Peggie Castle

Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde 'Peggie Castle' (qv) was actually spotted by a talent scout while she was lunching in a Beverly Hills restaurant. In her films she was usually somebody's "woman" rather than a girlfriend, and her career was confined to mostly "B"-grade action pictures, dramas or westerns: _Harem Girl (1952)_ (qv), _Wagons West (1952)_ (qv), _The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)_ (qv), _Jesse James' Women (1954)_ (qv), among others. She did, however, have good roles in such films as _Payment on Demand (1951)_ (qv) with 'Bette Davis' (qv), _99 River Street (1953)_ (qv) with 'John Payne' (qv), _I, the Jury (1953)_ (qv), _The White Orchid (1954)_ (qv), _Miracle in the Rain (1956)_ (qv) with 'Jane Wyman' (qv) and in _Seven Hills of Rome (1957)_ (qv) with 'Mario Lanza' (qv). After three seasons playing sexy femme lead Lily Merrill, the dance-hall hostess and romantic interest for steely-eyed Marshal Dan Troop in the TV western series _Lawman (1958)_ (qv), she left show business in 1962. She later developed an alcohol problem and died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1973 at age 45.::[email protected]