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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 8, 2020 13:27:59 GMT
Peggy Ann Garner was one of the sad cases of a child actress who retained her skills but not her looks. Never a child beauty, her little waif face and her ability to speak truth to power made her child performances very special. She had at least one good part as an adult , in BLACK WIDOW as the murder victim. She was as good as she was in child roles, feisty and straight forward, but she was very ordinary looking. How sad is it that failure to meet the extreme standards of female beauty in Hollywood ended careers. Gee, I thought she bloomed rather well into a young adult: a sunny, All-American-Girl appearance, somewhere between Janet Leigh and Sandra Dee (below in the aforementioned Black Widow), certainly prettier than she was as a child. But, y'know, each to our own tastes.  I happened to catch one of her teenage performances recently, Bomba the Jungle Boy, in which her character fits your word perfectly: feisty.  In one cutely suggestive scene, her clothes have become damaged and, indicating Bomba's leopardskin garment, asks, "Do you have something like that I can put on?" The obliging but socially unsophisticated Bomba immediately begins to undo his own loincloth!
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