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Parents' names were Doyle and Elizabeth Blair.
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Peggie has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6230 Hollywood Boulevard.
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After her death, Peggie was cremated and her ashes were scattered.
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Peggie's measurements were 36-24 1/2-36 according to Celebrity Sleuth magazine.
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Peggie was 5 feet, 7 inches tall.
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Peggie used to return to her hometown of Appalachia VA at least once a year to visit her favorite aunt to whom she was very close.
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Reportedly walked out on second husband Robert Rains after an argument in which he said that her style of acting went out with Mary Pickford.
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Once stated in a magazine interview that she preferred rough and tough men over Caspar Milquetoasts. "[the latter] get the Hollyood horse laugh from me," said Peggie.
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Peggie's last appearance on-screen was a guest shot on The Virginian in 1966.
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Peggie's mother died the same month (April 1973) as her fourth husband Arthur Morganstern.
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Originally billed as Peggie Call after the last name of her first husband.
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Born in the same hometown as former Detroit Tigers outfielder Willie Horton, New York Times reporter Don Whitehead who also wrote The FBI Story, and 1964 Olympic sprinter Olan Cassell.
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The last movie Peggie Castle appeared in was Seven Hills of Rome in which she co-starred with famed tenor Mario Lanza.
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Once named the Ideal Hollywood Secretary by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce after portraying a secretary in the film Laughter in the Rain in which Peggie co-starred with Van Johnson and Jane Wyman.
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According to Hollywood lore, Peggie Castle was discovered by a talent agent while eating a shrimp cocktail in the seafood bar of the Farmer's Market in Los Angeles.
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Gossip columnist Walter Winchell once referred to Peggie as the poor man's Lana Turner.
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Played Bette Davis' daughter in the movie Payment on Demand. Betty Lynn, better known as Thelma Lou to fans of the Andy Griffith Show, played Peggie's sister in that film.
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In 1949, Peggie was voted Miss Classy Chassis by members of the United Automobile Workers Union from seven Western states.
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Peggie's first studio screen test was with future Lawman co-star John Russell.
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Peggie sang in numerous episodes of Lawman although she'd never had singing lessons in her life and had only sung on-screen once before: in an episode of Cheyenne entitled Fury at Rio Hondo.
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Had a daughter with third husband William McGarry named Erin. Erin McGarry was born in 1963.
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Dated war hero/actor Audie Murphy in the early 1950's.
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Peggie reportedly uttered one of the more infamous one-liners in Hollywood history when working on the set of a B-Western which had a terrible script, director, and working conditions. "Who do I have to sleep with to get out of this picture?" was Peggie's purported cry.
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A resident of Peggie's hometown of Appalachia, VA has recently written a two act play based on her life. Much of the dialogue in the play is taken from actual letters Peggie wrote to her favorite Aunt back home in Appalachia.
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Peggie Castle was married four times. She was married to Revis Call from 1945-50, to Robert Rains from 1951-54, to William McGarry from 1955-69, and to Arthur Morgenstern from 1971 until his death in early 1973. Third husband McGarry was the one who found her dead in her apartment.