Peggy Wood

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Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892-March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

She is best known for her role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, she is best known for her appearance in The Sound of Music (1965).

Personal life

Wood was married and widowed twice before being remarried. At the age of 44, her first husband (poet/writer John Van Alstyne Weaver) died. In 1927, she gave birth to their son (David Weaver) at the age of 35. She second husband (William H. Walling, whom she wed in 1946) was an executive in the printing industry who died in 1973. They were married for 27 years. She was a devout Episcopalian and a member of the Episcopal Actors Guild.

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Career

Mary Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the niece of Eugene Wood, a writer, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator. She studied voice in France with soprano Emma Calvé. Wood was a founding member of the Actors' Equity Association, serving onstage for almost 50 years, beginning in the chorus and becoming well-known as a Broadway singer and actress. Wood made her stage debut in 1910 as part of the Naughty Marietta chorus. In 1917, she appeared in Maytime, in which she performed the song "Will You Remember." She appeared in several other musicals before playing Portia in a 1928 version of The Merchant of Venice. Wood appeared in musicals in London and New York from the late 1920s to the late 1930s. Nol Coward selected her to appear in his first London production of his wildly popular operetta Bitter Sweet.

Wood wrote "in collaboration with her father and with Samuel Merwin," according to a 1920 article. She was a member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Ruth Condomine, who was born in 1941, appeared in the premiere of Blithe Spirit in New York, where her husband is haunted by the ghost of his deceased first wife. Wood was not in any of the films. Jalna, A Star Is Born, Call It a Day, The Bride Wore Boots, Magnificent Doll, and Dream Girl are among her few film appearances. Marta Hansen, a British theatre actress and 1949 film I Remember Mama, appeared on the popular television show Mama from 1949 to 1957. When GM canceled the service, there was so much outrage that CBS brought it back on Sunday afternoon, this time as a filmed series. Since the network did not have all the affiliate station clearances that were required, the show was put into syndication, where it was a huge success. Producers filmed 26 episodes.

Wood appeared in episodes of Zane Grey Theatre and The Nurses after "Mama." In 509, she co-starred with comedian Imogene Coca on Broadway. Ruth Gates and herself appeared in the one-act play Opening Night, which was held in off-Broadway in October 1963. Fanny Ellis, a once-famous actress who braces for a performance, was the subject of the performance, which lasted 47 performances by Wood. On Mama, which starred Wood, Gates appeared on "Aunt Jenny."

Wood appeared in The Story of Ruth, a 1960 cinemaScope film, with Naomi Johnson as the mother-in-law of the title character, although she complained about the lack of verisimilitude in her own portrayal as a biblical matriarch. A "blonde, blue-eyed Jewess" is on display in the Jewess household. The Mother Abbess appeared on The Sound of Music (1965), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Best Supporting Actress award, as shown in the following video. She was ecstatic to be in the film, but she knew she would no longer be able to sing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain." Margery McKay dubbed her (for singing) at her age. Peggy especially loved McKay's singing voice because she sounded as Peggy did in her younger days, according to Marni Nixon, who appeared in the film as Sister Sophia. Wood appeared on One Life to Live as Dr. Kate Nolan in 1969 and continued to appear in One Life to Live as Dr. Kate Nolan, and he continued to appear on One Life to Live until the year's end.

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