{{Short description|American actress (1896–1966)}} {{Infobox person | name = Peggy Allenby | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Eleanor Byrne Fox | birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|2|1}} | birth_place = New York City, NY | death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|3|23|1896|2|1}} | death_place = New York City, NY | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Robert Armstrong|1920|1925|reason=divorced}} * {{marriage|John McGovern|1932}} }} | children = 2 }}
'''Peggy Allenby''' (February 1, 1896 – March 23, 1966) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actress.
==Early life== Allenby was born Eleanor Byrne Fox in New York City and attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart.<ref name=np>{{cite news| title=Mother Role| newspaper=The Herald-Palladium| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2030440/allenbymother_role| date=October 1, 1947| page=9| via=Newspapers.com| accessdate=March 20, 2015}}</ref> She entered theatrical work in Nashville.<ref name=pph>{{cite news| title=Deertrees Leading Lady 'Names' Son, Daughter For Her Radio Programs| newspaper=Portland Press Herald| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2030764/allenbychilden/| date=July 29, 1949| page=7| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=March 20, 2015}}</ref>
==Career==
===Television=== Allenby may be best known for her role as "Mattie Lane Grimsley" on the CBS-TV soap opera ''Edge of Night''. Peggy Allenby was in the show's cast from 1956 to 1966. She also appeared on ''Cosmopolitan Theater'' (1951), ''The Philco Television Playhouse'' (1951), ''First Love'' (1954), ''Studio One'' (1954) and ''The United States Steel Hour'' (1959).
===Radio=== From 1930 to 1950, her voice was a part of such radio broadcasts as ''Second Husband'', ''Young Doctor Malone'', ''David Harum'' and ''Road of Life''.<ref>{{cite news| title='By Kathleen Norris' Series Features Peggy Allenby| newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2030686/allenbyby_kathleen_norris/| date=September 20, 1941| page=25| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=March 20, 2015}}</ref> She had the role of Mrs. Brown, mother of the title character on the comedy serial ''Claudia'', based on the character created by author Rose Franken,<ref name=np/> and she played the mother in ''The Nichols Family''.<ref>{{cite news| last1=Lesser| first1=Jerry| title=Radio Talent: New York| url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/40s/1942/Billboard%201942-02-14.pdf| access-date=29 March 2015| magazine=Billboard| date=February 14, 1942| page=7}}</ref> Allenby had the title role in ''Phyl Coe Radio Mysteries''.<ref>{{cite news| title=Bits Of Gossip On The Ether ..| newspaper=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal| url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2278206/allenby_phyl_coe_mysteries/| date=September 12, 1937| page=28| via=Newspapers.com| access-date=April 23, 2015}}</ref>
===Theater=== In 1948, she appeared in ''The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden'' on Broadway.<ref>{{cite news| title='The Happy Journey'; New Stages Produces Thornton Wilder's One-Act Idyll as Curtain Raiser| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/03/21/archives/the-happy-journey-new-stages-produces-thornton-wilders-oneact-idyll.html| last=Atkinson| first=Brooks| author-link=Brooks Atkinson| newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 21, 1948| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Soon after, she replaced Mildred Dunnock, as Willy Loman's wife, in the 1949 production of ''Death of a Salesman''.<ref>{{cite web| title=Death of a Salesman: Replacements| url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/death-of-a-salesman-2111#Replacements| website=Internet Broadway Database| access-date=December 7, 2022}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Allenby was married to actors John McGovern and Robert Armstrong. Her marriage with John McGovern produced two children, John Jr. and Eleanor.<ref name=pph/> She died in 1966 in Park West Hospital after a short illness, aged 70.<ref>{{cite news| title=Peggy Allenby, 65, of Edge of Night| newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 25, 1966| page=41| access-date=December 7, 2022| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/03/25/archives/peggy-allenby-65-of-edge-of-night.html| url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0021185}} *{{IBDB name}} *[http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=140681 Peggy Allenby](NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allenby, Peggy}} Category:Actresses from New York City Category:American radio actresses Category:American silent film actresses Category:American soap opera actresses Category:American television actresses Category:American stage actresses Category:20th-century American actresses Category:1896 births Category:1966 deaths