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Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.
Peggy Wood. Actress: The Sound of Music. Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with one single role in each medium. She made warm, lasting impressions as the benevolent, strong-willed Scandinanvian matriarch Marta Hansen in the series drama Mama (1949), and as the knowing Mother Abbess who ...
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Peggy Wood. Actress: The Sound of Music. Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with one single role in each medium. She made warm, lasting impressions as the benevolent, strong-willed Scandinanvian matriarch Marta Hansen in the series drama Mama (1949), and as the knowing Mother Abbess who ...
- February 9, 1892
- March 18, 1978
Mar 29, 2016 · Peggy Wood, star of TV's "Mama" and an Oscar nominee for her performance as the Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music," discusses her long career in this rare TV interview from 1966.
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She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth; and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music,...
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Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring ...
Sep 20, 2018 · A one-time president of The American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), Peggy Wood died following a stroke on March 18, 1978 at the age of 86. ESSENTIAL FILMS. A STAR IS BORN (1937), directed by William A. Wellman.