1. Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass was an American actress, comedian, game show panelist, and announcer.
16 Facts About Peggy Cass
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Peggy Cass received acting training at HB Studio in New York City and eventually landed the lead role of Billie Dawn in a traveling production of Born Yesterday.
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Peggy Cass made her Broadway debut in 1949 with the play Touch and Go.
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Peggy Cass portrayed Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame on Broadway and in the film version, a role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Peggy Cass was cast as "First Woman" in the nine-member ensemble of the 1960 Broadway revue A Thurber Carnival, adapted by James Thurber from his own works.
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Peggy Cass appeared in the 1969 film comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.
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Peggy Cass starred with Jack Weston as suburban Los Angeles "parents" to a trio of performing chimpanzees.
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Weston portrayed Walter Hathaway, a real estate agent, and Peggy Cass was his zany wife, "mother" and booking agent for the Marquis Chimps, named Candy, Charlie and Enoch.
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Peggy Cass filled in as announcer on Jack Paar's late night talk show that aired in the 1970s on ABC.
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Peggy Cass was a regular panelist on To Tell the Truth from 1960 through its 1990 revival, appearing in most episodes in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Peggy Cass was a panelist on the pilot of the 1960s version of Match Game.
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Peggy Cass appeared in the late 1970s on Shoot for the Stars hosted by Geoff Edwards, which was another game show that partnered contestants with celebrities, filmed in New York City.
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In 1987, Peggy Cass was featured in the early Fox sitcom Women in Prison.
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Peggy Cass appeared on the pilot episode of Major Dad on September 17,1989.
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Peggy Cass portrayed Esther Nettleton, a civilian secretary working on the Marine base for Maj.
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On March 8,1999, Peggy Cass died of heart failure in New York City at age 74 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.