1. Margaret "Peg" McCray, known as Peggy Thompson, Peggy or Peg Fenwick and Peg Padover, was an American screenwriter and playwright who worked in the US and French film industries, best known for writing the scripts for Whirlpool of Desire and All That Heaven Allows.
Peg Fenwick grew up in St Louis, Missouri, where she attended the Sacred Heart Convent School and the Mary Institute.
Peg Fenwick spent a year in France as a child, attending a school at St Germain, Paris, and had a Belgian governess.
Peg Fenwick studied at the University of California at Los Angeles for a year, then left and worked as a secretary for Hollywood director Rowland Lee.
Peg Fenwick did no original writing during that time, but did some continuity writing, and, fluent in French, she worked on the French adaptation of Honor Among Lovers.
Peg Fenwick wrote the story on which the film Remous was based.
Peg Fenwick's original title for it was A Kiss in the Dark, and she sold it for $5,000.
Peg Fenwick adapted Ben Lucien Burman's novel Blow for a Landing.
Peg Fenwick adapted the novel All That Heaven Allows by Edna Lee and Harry Lee into the screenplay for a film of the same name.
Peg Fenwick married Saul K Padover, a professor and author, in 1957.
Peg Fenwick was a member of the League of Women Voters, and worked as an activist in Brooklyn Heights to improve sanitation in the area in the 1970s.
Peg Fenwick's brother, Edward "Ted" McCray Thompson, was a reporter for the St Louis Post-Dispatch, St Louis Globe-Democrat, and St Louis Star-Times and the author of a book called Leg Man.