Margaret Kerry

Born as Peggy Lynch, in Los Angeles, California to John Riley and Mary Eleanor (Henderson) McCarty, she was quickly adopted. Her first role, at age 4, was as a fairy in the 1935 film A Midsummer Night\'s Dream directed by Max Reinhardt. She worked under her real name as a dancer and actor in three of the Our Gang comedy shorts. She attracted the attention of Eddie Cantor, who cast her in the role of his teenage daughter in the film If You Knew Susie. Cantor thought Lynch needed a more theatrical-sounding name to be more noticeable as an actor, so she officially became Margaret Kerry. She graduated from high school with honors while working on the film and would later graduate cum laude from Los Angeles City College.\n', 'Still a teenager, Kerry played the role of "Sharon" in the first network sitcoms, The Ruggles, on ABC-TV. The show\'s farewell episode at the end of its three-year run…