Peggy Feury (born Margaret Feury; June 30, 1924 â€" November 20, 1985)
was an American actress on Broadway, in films, and on television. She
became a highly regarded acting teacher in New York and then in Los
Angeles. Throughout her career, she taught many notable students.Feury
was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her father was Richard Feury; her
mother, born in Ireland, was also Margaret Feury; and her younger
sister was Elinor Feury. She graduated from Barnard College, then
attended the Yale School of Drama, later studying with Lee Strasberg
at the Actors Studio, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood
Playhouse.While at Yale, Feury met and then married her first husband,
playwright Louis S. Peterson.[a] Less than a decade later, following
their divorce and Feury's remarriage, Peterson's semi-autobiographical
play Entertain a Ghost was produced, chronicling a deteriorating
marriage between a fictional playwright and actress with obvious
parallels to Peterson and Feury. The play received from the Village
Voice a positive and detailed review that expressed the feeling that
the production should have run longer. It described it as "a daring
and deeply exploratory new play, the best damned failure I've seen in
years".As Margaret Feury she appeared on Broadway in Me and Molly;
Sunday Breakfast (staged by noted acting teacher Stella Adler); Enter
Laughing; Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield, Mildred Dunnock, and Karl
Malden, directed by Lee Strasberg; The Grass Harp, directed by Actors
Studio co-founder Robert Lewis; The Lady of the Camellias, directed by
Franco Zeffirelli, Chekov's Three Sisters, directed by Strasberg (with
Feury eventually replacing Geraldine Page as Olga), and The Turn of
the Screw. Off-Broadway she starred in Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit
at the Provincetown Playhouse.
was an American actress on Broadway, in films, and on television. She
became a highly regarded acting teacher in New York and then in Los
Angeles. Throughout her career, she taught many notable students.Feury
was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her father was Richard Feury; her
mother, born in Ireland, was also Margaret Feury; and her younger
sister was Elinor Feury. She graduated from Barnard College, then
attended the Yale School of Drama, later studying with Lee Strasberg
at the Actors Studio, and with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood
Playhouse.While at Yale, Feury met and then married her first husband,
playwright Louis S. Peterson.[a] Less than a decade later, following
their divorce and Feury's remarriage, Peterson's semi-autobiographical
play Entertain a Ghost was produced, chronicling a deteriorating
marriage between a fictional playwright and actress with obvious
parallels to Peterson and Feury. The play received from the Village
Voice a positive and detailed review that expressed the feeling that
the production should have run longer. It described it as "a daring
and deeply exploratory new play, the best damned failure I've seen in
years".As Margaret Feury she appeared on Broadway in Me and Molly;
Sunday Breakfast (staged by noted acting teacher Stella Adler); Enter
Laughing; Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield, Mildred Dunnock, and Karl
Malden, directed by Lee Strasberg; The Grass Harp, directed by Actors
Studio co-founder Robert Lewis; The Lady of the Camellias, directed by
Franco Zeffirelli, Chekov's Three Sisters, directed by Strasberg (with
Feury eventually replacing Geraldine Page as Olga), and The Turn of
the Screw. Off-Broadway she starred in Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit
at the Provincetown Playhouse.
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