---
name: "Peg Fenwick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peggy-thompson"
fi1m_id: "peggy-thompson"
imdb_id: "nm0272128"
tmdb_id: 988922
wikidata_id: "Q70127850"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 November 1907"
died: "5 November 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:31:20.969829+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Peg Fenwick

## Identity

Peg Fenwick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peggy-thompson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peggy-thompson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0272128
- **TMDB ID:** 988922
- **Wikidata ID:** Q70127850
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Fenwick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70127850, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272128/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/988922

Writer. Born 9 November 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 5 November 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 November 1907, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 5 November 1987
- **Also known as:** Peggy Thompson, Peg Padover
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Fenwick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70127850, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272128/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/988922

## Biography

Peg Fenwick was an American screenwriter and playwright. Born Margaret Fenwick McCray on 9 November 1907 in New York City, she worked under the names Peggy Thompson and Peg Padover, and also contributed to the French film industry.

Her screenplays include *Whirlpool of Desire* (1935) and *King of the Newsboys* (1938). She adapted the novel by Edna Lee and Harry Lee for the screenplay of *All That Heaven Allows* (1955), directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. She also wrote the stage play *Meet the World* (1950).

Fenwick married Saul K. Padover in 1957. She died on 5 November 1987 in Fulton, Missouri.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *All That Heaven Allows* (1955), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/all-that-heaven-allows.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *All That Heaven Allows* (1955), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/all-that-heaven-allows.md)
- *King of the Newsboys* (1938), Writer
- *Midshipman Easy* (1935), Writer
- *Whirlpool* (1935), Writer

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