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Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee

Actor · 1920 – 2002 · Jamestown, New York, USA

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress, in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and performer. She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums—encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, and art songs. In 1952 Lee starred in The Jazz Singer, a Technicolor remake of the early Al Jolson part-talkie 1927 film of the same name. In 1955, she played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1955 she did the speaking and singing voices for several characters in Disney's Lady and the Tramp: she played the human "Darling", the dog "Peg", and the two Siamese cats "Si and Am". In 1957, Lee guest starred on the short-lived ABC variety program, The Guy Mitchell Show. Lee continued to perform into the 1990s, sometimes using a wheelchair. After years of poor health, she died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81.

Series24

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV5.3

    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Carol Burnett Show

    1967 · 74 votes

  • TV6.4
  • TV7.0

    The Bob Hope Show

    1950 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1950 · 13 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Steve Allen Show

    1956 · 6 votes

  • TV8.2

    The Judy Garland Show

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Danny Kaye Show

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV7.8

    The George Gobel Show

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV5.0

    The Hollywood Palace

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8
  • TV7.4
  • TV6.9
  • TV6.5

    The Johnny Cash Show

    1969 · 4 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Pearl Bailey Show

    1971 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Julie Andrews Hour

    1972 · 2 votes

  • TV10.0

    The Bobby Darin Show

    1973 · 1 votes

  • TV6.8

Movies19

  • Movie7.1

    Lady and the Tramp

    1955 · 5.7K votes

  • Movie4.3

    Night of 100 Stars III

    1990 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Stage Door Canteen

    1943 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Pete Kelly's Blues

    1955 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.0

    The Jazz Singer

    1953 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Mr. Music

    1950 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.0

    The Powers Girl

    1943 · 5 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.6

    Jasper in a Jam

    1946 · 9 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie
  • Movie8.0
  • Movie
  • Movie8.0

    Jazz Ball

    1956 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.7