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Peggy Wood (February 9, 1892 - March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film and television.

Wood spent nearly fifty years on the stage, beginning in the chorus and becoming known as a Broadway singer and star. She made her stage debut in 1910 in the chorus of Naughty Marietta. In 1917, in Maytime, she introduced the song ‘Will You Remember’. She starred in several other musicals before playing Portia in a 1928 production of The Merchant of Venice. In the late 1920's and 1930s, she played lead roles in musicals staged in London and New York. In 1941, in the New York premiere of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, she portrayed Ruth Condomine - whose husband’s deceased first wife returns as an irritating ghost. Coward had originally written the part for Wood in the London based production in 1929.

From 1949 to 1957, she played matriarch Marta Hansen, Mama, in the popular CBS television series Mama, based on the popular film I Remember Mama

Because of her involvement in the theatre, she appeared in very few films. Her final screen appearance was as the gentle Mother Abbess in the 1965 film The Sound of Music
, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

Peggy Wood also starred in the adaptation of the Biblical book of Ruth, "The Story of Ruth".

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