Peggy Ann Garner

 Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 – October 16, 1984) was an American actress.

As a child actress, Garner had her first film role in 1938. At the 18th Academy Awards, Garner won the Academy Juvenile Award, recognizing her body of contributions to film in 1945, particularly in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Junior Miss. Featured parts in such films as Black Widow (1954) did not help to establish her in mature film roles, although she progressed to theatrical work and she made acting appearances on television as an adult. In 1961 she starred next to Richard Boone in the episode Dream Girl on Have Gun Will Travel. After a decade away from work in feature films, she appeared as the pregnant aunt in the critically acclaimed film, A Wedding (1978), directed by Robert Altman, whom she had worked with on television in the early 1960s. Her final screen performance was a small part in a made-for-television feature This Year's Blonde (1980). Garner was married three times, her second marriage was to actor Albert Salmi. They had one child together, though the marriage would end in divorce. In 1984, at age 52, Garner died from pancreatic cancer in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Los Angeles. She was cremated, and the ashes kept with family. Her only child, Catherine Ann Salmi, died of heart disease on May 17 1995. She was 38 years old.