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Why Peggy Lee didn't make it big in movies.

Reader Jim Noe had this comment after reading Ron Miller's column in our archives about the history of pop music stars as movie stars and the failure of singer Peggy Lee to have a major film career even though she earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in "Pete Kelly's Blues" (1955): As regards to why Peggy Lee never had a real film career, it was explained to me by someone who knew her rather well, that her lifelong manager had figured out that by keeping her on the road most of the year at clubs, she could make triple the money than by having a studio contract. This actually makes perfect sense considering she knew many extremely powerful people in show business who would have been happy to give her starring roles. She died in Bel Air rich. Ron's Reply: Hmmm. Somehow I doubt any manager would have considered a movie contract a drawback to a singer's appeal for live performances. Peggy Lee certainly had a marvelous career even with limited movie exposure, but she had so much acting talent I'm confident she might have "gone big" in movies if given the chance.

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