Peggy Thompson

Birth : 1907-11-09, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 1987-11-05

History

Margaret "Peg" McCray (also known as Peggy Thompson, Peggy or Peg Fenwick and Peg Padover; November 9, 1907 – November 5, 1987) was an American screenwriter and playwright who worked in the U.S. and French film industries, best known for writing the scripts for Whirlpool of Desire and All That Heaven Allows Description above from the Wikipedia article Peggy Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

All That Heaven Allows

Screenplay

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

King of the Newsboys

Writer

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

Midshipman Easy

Writer

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.

Whirlpool

Writer

The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable of any physical love. She is slowly drawn into a short-lived affair with a handsome athlete, Robert Vanier. When the husband learns of the affair, he commits suicide. But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away.