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| | | | |  | | | Peggy Rea: one of the original members of Lucy's "Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts Club" | | | |
Peggy Rea, who appeared as a member of Lucy's bridge club in 1998's 50th Anniversary Lucy Reunion re-creation of My Favorite Husband, felt right at home in that role. After all, she played the very same bridge hand with Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance and Doris Singleton in the TV version of that episode in 1953 (Episode #62 of I Love Lucy - "Lucy is Matchmaker"). Ms. Rea previously appeared on the series as a member of Lucy's "Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League" in "The Club Election" (Episode #47), as a bridge club member in "No Children Allowed" (Episode #57), and as the nurse who wheels expectant father Ricky into the hospital in "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" (Episode #56). Her "Lucy connection" began as a secretary at CBS Radio, where she got to know Lucy's radio writers Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Pugh, who worked on the same floor. Quitting her CBS job to pursue a theatrical career, Ms. Rea appeared on Broadway in the Cole Porter musical Out of This World and toured for two years with Anthony Quinn in the national road company of A Streetcar Named Desire, before returning to Hollywood for her TV debut on I Love Lucy. Ms. Rea is familiar to TV audiences as "Jean Kelly" (Grace's ex-mother-in-law) on Grace Under Fire, "Rose" on The Waltons, and "Lulu Hogg" on The Dukes of Hazzard. Her many other TV appearances include such shows as All in the Family, Maude, Mannix, Wild, Wild West, Charlie's Angels, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Mission Impossible, and Ben Casey. Ms. Rea's feature film credits include Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, The Learning Tree, Grumpy Old Men, In Country, Love Field, Made in America, and Devil in a Blue Dress.
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