In American film A Lady of Quality 1924
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Her father Conway Cartwright was a medical doctor employed by the Department of Immigration. The family had moved to BC c1907, possibly from Kingston ON where her father was born, and to Vancouver by 1912 where Peggy was born. The father retired in 1946 and died in 1952.
She apparently attended Crofton House School when it was based in the West End. The school was run by Miss Jesse Gordon, and its original location is now Gordon House.
She entered the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in the 1926-27 school year as a first year student at the age of 13. In the 1927 City Directory she was listed as a Dancer, working at the Belmont Cabaret, living at 2030 Stephens Street. This address matches the address noted in the 1926-27 Paint Box, and the address for Dr. Cartwright in the City Directory.
She performed a "feature number" at the 1927 Beaux Arts ball. Ed.: Mlle. Zinck was of the Studio of Dance Arts along with her mother. Cartwright was noted as becoming proficient in Russian dance. She enrolled at the art school for the 1927-28 school year as a second year student, her address noted in The Paint Box as 1800 Bayswater Street.
Cartwright did not complete her second year at the art school, because she moved to England with her mother at the end of 1927, where she performed on stage and in her later movie appearances. In February 1931, for example, she was the lead dancer in the Chelsea Follies at Victoria Palace, London, England, and was "at present dancing in the special cabaret of the famous Kit Kat Club in London, being the only member of her balllet to be given that honor." As well, "she is also an artist of considerable ability, and possesses an excellent singing voice". She was 18 at the time.
She moved to the United States around 1931 where she secretly married comedian Phil Baker, three months before the marriage was announced. The couple had four children. Divorced from Baker in 1941. The same year she was noted as entertaining troops in Canada. She married actor William "Bill" Walker in 1962. She died in 2001.
She is listed in Canadian Who's Who 1952. B.C. Vital Statistics has no listing for her birth in Vancouver. Given that her father was a Doctor, it may well have been a home birth, but there should still be a registration of the birth.
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Online biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cartwright
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
1 reference to Cartwright: CWW52
B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE father's death (refer to BCVS)
"In the Chelsea Follies"
Vancouver Province, February 22 1931
"Weds Musical Comedy Star"
Vancouver Province, February 19 1933
"Vancouver Girl, Now Famous Star, In Canada to Entertain for Troops"
Vancouver Province, March 1 1941