by Ralph J. Gleason San Francisco – “Retire? I should say not!” declared Peggy Lee, in town for a three-week date in the Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel. Debunking retirement rumors, Peggy said, “That was a bad week. You have weeks like that along with the good ones.” “When[…]

by Ralph J. Gleason Don’t for a moment think those stories are true you’ve heard about Peggy Lee wanting to retire from singing and just write songs. The blonde Decca record star emphatically denies it. This week at the Fairmont Hotel, where she opened Tuesday for a three-week engagement at[…]

by Earl Wilson Look who used to be a “hired girl” on a farm in North Dakota…Peggy Lee! I was once a “hired man” or “hired hand” on a farm in Ohio – so I know about such things. In the big cities, they would call a hired girl a[…]

by Eckert Goodman Sometime in the unforeseeable future, Peggy Lee may put in an eight-hour stint and feel that she’s done a day’s work. But, judging from the actress-singer-songwriter-artist’s current behavior, that will be a banner day. Directors know that a session in front of the cameras can be as[…]

by Don Freeman La Jolla, California – It seems that Peggy Lee, always a very capable singer, has developed into an extraordinarily appealing entertainer. And an assist for the transformation should go to a versatile fellow named Mel Ferrer, an actor, also a director, a producer, guiding hand at La[…]

by Muriel Fischer Peggy Lee makes a career of careers. The pretty, blond North Dakota lass, who spent her growing-up years acquiring a working knowledge of farms and railroads, then skipped to fame as a singer and later cut another niche as lyricist, now makes her debut as an actress.[…]