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  Peggy Cummins | Biography | MTV Movies
Blonde, exotically beautiful British actress Peggy Cummins was a stage performer from the age of 12.
Amidst a shower of publicity, Peggy was brought to Hollywood to star in Fox's film adaptation of the notorious Kathleen Windsor novel Forever Amber.
Cummins was "compensated" with antiseptic leading-lady roles in Fox's Green Grass of Wyoming (1947), Moss Rose (1947) and The Late George Apley (1947).
www.mtv.com /movies/person/14378/bio.jhtml   (148 words)

  
  Jim Cummins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jim Cummins is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto where he works on language development and literacy development of learners of English as an additional language.
Bilingual education al environments, Cummins tells us, should be mindful of a student's apparent ability to interact at a high cognitive level on the 'street' does not necessarily match their cognitive or communications ability in the 'class'.
Cummins insists that a more thorough assessment of the students' academic language abilities be performed before moving the student out of a 'sheltered' language development environment.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Jim_Cummins.html   (417 words)

  
 Probert Encyclopaedia: Actresses (Paula-Pg)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Primarily a theatre actress, she specialised in Shakespeare, though she did appear in a few films, and won an Academy Award for her role in the 1984 film 'A Passage To India'.
Peggy Dow (real name Margaret Varnadow) is an American actress.
Peggy Evans is an English dancer and actress.
www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CZPA.HTM   (455 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gun Crazy: Video: Peggy Cummins,John Dall,Berry Kroeger,Morris Carnovsky,Anabel Shaw,Harry Lewis,Nedrick ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It's a variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, but with a bizarre set-up: firearms enthusiasts John Dall and Peggy Cummins (neither of whom were ever this wild again) meet as sharpshooters in a carnival, then turn to crime.
Peggy Cummins is great as the evil Laurie Starr whose overpowering need for wealth and riches (without working for it) pushes weak-willed Bart into an action-packed life of crime.
As the years pass, an adult Bart, now played by Dall, is eventually released and enlists in the army (as good a place as any to satiate one's desire to be around guns), to which he returns home once his stint is up.
www.amazon.com /Gun-Crazy-Peggy-Cummins/dp/6301967933   (2510 words)

  
 Peggy Cummins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peggy Cummins (born December 18, 1925) is a British actress, best known for her role in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy, playing a sharp shooter who robs banks with her lover John Dall.
During the 1970's Cummins was very active in a national charity - Stars Organisation for Spastics raising money and chairing the management committeee of a Holiday centre for children with disablities in Sussex.
This article about a British actor or actress is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peggy_Cummins   (156 words)

  
 Gun Crazy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gun Crazy (originally released as Deadly is the Female) is a 1949 film noir film that is considered the forerunner to the film Bonnie and Clyde.
It stars Peggy Cummins, John Dall and Berry Kroeger.
The movie was written by MacKinlay Kantor and, in the credits, Millard Kaufman, who is in fact Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gun_Crazy   (349 words)

  
 Moss Rose (1947)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Barrymore, in fact, extends Cummins a matey welcome; even Medina tries to put aside her understandable jealousy.
Cummins finds the pastoral scene (`You'd expect to see a calendar pasted under it!' she exclaims) lives up to all her expectations.
Cummins is lovely and quite good as a Cockney diamond-in-the-rough, but leaves nothing like the impression she would two years later as Annie Laurie Starr in Gun Crazy.
us.imdb.com /Title?0037089   (511 words)

  
 MMI Movie Review: Gun Crazy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Three years after her ignominious firing from Otto Preminger's "Forever Amber" (reportedly because she looked like a little girl playing dress-up in period costumes), Cummins showed that she could be every bit as sexy as her replacement, Linda Darnell in a blonde wig.
In this beautifully directed saga by Joseph H. Lewis, Starr is a sideshow attraction in a carnival, sleeping with her yucky boss Packett (Barry Kroeger) and impressing small town crowds with her shooting expertise.
It just looks so real and the acting by Cummins and Dall is so artless that for a moment we forget we're watching a movie with actors, it's like we intruded on an actual hold-up.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/gun-crazy.html   (419 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Gun Crazy (1949)
She is deadly bad girl cool here, sporting a hip beret and oozing the kind of hypnotic wrong-side-of-the-tracks sex appeal that turns poor trying-to-be-good John Dall into her partner in crime.
While it serves as a catalyst or by-product fodder for the big climax, it is an obtrusively sloppy bit of writing in an otherwise classy noir film filled with colorful, fast-talking characters and snappy dialogue.
Cummins, however, is really so fully loaded with dangerous, lusty appeal in the role of Laurie that I think Lewis may have just figured no one would care.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6116   (951 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire | "Gun Crazy" review (1945) Joseph H. Lewis, Peggy Cummins, John Dall
John Dall and Peggy Cummins star as a pair of star-crossed lovers who both passionately love guns.
Bart (Dall) doesn't have it in him to kill but Laurie (Cummins) doesn't mind a bit.
Cummins never broke out of B-pictures, but she was a hugely potent force, sexy and powerful, with piercing eyes.
www.splicedonline.com /95andbefore/guncrazy_dvd.html   (477 words)

  
 Peggy Cummins - Rejected Movie Roles
Cummins began filming the title role of "Amber" in the lavish, racy costume epic from a bestselling novel but she was let go and replaced.
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www.notstarring.com /actors/cummins-peggy   (132 words)

  
 Our Lives at the Millennium - Theater -- now and then -- will always live on
Appearing in the play were Dorothy Snyder, Peggy Cummins, Dan Straub, who was then a Charlotte High School student, William Bourn, Louise Hallen, Laverne Schoenlaub and Virginia Scribner.
Peggy Cummins Cain, one of the original members of the Players, said Vasco Peeples, father of former state representative Vernon Peeples of Punta Gorda, offered them the use of the building rent-free.
Cummins Cain said the last play she did with the Players was "Steel Magnolias" in the early 1990s.
www.sun-herald.com /2000/life8.htm   (1595 words)

  
 Gun Crazy
But it's not an impediment to her performance, which is as raw and sensuous as they come.
Through much of the movie, Cummins redefines the relationship between sex and violence, eyes afire, mouth agape, bright gobbets of pure sex dripping from her open lips.
The ostensible moral of the story is that women will ruin your life, and the underlying message -- as put across in the very final scenes -- is that it may be better to betray lovers than friends.
www.deep-focus.com /flicker/guncrazy.html   (985 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Gun Crazy
His life springs into immediate focus the moment he sets sight on Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins, Night of the Demon), a British trick shot with nice gams and animal magnetism.
Peggy Cummins' Laurie isn't as aloof or inscrutable, at least not to the audience.
Both Peggy Cummins and John Dall give the performances of their careers.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/guncrazy.php   (2537 words)

  
 FilmJudge - Curse of the Demon - Night of the Demon (1957)
MacGinnis could not be better - this could have been an over-the-top 2 dimensional role, but he makes it thoroughly believable.
Peggy Cummins manages not to get left behind in what could have been a thankless love interest role.
The transfer reveals some film damage, but the picture is still very good -- so good in fact that you can see some fish lines used for special effects purposes -- it reminds me of the old warning that a CD can reveal limitations of the source tape -- we get some of that here.
www.filmjudge.ca /c/curseofthedemon.htm   (550 words)

  
 Indiana University Southeast Public Relations | News Archives
Depicting the stirring accounts of immigrant women, Louisville playwright Peggy Cummins will bring "The Immigrant Women Project" - a series of short plays based on the experiences of immigrants to the Kentuckiana area - to the Recital Hall of The Ogle Center at Indiana University Southeast.
Three years ago, Cummins, an adjunct professor of political science and history at IU Southeast and a professor of history at Jefferson Community College, received a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission and the National Education Association to conduct an oral history project on Louisville's immigrant community.
Cummins said that she discovered through her interviews the significance of the women's roles in the lives of all of the subjects.
www.ius.edu /publicrelations/TitlePastNews.cfm?doc_id=95   (267 words)

  
 Images - Film Noir
For both John Dall and Peggy Cummins, these are the performances of their careers.
The scene that best illustrates the total conviction in Dall and Cummins' performances is also one of the most ballyhooed scenes in the movie: a single take episode where Bart and Laurie rob a bank.
And while Cummins does indeed lead Bart into a life of crime, teasing him with sex and luring him with her proclamations of love, she eventually falls in love with him.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue02/infocus/guncrazy.htm   (1211 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Gun Crazy (1950): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The doomed romance between weak-willed sharpshooter Bart Tare (John Dall), who loves guns but lacks the courage to kill, and Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins), who is the aggressor in the relationship but can't shoot with the same grace and elan as Bart, can be read on several different levels, none of them especially healthy.
While the film satisfied the edicts of 1940s film censorship, lust has rarely seemed more vivid than between Bart and Annie; their relationship is based less on love than on pure animal instinct, and Lewis makes it seem both compelling and unwholesome.
You can't take your eyes off her, as she fanatically plunges down a road from which there is no return, taking the man she loves with her.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000244EWY   (1303 words)

  
 Hell Drivers - Sean Connery
Sean plays a small part in a star studded cast including Stanley Baker, Pat McGoohan, Peggy Cummins, David MCallum, William Hartnell, Dickie Attenborough and Herbert Lom.
Few saw the film the first time and when reissued in the sixties most of the cast were big in their own rights.
The story of a road haulage company whose crooked mananger forces aggressive competition on its lorry driving staff to the point where personality conflicts flare and murderous emotions grow.
sirseanconnery.tripod.com /hell.htm   (98 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Peggy Cummins : Biography
Amidst a shower of publicity, Peggy was brought to Hollywood to star in Fox's film adaptation of the notorious Kathleen Windsor novel Forever Amber.
Cummins was "compensated" with antiseptic leading-lady roles in Fox's Green Grass of Wyoming (1947), Moss Rose (1947) and The Late George Apley (1947).
Before returning to England in 1950, Peggy Cummins delivered an unforgettable performance as a psychopathic Bonnie Parker-type criminal in the film noir classic Gun Crazy (1949).
www.vh1.com /movies/person/14378/bio.jhtml   (192 words)

  
 BinaryFlix.com
After 7 years in the joint, Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider comes up with a brilliant plan for a million-dollar heist, which involves hiring a crew of professional thieves including a safecracker, a driver and a strong-arm…the only problem being that their fence is planning a double-cross with the help of his mistress Angela…
Gun Crazy is the pre-Bonnie and Clyde noir that puts Peggy Cummins and John Dall together as a dynamic duo of crime.
When the two meet at the carnival where she is putting on a sideshow showcasing her talent for pistols, they run off and get married only to later slip into a life of crime because of her unrest.
www.binaryflix.com /movie.asp?ID=2020   (991 words)

  
 Night of the Demon / Curse of the Demon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He remains unfazed when the professor’s daughter, Joanna (Peggy Cummins) uncovers a diary that suggests a more sinister explanation for her father’s death.
In his diary, Harrington describes a seemingly harmless encounter with Karswell in which he was passed a slip of paper containing runic symbols, along with Karswell’s calm prediction of the exact day and time of Harrington’s death.
The monster, if it existed, was to be conveyed to the audience through the reactions of the victims, and through crude drawings done by those who claimed to have seen it (hence the film ending with Peggy Cummin’s admonition, quoted above, that maybe it’s better not to know).
www.classicsondvd.com /ndemon.htm   (613 words)

  
 Old Louisville Journal, January 2005
Leah Stewart, Gary Kleier, Karen Keller, Madonna Wilson, and Peggy Cummins were elected to the 2005 OLIC Board of Directors at elections held in December.
Peggy Cummins was appointed the chair of the 2005 Holiday House Tour Committee by John Sistarenik on December 7, 2004.
Peggy has been an active member of the Holiday House Tour Committee for several years.
www.oldlouisville.com /newsletter/January2005   (2206 words)

  
 Movie Review
Rex Allerton (David Niven), a major Hollywood star (in terms of box-office popularity, he is second only to "Fang", the wonder dog) is haunted and hunted by importunate fans.
There he is persduaded by an international gambling sydicate to offer himself as first prize in a lottery.
The winner is Sally, a lovely young British fan (Peggy Cummins).
www.allwatchers.com /MovieRView.asp?BRID=57791   (113 words)

  
 Peggy Cummins Information
Peggy Cummins (born December 18 1925) is a British actress, best known for her role in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy, playing a sharp shooter who robs banks with her lover John Dall.
She moved to Hollywood in the mid-forties, making six films there, including Gun Crazy (1949), before returning to Britain in 1950.
During the 1970s Cummins was very active in a national charity, Stars Organisation for Spastics, raising money and chairing the management committee of a holiday centre for children with disabilities in Sussex.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Peggy_Cummins   (126 words)

  
 Cummins Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Susannah 47 SC Mary 32 SC Peggy 30 SC Frances 24 SC Sarah 22 SC Ann 20 SC Susannah 18 SC John 16 Farmer SC Reubin 14 SC 1860 Census Anderson Co., SC 4th Regiment Pg 193B
Notes for PEGGY CUMMINS: Either married or died between 1850 and 1860.
Flora K. George W. * Frances is the daughter of William and Sarah Cummins and is the niece of James's 1st wife Annie.
www.naturalbath.com /cumminsfamily.htm   (6398 words)

  
 Peggy Cummins - Moviefone
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movies.aol.com /celebrity/peggy-cummins/16172/main   (107 words)

  
 Whirlwind Missions Photo Gallery - powered by smugmug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These are my two parents: Al and Peggy Cummins.
These are shots of my mom Peggy and her three Aunts, Ophelia, Anna Bel...
My Aunt Betty Cummins went to be with the Lord on February 16th, 2004.
whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com /Family   (371 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fourteen-year-old Bart Tare is sent to reform school for stealing a gun.
Back home after a hitch in the army, the adult Bart (John Dall) falls for carnival sharpshooter Laurie (Peggy Cummins) and joins the show.
It revels in Bart and Laurie's perverse psychology and the nihilistic aspects of their escapades, and Lewis made the most of his leads, playing off Dall's air of ambiguous sexuality and mental instability (as did Alfred Hitchcock in ROPE) and the Welsh-born Cummins' unbridled carnality.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=29269   (330 words)

  
 Curse of the Demon/Night of the Demon
When Professor Harrington (Maurice Denham), who has been trying to debunk the magic and mysticism of Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis), is horribly and mysteriously murdered, an inquiry into his death begins.
Skeptical psychologist John Holden (Dana Andrews in a nicely gruff performance) and Harrington’s not-so-skeptical niece Joanna (Peggy Cummins) grudgingly team up for an investigation.
The film is based on the story “Casting the Runes,” and it’s revealed that anyone who accepts a slip of paper with Runic symbols on it (whether wittingly or not) is doomed to die within an allotted time (not dissimilar to the video curse in the Ring films half a century later).
www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/curse_of_the_demon.html   (581 words)

  
 World Famous Comics: Gun Crazy
It's a variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, but with a bizarre set-up: firearms enthusiasts John Dall and Peggy Cummins (neither of whom were ever this wild again) meet as sharpshooters in a carnival, then turn to crime.
The direction, by Joseph H. Lewis, is like a spray of hot lead from a gun barrel, capped by an amazing sequence--shot in one long take--of a bank robbery seen from the backseat of the getaway car.
After finishing school he does four years in the army as a shooting instructor and then finally comes back to his hometown and sees his old friends.
www.worldfamouscomics.com /shopping/item-B000244EWY.shtml   (1062 words)

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