“There are actors who you wonder, ‘Are they real?’ Well, he was real. Bucket Truck, Climber, Chipper & Hauling. She died on March 10, 2014 in Ireland. NEW YORK (AP) — Peggy Cummins, a Welsh-born stage and film actress who worked just a few years in Hollywood but left behind an indelible performance as the lethal, beret-wearing robber in the noir classic "Gun Crazy," has died at age 92. CourtesyMr. We’ll never know.If you were to look at her listing on the Internet Movie Database, her bio reads: “This promising 1950s Universal-International contract player had so much going for her — beauty, brains and talent — to go the distance, but she came up far short after deciding to retire for domestic life.”“I wish I knew someone who could change it, it’s so wrong,” Helmerich said of the listing, adding that she has little interest in online activities.“My children put me on Facebook a couple of years ago,” she said, “and I had them take me off the next day.”Helmerich was married and already the mother of her first son when Hollywood came calling one last time.One of the biggest movie stars in the world, William Holden, wanted her in his next film to play his romantic interest.

Her mother, Margaret "Peggy" (Meenehan), was a housewife, and her father, Mike Dowd, worked as a Washington, D.C. police inspector.

He was also so good-looking, and I liked him so much.“Well, I decide to call him, and we hadn’t talked in a couple of months, and, of course, it turns out he’s been in North Dakota for more than a month working on an oil well.

Your notification has been saved. Fully Insured. Helmerich will be doing a Q-and-A after a screening of her movie "Bright Victory" at the cinema. He asked me to come up with five happy married couples in Hollywood that we knew, and we had a hard time doing it.”So she agreed to marry Walt (“I loved him, and I was not going to let him go back to working on an oil well without me telling him that”), and as she says, “I started to see things differently.”She came to Tulsa, and she started a family. Peggy Pope, who played a secretary in the 1980 movie 9 to 5, appeared in dozens of TV series and acted on Broadway, has died. She will speak about making movies during the “golden age” of Hollywood and will answer audience questions.“I love what they do at Circle Cinema, and Clark (Wiens, co-founder of the theater’s foundation) has asked me to help with a few things,” Helmerich said.“They even put my name on their ‘Walk of Fame’ sidewalk, and that was the sweetest thing.”The screenings come a few days before the Tulsa Library Trust’s presentation of the annual Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award on SaturdayThis year’s recipient is Rick Atkinson, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and military historian who has written extensively about World War II.“Bright Victory” is a WWII drama in which Helmerich starred opposite Oscar-nominee Arthur Kennedy, who played a soldier blinded by sniper fire in North Africa and who returns home and struggles to adjust to losing his sight.Dow plays a woman who befriends and falls in love with Kennedy’s character in the town where the U.S. Army General Hospital is located.“That was my war,” she said, clasping her hands and remembering the events of the 1940s in her hometown.She’s proud of “Bright Victory” — Helmerich beams as she recalls traveling to receive an award for the film from President Harry S. Truman, on behalf of the film’s story about the rehabilitation of veterans, including the ones depicted in the film who had been blinded in a variety of wartime injuries.“We filmed so much at the (Army) hospital, with (blinded veterans) working with us, and it was just amazing what these men were able to do,” Helmerich said.

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But the role for which she will always be best-known was one she almost turned down.The role in “Harvey” was a co-starring part, and she had the opportunity to be the female lead in a film with actor Van Heflin, she said. He must have written a thousand.”Their long-distance courtship eventually came to a head when she was invited to Washington, D.C., to accept President Truman’s award for “Bright Victory.”“Walt was perfect for this,” Helmerich said. TulsaWorld.com Tulsa, OK ©2020 Lee BHM Corp. You must be a full digital subscriber to read this article. CourtesyWalter Helmerich III and Peggy Dow Helmerich were married in 1951.

A Southern belle and a classic beauty, she was signed to a seven-year contract with Universal Pictures.Peggy Dow was on the cover of Life Magazine. She initially provides some rather broad comic relief in the novel, being as Irish as Paddy’s pig, as the old saying goes.

I reach him, and I thought he was going to jump through the phone the way that he told me he’d been so sad not hearing from me.”But when she asked if he would be her escort, he gave an ultimatum: I’ll come if you’ll agree to marry me.“I finally gave in, and I said, ‘Oh, OK. OK, darn it, I will,” she said, chuckling.They were married Nov. 23, 1951, in Athens, Tennessee, in a church “lighted entirely by hundreds of white tapers and decorated with gardenias in garlands, baskets and vases,” according to a Tulsa World report.Helmerich’s last film as Peggy Dow was “I Want You,” a wartime drama in which she acted opposite Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire and Farley Granger in a film for studio executive Samuel Goldwyn, who had asked Universal to loan Dow out for the film.It was her second film for director Mark Robson (“Peyton Place”), whom Helmerich refers to as “one of my mentors” and who would direct films for another three decades.Would Helmerich have continued to work with the two-time Oscar-nominated director and other esteemed filmmakers? Helmerich will be doing a Q-and-A after a screening of her movie "Bright Victory" at the cinema. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa WorldA poster of the movie "Bright Victory" is signed by one of its stars, Peggy Helmerich.

Eileen Colgan was born on January 20, 1934 in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland. Peggy Cummins was an Irish actress, appearing in several films between 1940 and 1961.