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While she was at the school in Gulfport a couple of years earlier, he had been stationed at Keesler Air Force Base at nearby Biloxi, and they knew some of the same people.They began talking. NEW YORK (AP) — Peggy Cummins, a Welsh-born stage and film actress who worked just a few years in Hollywood but left behind an indelible performance as the lethal, beret-wearing robber in the noir classic "Gun Crazy," has died at age 92. You must be a full digital subscriber to read this article. Thank goodness that didn’t happen.”After starting out in multiple film-noir crime films, Dow found herself cast in one of Hollywood’s best-known comedies: 1950’s “Harvey,” in which Jimmy Stewart played Elwood P. Dowd, a fellow who believes his best friend is a 6-foot white rabbit named Harvey.Helmerich played Miss Kelly, a nurse at a sanitarium where Dowd’s family tries to admit him, and she had several scenes with Stewart, who was nominated for a best-actor Oscar for the role.“He was just such a help to the young actors, and he was such a sweet guy, and he was one of the most modest guys,” she said of Stewart. | Peggy Cummins was an Irish actress, appearing in several films between 1940 and 1961. Dowd was born the youngest of five children in Washington, D.C. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa WorldA poster of the movie "Bright Victory" is signed by one of its stars, Peggy Helmerich. It would mean several weeks of filming in the desert of Nevada.“William Holden was to play a test pilot (the film, “Toward the Unknown,” was released in 1956), and they told me, ‘We’ll help you, you can have a nanny on the set,’ ” Helmerich recalled.“Walt wanted me to come out and meet with them, to never (have any regrets), and I just said I’m sorry, but no thank you.”She remembers her decision to leave Hollywood this way:“I had worked on a movie with Dick Powell (“You Never Can Tell,” 1951), and he said ‘Why would you want to stay in this business?’ I thought he was crazy, and I told him, the same reason as you: I’m an actor.
Helmerich will be doing a Q&A after a screening of her movie Bright Victory at the cinema.

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Peggy Pope, who played a secretary in the 1980 movie 9 to 5, appeared in dozens of TV series and acted on Broadway, has died. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa WorldA poster of the movie "Bright Victory" is signed by one of its stars, Peggy Helmerich. He asked me to come up with five happy married couples in Hollywood that we knew, and we had a hard time doing it.”So she agreed to marry Walt (“I loved him, and I was not going to let him go back to working on an oil well without me telling him that”), and as she says, “I started to see things differently.”She came to Tulsa, and she started a family.
Peggy O’Dowd is a character in William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1847/48 classic, Vanity Fair. He was wonderful.”The movie was a hit and remains a classic 65 years later. #1 TULSA PAINTERS-Int/Ext, Cabinets, Textures, Wallpaper Removal, Carpentry, Decks, Fences, Affordable. Dowd graduated from (now defunct) Immaculata High School in 1969. Helmerich will be doing a Q-and-A after a screening of her movie "Bright Victory" at the cinema. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa WorldPeggy Dow (Helmerich) on the cover of LIFE magazine on Aug. 7, 1950. But the role for which she will always be best-known was one she almost turned down.The role in “Harvey” was a co-starring part, and she had the opportunity to be the female lead in a film with actor Van Heflin, she said. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa WorldPeggy Helmerich with a poster of her movie Bright Victory that is on display at Circle Cinema. Helmerich will be doing a Q-and-A after a screening of her movie “Bright Victory” at the cinema. I reach him, and I thought he was going to jump through the phone the way that he told me he’d been so sad not hearing from me.”But when she asked if he would be her escort, he gave an ultimatum: I’ll come if you’ll agree to marry me.“I finally gave in, and I said, ‘Oh, OK. OK, darn it, I will,” she said, chuckling.They were married Nov. 23, 1951, in Athens, Tennessee, in a church “lighted entirely by hundreds of white tapers and decorated with gardenias in garlands, baskets and vases,” according to a Tulsa World report.Helmerich’s last film as Peggy Dow was “I Want You,” a wartime drama in which she acted opposite Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire and Farley Granger in a film for studio executive Samuel Goldwyn, who had asked Universal to loan Dow out for the film.It was her second film for director Mark Robson (“Peyton Place”), whom Helmerich refers to as “one of my mentors” and who would direct films for another three decades.Would Helmerich have continued to work with the two-time Oscar-nominated director and other esteemed filmmakers? Walter Helmerich III and Mrs. Peggy Dow Helmerich on their wedding day in 1951Peggy Helmerich sits next to posters from some of her movies, including “Harvey” and “Bright Victory,” that are on display at Circle Cinema.

Helmerich will be doing a Q&A after a screening of her movie Bright Victory at the cinema. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa WorldPeggy Helmerich showed one of her best films, “Bright Victory,” from 1951 at Circle Cinema in 2015 and told audiences of her time in Hollywood.