Photograph, Publicity - Peggy Shannon
Object number2012.189.01
Date1931
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionPress photograph of Peggy Shannon and Charles Starrett. Shannon was born in Pine Bluff.Peggy Shannon was born Winona Sammon in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1907. She was hired as a chorus girl by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1923 while visiting her aunt in New York. The following year she was cast in Ziegfeld Follies. She later appeared on both stage and screen. In 1927 while on Broadway, she was spotted by B.P. Schulberg, production head of Paramount Pictures, and was offered a contract. When she arrived in Hollywood, she was hailed as the next “It Girl,” replacing the former, Clara Bow. She made over thirty films, appearing in her last role in 1940. Shannon died in 1941.
Black and white publicity photograph of Arkansas native Peggy Shannon and Charles Starrett. They are seated at a dinner table and she is leaning down to pick up a dropped knife.
Status
Not on view
