Peggy Feury's Life Story

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Peggy Feury, a female actress on Broadway, on television, and in films, was born on June 20, 1924, in Jersey city of New Jersey. Peggy’s real name is Margaret Traylor. Feury’s father’s name is Richard feury and her mother’s names is Margaret Feury. Peggy had only one sibling and that was her younger sister Elinor Feury. As peggy graduated from high school, she went to the Barnard college located in New York city. Soon after she graduated Barnard, Peggy then attended the Yale school of drama. Feury studied with Lee Strasburg at the actor studio and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. While studying at Yale, Feury met and later on married her first husband, Louis S. Peterson. Feury ,soon after college, decided to become an acting

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