Photograph, Peggy Shannon
Object number2013.032.01
Date1933
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions10 x 8 3/4 in. (25.4 x 22.2 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionA photograph of Pine Bluff, Arkansas native Peggy Shannon. 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 photograph of actress and Arkansas native Peggy Shannon. In the photo Shannon is wearing a floor-length dress with a fur scarf, standing in what appears to be an opening between wooden walls draped with curtains. Shannon has her right hand on her hip and on her left hand on her scarf.
Status
Not on view
