A Piece on Peggy O’Day
A brief nod today to silent movie actress Peggy O’Day (Genevieve Berte, 1900-1964). The daughter of professional baseball player Harry Berte, the actress was raised in Ohio, Kentucky, and Missouri, by her account under straitened circumstances. By her teens she had found work in Christie Comedies, on occasion as the Christie equivalent of Mack Sennett’s […]