Victoria Principal

She still works as an actress and producer, and has also created a line of skin care products and written three books about beauty and skin-care. She was continuing to teach tap-dance up to two days before her death from the effects of a stroke. She left the show after nine years, and began her own production company, Victoria Principal Productions. She was brought back to the small screen to play a minor role, as a secretary, in Hawaii Five-0. She agreed - and then landed the role of Pamela Ewing on Dallas. Her third wedding, in 1958, was to Hawaiian columnist Eddie Sherman, following which she left movies for choreography and semi-retirement. Principal planned on going to law school and later become a studio executive, but Aaron Spelling offered her one year's tuition to accept a role in the pilot of Fantasy Island. They toured together in a nightclub act before being divorced in 1957.

Four years later, disappointed with her career, she quit acting and for the next three years worked as an agent. She left Universal and was paired up with dancer Ray McDonald for 1949's Shamrock Hill and 1953's All Ashore, and married him in 1953. Her first film was as a Mexican mistress in Paul Newman's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. She married James Cross in 1945; they were divorced in 1952. She studied at RADA in London, and moved to Los Angeles in 1971. Her first pairing with O'Connor was 1942's What's Cookin'?, and they appeared in films together throughout World War II. She moved to New York, and worked as a model and actress. Her singing, acting, and dancing skills were noticed by George Murphy, who helped her get a role in 1937's Top of the Town.

She enrolled at Miami-Dade Community College, and wanted to study chiropractic medicine, but serious injures in a car crash at age 18 made her refocus her energy on acting. Her parents were the Vaudeville team "The Merry Dancing Ryans," and Peggy joined them onstage before she was two years old. She acted in a commercial when five and began modeling in high school. Peggy Ryan (born Margaret O'Rene Ryan on 28 August 1924 in Long Beach, California - 30 October 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American dancer who starred in a series of movie musicals at Universal Studios tapping with Donald O'Connor. Air Force, moved constantly, and she grew up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Georgia, among other places, attending 17 different schools. Hawaii Five-O - 1968 (television series). Her father, a sergeant in the U.S. All Ashore - 1953.

Victoria was the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principal and Ree Veal. Shamrock Hill - 1949. She is also well-known for her line of cosmetic products. There's a Girl in My Heart - 1949. Victoria Principal (born January 3, 1946 in Fukuoka, Japan) is an American actress, best known for her role as Pamela Barnes Ewing on the CBS nighttime drama Dallas from 1978 to 1987. Men in Her Diary - 1945. On Stage Everybody - 1945.

That's the Spirit - 1945. Patrick the Great - 1945. Here Come the Co-eds - 1945. Bowery to Broadway - 1944.

Babes on Swing Street - 1944. The Merry Monahans - 1944. This Is the Life - 1944. Chip Off the Old Block - 1944.

Top Man - 1943. Mister Big - 1943. When Johnny Comes Marching Home - 1942. Get Hep to Love - 1942.

Give Out, Sisters - 1942. Private Buckaroo - 1942. Miss Annie Rooney - 1942. Girls' Town - 1942.

What's Cookin'? - 1942. Sailor's Lady - 1940. The Grapes of Wrath - 1940. She Married a Cop - 1939.

The Flying Irishman - 1939. Billy Rose's Casa Maņana Revue - 1938. Women Men Marry - 1937. Top of the Town - 1937.

The Wedding of Jack and Jill - 1930.