Peggy Montgomery Movies

Based upon Arthur Kober’s play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars Ginger Rogers as Teddy Shaw, a typist who goes to a summer camp for a little rest and relaxation. She’s also getting away from Emil (Jack Carson), whose interest in Teddy is no longer returned. Arriving at Camp Kare-Free, she’s offered a ride by Chick (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), who works at the camp as a waiter. Unfortunately, they get off to a bumpy start when Chick spills her suitcase and an argument ensues. Once at camp, she makes friends with Fay (Peggy Conklin), Miriam (Lucille Ball) and Henrietta(Eve Arden). Chick apologizes to Teddy, and over the next six days their relationship blossoms, concurrently with that of Miriam and another guest, Buzzy. However, when Chick makes an improper advance during her last night at the camp, Teddy gets angry and leaves him. She dances with Buzzy to make Chick jealous and makes sure she is seen entering Buzzy’s cabin. She takes steps to see that nothing happens and leaves unscathed the next morning, but not before causing trouble between Buzzy and Miriam. Emil has arrived and plans to bring her home after breakfast. While they are eating, Emil proposes to Teddy. Both Chick and Miriam overhear this proposal, after which Miriam loudly comments that Teddy stayed overnight with Buzzy. In the ensuing confusion, Chick decks both Buzzy and Emil, and offers his own proposal to Teddy – which she happily accepts. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide

Paramount's Eight Girls in a Boat was a remake of the 1932 German film of the same name. Impregnated by medical student David Perrin (Douglass Montgomery), European schoolgirl Christa Storm (Dorothy Wilson) contemplates killing herself. Wisely, she chooses instead to explain her plight to her sympathetic teacher Hanna (Kay Johnson), who arranges a marriage for the girl despite the protests of her wealthy father (Walter Connolly). Before this happens, however, Christa's seven best friends agree to mutually adopt the girl's baby, and are sorely put out when she opts for matrimony. Many cynical reviewers presumed that Eight Girls in a Boat was merely an excuse to show off an octet of well-developed ingenues in shorts, tight blouses and bathing suits. Perhaps it was, but few filmgoers complained back in 1934. The film was one of the few made by starlet Barbara Barondess before she forsook acting for a lucrative career as a Hollywood interior decorator. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Directed and written by veteran action specialist J.P. McGowan, this minor Western featured stuntman Yakima Canutt as a cowboy saving a pretty ranch owner (Peggy Montgomery) from a gang of cattle rustlers. Canutt, who had starred in several B-Western series in the late '20s, found his career waning after the changeover to sound and would increasingly concentrate on stunt work. One of three Canutt Westerns released in 1929 by poverty row company Bell Prod., Bad Men's Money featured a veteran cast that also included Lafe McKee, as the heroine's father, John Lowell Russell, Cliff Lyons, Charles "Slim" Whitaker, Bud Osborne and director McGowan himself. The Peggy Montgomery appearing in this and other Westerns at the time was not related, as has previously been asserted, to child star Baby Peggy Montgomery. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Stoic silent-screen cowboy Bob Custer comes to the aid of a female rancher (Peggy Montgomery), who is about to be cheated by a gang of horse thieves masquerading as an army purchasing detachment in this minor oater written by supporting player Mack V. Wright. An old hand at such nonsense, Australian director J.P. McGowan had begun his American screen career directing his wife Helen Holmes in the seemingly endless railroad serial The Hazards of Helen (1914-1917). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Veteran action producer-director-actor J.P. McGowan committed this little Western indiscretion starring lethargic silent cowboy Bob Custer as Texas Collins, an adventurer who, when chased out of town, joins a gang of cattle rustlers. Out performing a bit of recognizance for the gang, Texas happens upon pretty Molly Carson (Peggy Montgomery), who has crashed her car. The girl is brought to the gang's base camp where gang leader "The Tiger" (McGowan) becomes a little too friendly. Texas, who has fallen for Molly, takes umbrage and ultimately brings the gang to justice. The Silent Trail was produced by McGowan's El Dorado company for release by Syndicate Film Exchange, all of which basically meant that the film was distributed to smaller venues only. Custer, who had recently headed his own production unit at FBO, saw his fortunes decline precipitously with the coming of sound. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Stalwart western hero Tom Tyler is once again falsely accused of a crime in this well-made silent oater from FBO. The sheriff has been killed, and everything points to Tyler as the culprit. Discovering the killer to be saloon-owner Harry Woods, Tyler pretends to be sympathetic but is actually gathering evidence. He is aided in his quest by 12-year-old Red Lennox and grizzled sidekick Alfred Hewston. Interestingly, the roles played by Lennox and Hewston were taken over by Buzz Barton and Frank Rice in FBO's popular "Red Hepner" series. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Prisoners of the Storm was based on the rugged James Oliver Curwood yarn The Quest of Joan. When two Canadian prospectors strike gold, they make plans to stake a mutual claim at a faraway trading post. One of the prospectors is murdered en route to the post, and that's when Mountie Walter McGrail enters the picture. Following orders, he sets out to arrest the surviving prospector on suspicion of murder. But McGrail's resolve weakens when the prospector's pretty daughter Peggy Montgomery (former child star "Baby Peggy") nurses him back to health when he's injured in a blinding snowstorm. Certain by now that Montgomery's father is innocent, McGrail dedicates himself to tracking down the real killer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Dark-haired, pleasant-looking Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch. Landis' disgraced Denny O'Brien falls in love with the rancher's pretty daughter, Peggy Montgomery, proving himself worthy of her attention only after saving her from the ubiquitous crooked foreman (Ernest Hilliard). Ostensibly based on an original screenplay penned by Mary Eunice McCarthy, the plot of The Fighting Failure was almost identical to that of The Wildcat, another 1926 release directed by Harry Fraser and written for the screen by David M. Findlay and Miller Easton. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Baby Peggy, a popular child star of the 1920s who grew up to become film historian Peggy Carey, who stars in The Law Forbids. This time around, little-miss-fix-it Carey prevents her mother (Elinor Fair) from making a big mistake by divorcing Daddy (Robert Remsen). Separated from her husband, mother packs Peggy off to the family's country estate. The precocious tyke accidentally-on-purpose gets lost, reuniting her wandering parents. Based on a story by Bernard McConville, The Law Forbids concludes with a tear-stained courtroom scene. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide