Peggy Wood

B. Margaret Wood 9 February 1892 Brooklyn New York City New York USA D. 18 March 1978 Stamford Connecticut USA. After Studying Singing With Operatic Soprano Emma Calvé Wood Began Singing In The Chorus Of Musical Comedies Before Gradually Building Up To Small Roles. Her Broadway Debut Was In Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta 1910 Then Appeared In Several Other Shows Before Making Her Breakthrough As Ottilie In Maytime 1917 In Which The Duet She Sang With Charles Purcell Sigmund Romberg’s ‘Will You Remember?’ Became A Huge Hit And Is Often Known By It First Line ‘Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart!’ . Wood’s Sparkling Stage Presence Brought Her A Steady Flow Of Good Parts In Plays And Musical Comedies Not Only On Broadway But Also In London’s West End. Best Known Of All Her London Roles Was When She Played Sarah Millick In Noël Coward’s Bitter Sweet 1929 . Her Big Songs Were ‘Zigeuner’ And ‘The Bitter Sweet Waltz’ Another Song Known Often By Its First Line ‘I’ll See You Again’ . On Broadway Again She Was In The Original American Cast Of Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
Later Now Concentrating On Non-Musical Roles Wood Played The Mother In The Very Popular American Television Drama Series Mama Aka I Remember Mama 1949-57 . Wood Had Made Films From 1919 Onwards Including Wonder Of Women 1929 The Right To Live 1935 Jalna 1935 From Mazo De La Roche’s Bestselling Novel A Star Is Born 1937 The Housekeeper’s Daughter 1939 Magnificent Doll 1946 Which Starred Ginger Rogers As First Lady Dolly Madison Dream Girl 1948 Starring Betty Hutton And The Story Of Ruth 1960 . Only In The Last Of These Was Wood’s Role Anything Other Than Minor But She Made Up For This Relative Anonymity With Her Last Screen Role. Although Only On Screen For A Short Time Her Performance As Mother Superior In The Film Version Of Richard Rodgers And Oscar Hammerstein II’s The Sound Of Music 1965 Brought Her An Oscar Nomination Even Though Her Singing On The Film’s Soundtrack Of ‘Climb Ev’ry Mountain’ Was Dubbed By Margery McKay. read less