Peggy Shannon: In the "It Girl"'s Sad Footsteps
A tribute to stage and screen star Peggy Shannon (Winona Sammon, 1907-1941), a prolific artist with a sad end. Born in Pine Bluff Arkansas, she was only 16 when she went into the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 as a chorus girl (she’d auditioned while visiting an aunt in new York). The show lasted through 1924. […]