheels | Pat O'Shea | |
| 1940 | Alias the Deacon | Phyllis | Alternative title: The Hillbilly Deacon |
| 1940 | Hot Steel | Babe Morrison | |
| 1940 | I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby | Linda Carroll | |
| 1940 | Argentine Nights | Peggy | |
| 1940 | The Mummy's Hand | Marta Solvani | |
| 1940 | Spring Parade | Irene | |
| 1940 | Slightly Tempted | Judy Ross | |
| 1940 | One Night in the Tropics | Mickey Fitzgerald | |
| 1940 | Trail of the Vigilantes | Barbara Thornton | |
| 1941 | Double Date | Penny Kirkland | |
| 1941 | Horror Island | Wendy Creighton | |
| 1941 | Hello, Sucker | Rosalie Watson | |
| 1941 | Flying Cadets | Kitty Randall | |
| 1942 | Treat 'Em Rough | Betty Newman | |
| 1942 | There's One Born Every Minute | Helen Barbara Twine | |
| 1942 | Drums of the Congo | Enid Waldron | |
| 1942 | The Mummy's Tomb | Marta Solvani Banning | Uncredited |
| 1942 | Seven Sweethearts | Albert "Al" Van Maaster | Alternative title: Tulip Time |
| 1943 | King of the Cowboys | Judy Mason | |