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Peggy Lee gjorde också ett antal filmer däribland den nya versionen 1953 av Al Jolsons Jazzsångaren (ursprungligen från 1927) och filmen från 1955 Pete Kelly’s Blues där hon spelade en alkoholiserad och deprimerad sångerska.
Dec 5, 2014 · The book could have been called “Peggy Lee Was a Big, Fat Liar.” If the scores of people Gavin interviewed are to be believed, Lee, who died in 2002 at 81, invented health problems (before she ...
Jan 19, 2013 · The singer: Peggy Lee. The musical: Peg, about both the bad times and the good times in her life and career. It is propelled by 29 songs, some her hits of yesteryear, others new tunes written for the show. It is scheduled to premiere in November, and it will be her Broadway debut in three respects – as a lyricist, co-author and star.
Jan 17, 2013 · Everybody who heard her advised her to hurry to Hollywood as fast as she could. Soon after getting her high school diploma, Peggy followed this advice. She gathered together all of her cash, got a train pass from her father, and left for Hollywood. She arrived with one battered suitcase and $18.
Sep 30, 2020 · The incomparable Peggy Lee (1920-2002), American pop and jazz singer, composer, and actress, was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota. The grandchild of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants, her depression-era childhood was brutal: The sixth of seven children, her mother died when she was four years old; her beloved father, an ...
Feb 6, 2022 · Peggy Lee's granddaughter, Holly Foster-Wells, with correspondent Mo Rocca, in the house where Lee grew up, in Wimbledon, N.D. CBS News Her mother had died when she was just four. ...
Jan 18, 2013 · Singer Peggy Lee was at work earning the $12,500 a week Basin Street felt she was worth. In the crowded supper club’s smoky silence, her voice grew successively sensual, blatant, desolate, flinty, intimate, and languorous, as she caressed the lyrics of a whole spectrum of blues and jazz songs. The patrons whistled and stomped in obvious ...
