Peggy Stratford

Peggy Stratford was born on Mar 21, 1909 in Nicaragua. Peggy Stratford's big-screen debut came with Pursued directed by Louis King in 1934.

This pretty brunette actress with an all-too-brief career in pictures was born Muriel James to American parents Felix and Lucille James in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. With her parents, she moved back to the U.S. as a small child around 1911 and in her teens trained for acting at the Cumnock School of Expression in Los Angeles. She later pursued studies at the University of California. Peggy was apparently quite good at tennis and in 1927 married a fellow player named Gerald Stratford. They divorced eight years later in 1935. Her proper acting career began on the west coast stage in Dangerous Corner, The Late Christopher Bean and other plays, prior to entering films in 1934 (she also went on tour with the well-known actor