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By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate, lifelike artificial legs. [3] Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, [3] according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. [4]
Millicent Lilian 'Peg' Entwistle (5 February 1908 – 16 September 1932) was a British stage and screen actress. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions.
Eddie “Peg” or “Peg Leg” Lightfoot was born Edward Rodgers on January 14, 1895, in Memphis, Tennessee to a Victoria Dickerson (b.1878) and an unnamed father. . Victoria married a Burl Lightfoot (b.1868) sometime prior to 1900 and Burl appears to have adopted Edward between 1900 and 1910 as his legal name changed to “Eddie Lightfoot” in that year's census (which also states an ...
The Windsor family home, the wedding reception restaurant, the Peg Leg Pub pool hall, and the fishing docks were also filmed in Stonington Borough. The hitchhiking incident takes place on North Main Street in Stonington Town. The Araújo home is in Pawcatuck, Connecticut; the lobster business and the wedding church are in Noank, Connecticut.
Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates: October 11, 1907 December 6, 1998 American Rhythm tap dancer with only one leg. [85] Warner Baxter: March 29, 1889 May 7, 1951 American Actor. Later won the 1929 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as the Cisco Kid in the film In Old Arizona. [86] Nora Bayes: October 8, 1880 June 19, 1928 American
A principal supporting character is "J.D." (played by William Forsythe), a non-Mexican member who has an artificial leg. Edward James Olmos (the movie's writer/director/star) attempted to visit Morgan in hopes that he would gain his approval for the movie. Morgan refused to see him, and filed a lawsuit against Olmos and Universal Studios ...
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Daniel has opened a newspaper in Candleford and is on the lookout for a big story. So when old Peg Leg, a Crimean War veteran, arrives for his annual visit to the Timmins', and Daniel learns he has received no war pension, he starts a newspaper campaign against this injustice. But just as Peg Leg's plight looks set to become a national cause ...