Remembering Peggy Cummins: From Child Star to Film Noir Icon
Peggy Cummins was an Irish actress best remembered as the bank-robbing femme fatale in the 1950 noir classic Gun Crazy. Born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller on 18 December 1925 in Wales to Irish parents, she grew up in Dublin and later moved to London. Her stage debut at 13 led to early film roles in Dr. O’Dowd (1940), Salute John Citizen (1942) and the popular English Without Tears (1944). She married businessman Derek Dunnett in 1950 and had two children. Cummins retired from movies in 1961 and devoted much of her later life to charity work supporting children with cerebral palsy. Honoured at San Francisco’s Noir City Film Festival in 2013, she passed away on 29 December 2017 at age 92 after suffering a stroke.
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