Mary Margaret Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph … See more

Her first autobiography How Young You Look was published by Farrar and Rinehart in 1941. The updated version Arts and Flowers appeared in 1963. She wrote a biography of actor John Drew, Jr. and a novel titled The Star Wagon as well as co-wrote the play Miss … See more

Wood died on March 18, 1978, at age 86, in Stamford, Connecticut, following a stroke. See more

• Peggy Wood at IMDb
• Peggy Wood at the Internet Broadway Database
• Peggy Wood at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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Wood was married and widowed twice. Her first husband (poet/writer John Van Alstyne Weaver) died at the age of 44. She gave birth to their son (David Weaver) in 1927 at the age of … See more

• Love O' Mike (1917)
• Maytime (1917)
• Buddies (1919)
• Bitter Sweet (1929)
• Old Acquaintance (1940) See more