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Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 – October 16, 1984) was an American actress. As a child actress, Garner had her first film role in 1938. She won the Academy Juvenile Award for her work in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' (1945). Featured roles in such films as ''Black Widow'' (1954) did not help to establish her in mature film roles, and although she progressed to theatrical work, she made relatively few acting appearances as an adult. ==Life and career== Born in Canton, Ohio, Garner was pushed by her mother into the limelight and entered in talent quests while still a child. By 1938 she had made her first film appearance, and over the next few years appeared in several more films, including ''Jane Eyre'' (1943) and ''The Keys of the Kingdom'' (1944). She reached the height of her success at the age of 13 in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'' (1945), winning an Academy Juvenile Award largely for this performance. In the same year she showed she could handle comedy by giving a fine performance in ''Junior Miss'' (1945). Like many child performers, Garner was unable to make a successful transition into adult film roles. She guest-starred steadily in television roles from the early 1950s through the 1960s. She was a regular panelist on the NBC television series, ''Who Said That?'', along with H. V. Kaltenborn and Boris Karloff. In the summer of 1960, she was cast as Julie in the episode "Stopover" of David McLean's NBC western series, ''Tate''. In 1960 and again in 1962, she was cast in the episodes "Once Around the Circuit" and "Build My Gallows Low", respectively, of the ABC series, ''Adventures in Paradise'', with Gardner McKay. After her film career ended, she ventured into stage acting and had some success but also worked as a real estate agent and fleet car executive between acting jobs in order to support herself. In 1978, she surprised film audiences after a decade away from any feature film when she appeared as the pregnant aunt of the bride 'Candice Ruteledge' in the critically acclaimed ensemble Robert Altman film, ''A Wedding'' (1978). (Garner had worked with Altman before; he directed a 1961 episode of ''Bonanza'', "The Rival", in which she appeared as a girl being courted by Hoss Cartwright.) Her final screen performance was a small part in a 1980 made-for-television feature ''This Year's Blonde''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peggy Ann Garner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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