After her death, Peggie was cremated and her ashes were scattered.
Peggie's measurements were 36-24 1/2-36 according to Celebrity Sleuth magazine.
Peggie used to return to her hometown of Appalachia VA at least once a year to visit her favorite aunt to whom she was very close.
Once stated in a magazine interview that she preferred rough and tough men over Caspar Milquetoasts. "[the latter] get the Hollyood horse laugh from me," said Peggie.
Peggie's mother died the same month (April 1973) as her fourth husband Arthur Morganstern.
Born in the same hometown as former Detroit Tigers outfielder Willie Horton, New York Times reporter Don Whitehead who also wrote The FBI Story, and 1964 Olympic sprinter Olan Cassell.
Once named the Ideal Hollywood Secretary by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce after portraying a secretary in the film Laughter in the Rain in which Peggie co-starred with Van Johnson and Jane Wyman.
Gossip columnist Walter Winchell once referred to Peggie as the poor man's Lana Turner.
In 1949, Peggie was voted Miss Classy Chassis by members of the United Automobile Workers Union from seven Western states.
Peggie sang in numerous episodes of Lawman although she'd never had singing lessons in her life and had only sung on-screen once before: in an episode of Cheyenne entitled Fury at Rio Hondo.
Dated war hero/actor Audie Murphy in the early 1950's.
A resident of Peggie's hometown of Appalachia, VA has recently written a two act play based on her life. Much of the dialogue in the play is taken from actual letters Peggie wrote to her favorite Aunt back home in Appalachia.
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