Margaret Frances "Peg" Lynch was an American writer, actress, and sitcom creator.
15 Facts About Peg Lynch
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Peg Lynch created, wrote, starred in, and owned her own sitcom and she retained that ownership throughout her life.
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Peg Lynch wrote over 11,000 scripts for radio and television.
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Peg Lynch graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1937, majoring in English with an emphasis on writing and dramatics.
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Peg Lynch agreed to help out at KROC in Rochester, a radio station belonging to a classmate's father.
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Peg Lynch wrote commercials, a daily half-hour woman's show, a weekly half-hour theater show, a weekly farm news program, and three 10-minute plays and two five-minute sketches per week.
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Peg Lynch refused because it would require her to give up the ownership rights of Ethel and Albert.
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Peg Lynch was asked to play Ethel, which she initially refused to do; however, after several actresses were auditioned and none found suitable, Peg Lynch was signed to play the role.
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Margaret Hamilton was a friend of Peg Lynch's and appeared regularly on the show, playing Albert's aunt.
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Peg Lynch has lost none of her uncanny knack for catching the small situation in married life and developing it into a gem of quiet humor.
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Peg Lynch owned the rights to her program, and it was not limited to a single network.
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Peg Lynch continued to perform her comedy shows at Old Time Radio Conventions around the US up to 2013.
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Peg Lynch married Odd Knut Ronning, a Norwegian pulp and paper engineer in Manhattan on August 12,1948.
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Peg Lynch lived in Becket, Massachusetts, and continued to write, revisiting the characters of Ethel and Albert as a couple in their nineties.
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Peg Lynch died on July 24,2015, in Becket at the age of 98, following a sudden decline in health.