Editing Peggy Cass (section)

==Stage and film==
Cass made her [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut in 1949 with the play ''Touch and Go''. She portrayed Agnes Gooch in ''[[Auntie Mame (play)|Auntie Mame]]'' on Broadway and in the [[Auntie Mame (film)|film version]] (1958), a role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received an [[Academy Awards|Oscar nomination]] for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]].<ref name="ibdb"/> 

She was cast as "First Woman" in the nine-member ensemble of the 1960 Broadway revue ''[[A Thurber Carnival]]'', adapted by [[James Thurber]] from his own works.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Thurber|first=James|author-link=James Thurber|title=A Thurber Carnival|publisher=Samuel French, Inc|year=1962|location=New York|oclc=154260496}}</ref> She played several characters throughout the performance, including: the mother in "The Wolf at the Door", the narrator of "The Little Girl and the Wolf", a nameless American tourist (who insisted ''[[Macbeth]]'' was a murder mystery), Miss Alma Winege in "File and Forget" (who wanted to ship to Mr. Thurber 36 copies of ''Grandma Was a Nudist'', which he did not order), Mrs. Preble in "Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife", Lou in "Take Her Up Tenderly" (who was helping to make old poetry more cheerful), and [[Walter Mitty]]'s wife.<ref name=":0" />

In 1961, she played Mitzi Stewart in the movie ''[[Gidget Goes Hawaiian]]''. In 1964, she starred as First Lady Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield in the mock-biographical novel ''First Lady: My Thirty Days in the [[White House]]''. The book, written by ''Auntie Mame'' author [[Patrick Dennis]], included photographs by [[Cris Alexander]] of Cass, [[Dody Goodman]], [[Kaye Ballard]] and others who portrayed the novel's characters.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Staff|title=Also Current|magazine=Time|date=August 7, 1964|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871374,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013212112/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871374,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 13, 2007|access-date=2007-03-31}}</ref>

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cass succeeded other actresses in ''[[Don't Drink the Water (play)|Don't Drink the Water]]'' (as Marion Hollander) and in [[Neil Simon]]'s ''[[Plaza Suite]]'', and played Mollie Malloy in two revival runs of ''[[The Front Page]]''. She also appeared in the 1969 film comedy ''[[If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium]]''. In the 1980s, she returned to the stage in ''[[42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street]]'' and in the 1985 run of ''[[The Octette Bridge Club]]''.<ref name="ibdb">{{IBDB name|34854}}</ref>