Background
Peggy Cummins was born on 18 December 1925 in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, United Kingdom.
Peggy Cummins was born on 18 December 1925 in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, United Kingdom.
She made her debut as a teenager in Dr O’Dowd (40, Herbert Mason); Salute John Citizen (42, Maurice Elvey); Old Mother Riley Detective (43, Lance Comfort); Welcome Mr Washington (45, Leslie Hiscott); English Without Tears (44, Harold French).
At that moment, with great fanfare, Cummins was recruited by Fox to play the world-famously sexy lead in Forever Amber. But she was as quickly abandoned and replaced with Linda Darnell. The studio tried to recover by casting her as Ronald Column s daughter in The Late George Apley (47, Joseph L. Manldewicz), but she was reckoned a failure again in Moss Rose (47, Gregory Ratoff). So she was put with horses in Green Grass of Wyoming (48, Louis King) and sent back to England to make Escape (49, Manldewicz); If This Be Sin (49, Ratoff): and Operation X (50, Ratoff).
Back in Britain, she made Who Goes There? (52, Anthony Kimmins); Street Corner (53, Muriel Box); Always a Bride (53, Ralph Smart); Love Lottery (54, Charles Crichton); To Dorothy a Son (54, Box); Carry On Admiral (57, Val Guest); Hell Drivers (57, Cy Endfield), wher she needs to lie a good deal sexier; Night of the Demon (57, Jacques Tourneur); The Captain’s Table (58, Jack Lee); Your Money for Your Wife (59, Anthony Simmons); Dentist in the Chair (60, Don Chaffey); In the Doghouse (61, D’Arcy Conyers).
As a tiny, bright-blond super-shot—as Annie Laurie Starr—in Gun Crazy (49, Joseph II. Lewis), Peggy Cummins was making a farewell to America. She is brilliant, dangerous, and very sexy, with a wide-eyed love of adrenaline, but her patron in the U.S., Fox, had decided already that she was through. And Gun Crazy was a small picture—as well as a triumph.