Peggy Moran

• Name — Peggy Moran • Birth Name — Mary Jeanette Moran • Born — 23 October 1918 • Birthplace — Clinton, Iowa, U.S. • Died — 24 October 2002 • Place of death — Camarillo, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1938–1943 • Children — 2 • Father — Earl Moran

Born Marie Jeanette Moran on October 23, 1918, in Clinton, Iowa, Moran was the daughter of Earl Moran, an artist specializing in pin-ups for calendars and magazines, and dancer Louise Scott, formerly a member of the Denishawn Dance Company. Moran's family moved to Hollywood when she was 5. She attended the Micheltorina School and John Marshall High School, graduating in 1937.

Moran's film career began at Warner Bros. in the late 1930s. She starred in a number of B movies, including The Mummy's Hand (1940), Slightly Tempted (1940), Horror Island (1941), Treat 'Em Rough (1942), and King of the Cowboys (1943), and played smaller parts in A pictures, such as the "first cigarette girl" in Ninotchka (1939). After marrying director Henry Koster on October 29, 1942, a bust of Moran was featured in every picture her husband directed. After her marriage, Moran retired from acting and appeared in only one other film: a documentary made in 2000. The existing bust did not fit the period of one film, so Koster had a new bust made at a cost of $4000. Films also used "silhouettes, cameos, paintings, and even photographs" of Moran.

Koster and Moran had two sons. After Koster retired in 1966, the couple traveled extensively until his death in 1988.

On October 24, 2002, only one day after her 84th birthday, Moran died of complications from injuries she had suffered in a car accident on August 26, 2002. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1938 — Gold Diggers in Paris — Golddigger — Alternative title: The Gay Impostors • Boy Meets Girl — New York Operator — Uncredited • Secrets of an Actress — Actress — Uncredited • Campus Cinderella — Co-Ed — Uncredited • Girls' School — Myra • The Sisters — Girl — Uncredited • 1939 — Rhythm of the Saddle — Maurine McClune • King of the Underworld — Young Man's Wife — Scenes deleted • Zenobia — Party Guest — Uncredited Alternative title: Elephants Never Forget • Winter Carnival — Viola • Ninotchka — First Cigarette Girl — Uncredited • Little Accident — Tall Girl — Uncredited • First Love — Girl at School — Uncredited • The Big Guy — Joan Lawson — Alternative title: Warden of the Big House • 1940 — West of Carson City — Millie Harkins • Oh Johnny, How You Can Love — Kelly Archer • Danger on Wheels — Pat O'Shea • Alias the Deacon — Phyllis — Alternative title: The Hillbilly Deacon • Hot Steel — Babe Morrison • I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby — Linda Carroll • Argentine Nights — Peggy • The Mummy's Hand — Marta Solvani • Spring Parade — Irene • Slightly Tempted — Judy Ross • One Night in the Tropics — Mickey Fitzgerald • Trail of the Vigilantes — Barbara Thornton • 1941 — Double Date — Penny Kirkland • Horror Island — Wendy Creighton • Hello, Sucker — Rosalie Watson • Flying Cadets — Kitty Randall • 1942 — Treat 'Em Rough — Betty Newman • There's One Born Every Minute — Helen Barbara Twine • Drums of the Congo — Enid Waldron • The Mummy's Tomb — Marta Solvani Banning — Uncredited • Seven Sweethearts — Albert "Al" Van Maaster — Alternative title: Tulip Time • 1943 — King of the Cowboys — Judy Mason