Peggy Cass

Peggy Cass was born on May 21, 1924 in USA. Peggy Cass's big-screen debut came with Auntie Mame directed by Morton DaCosta in 1958. Peggy Cass is known for Women in Prison directed by Gerren Keith, Julia Campbell stars as Vicki Springer and Blake Clark as Assistant Warden Clint Rafferty. The upcoming new tvshow Peggy Cass plays is Women in Prison - Season 1 which will be released on Oct 11, 1987.

Mary Margaret Cass was born May 21, 1924, in Boston, Massachusetts. After three years in the Cambridge Latin School drama club without one speaking part, she moved to New York, where she worked as a secretary, telephone operator, advertising solicitor and model. She joined a USO troupe that took her to Australia for seven months, but she did not appear in any shows (the U.S. troops had moved on). As understudy, she took Jan Sterling's part in a national tour of "Born Yesterday," finally being cast in her own right in the 1949 Broadway musical "Touch and Go." The mid 1950s brought her the defining role of Agnes Gooch in Ma tante (1958), her stage and screen performances earning her a Tony and an Oscar nomination, respectively. From then on, she was best known for her regular television quiz show appearances: Keep Talking (1958), Match Game 73 (1973), Password (1961), and To Tell the Truth (1956). She was very smart and very funny, but her signature was her unmistakably raspy voice. She died on March 8, 1999, at Manhattan's Sloane-Kettering Hospital of heart failure.