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Peg La Centra

Peg La Centra

Actor

Born April 10, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died June 1, 1996

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Biography

Peg LaCentra, born in 1910, grew up in Boston. She very briefly attended the New England Conservatory of Music, studying piano. She also attended the Katharine Gibbs Finishing School and the Fenway Academy of Dramatic Art, as her early goal was to become an actress. Before moving to New York in 1931, she was an announcer at Boston radio station WNAC. Once she hit New York, she soon joined NBC as a singer and actress.

While singing with Dick McDonough's Orchestra on "The Mell-O-Roll Ice Cream Show," in 1936, Peg met Artie Shaw, then a sideman with McDonough. Shaw told her he was organizing his own orchestra and needed a singer. She joined Shaw in the summer of 1936, performing at the Lexington Hotel, the Paramount Theater in New York and on recordings. After Shaw's band broke up about a year later, she sang on radio with Benny Goodman. She and Goodman did not get along, and she quickly rejoined Artie Shaw when he formed another orchestra.

Although a good singer, Peg recorded very little; her recording output is confined to the 1930s. She recorded under her own name and, in addition to Shaw, with the orchestras of Victor Young and Johnny Green. In 1939, she was given her own program on NBC, "The Peg LaCentra Show."

She later appeared in a number of films and episodic TV, particularly dubbing non-singing actresses. The most famous of these are Susan Hayward in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) and Ida Lupino in The Man I Love (1946) and Escape Me Never (1947). She appeared (as herself) singing in the background of Joan Crawford's Humoresque (1946).

In 1939, Peg married radio actor Paul Stewart, an original member of Orson Welles' "Mercury Theater of the Air." They remained married until his death in 1986. She passed away of a heart attack on June 1, 1996, at her home in Los Angeles. She was 86.

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Filmography

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Year

Ada Feature Film1961Maude Penmore

Dr. Kildare Poster

Dr. Kildare TV Series1961Loretta Anderson

Hazel TV Series1961Edith Stone

Michael Shayne Poster

Michael Shayne TV Series1960Birdie Summers

The Chevy Mystery Show Poster

The Chevy Mystery Show TV Series1960Mrs. Denham

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Poster

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Feature Film1960Edna Harper

Bourbon Street Beat Poster

Bourbon Street Beat TV Series1959Mrs. Donner

The DuPont Show with June Allyson Poster

The DuPont Show with June Allyson TV Series1959Newswoman

M Squad TV Series1957Mrs. Lowell

Suspicion Poster

Suspicion TV Series1957Mariette

The Marge and Gower Champion Show TV Series1957Amanda

Crime of Passion Poster

Crime of Passion Feature Film1956Mrs. James

Dr. Christian Poster

Dr. Christian TV Series19561 episode, 1956

Emergency Hospital Poster

Emergency Hospital Feature Film1956Nurse Fran Richards

Conrad Nagel Theater Poster

Conrad Nagel Theater TV Series1955Martha Marne

Crossroads Poster

Crossroads TV Series19551 episode, 1956

The 20th Century-Fox Hour Poster

The 20th Century-Fox Hour TV Series1955Della

The Danny Thomas Show Poster

The Danny Thomas Show TV Series1953Mrs. Haynes

Schlitz Playhouse Poster

Schlitz Playhouse TV Series1951Grace

Big Town Poster

Big Town TV Series19501 episode, 1955

Escape Me Never Poster

Escape Me Never Feature Film1947Gemma Smith

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman Poster

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman Feature Film1947Angie's Singing Voice

Cowboy Blues Poster

Cowboy Blues Feature Film1946Lucy

Humoresque Poster

Humoresque Feature Film1946Night Club singer

The Man I Love Poster

The Man I Love Feature Film1946Petey Brown

Rooftop Frolics Short Film1937Peg La Centra - Singer

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