Peggy Ann Garner Biography

Fast Facts

• Made her screen acting debut in the film "Little Miss Thoroughbred" in 1938
• Began modeling and acting in summer stock productions during her early childhood
• Quote: "(On her lackluster film career as an adult): "I wasn't pretty like a lot of the others․ Beauty is what they wanted․""
• After retiring from the film industry, she worked as a real estate broker in the 1960s and an automobile sales manager in the 1970s
• Best known as a child actress who played young Jane Eyre in 1943's "Jane Eyre" and Francie in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn․"
• Was a regular panelist on the game show "Who Said That?" during the 1950s
• Made guest appearances on TV series like "Bonanza," "Perry Mason," and "The Man from U․N․C․L․E․"