Film Career
Cummins made her film debut at 13 in the British production directed by Herbert Mason, Dr. O'Dowd (1940). Her first major film was English Without Tears (1944) with Michael Wilding and Lilli Palmer, directed by Harold French and released in the USA as Her Man Gilbey.
In 1945, Peggy Cummins was brought to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, to play Amber in Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber. She was soon replaced by Linda Darnell because she was "too young". She went on to make six films in Hollywood, including Gun Crazy with John Dall (1949). During a brief stay in Italy in 1948 while filming That Dangerous Age (1949) (also titled "If This Be Sin" and directed by Gregory Ratoff) with Myrna Loy and Roger Livesey, Cummins took voice lessons to prepare for a possible Hollywood musical.
She returned to London in 1950 to marry and work in British films. In 1952 she starred in Who Goes There! and in 1953 she appeared in Meet Mr. Lucifer an Ealing Studios comedy. She later starred alongside Dana Andrews in the horror film Night of the Demon (1957), directed by Jacques Tourneur and Hell Drivers (also 1957) which also featured Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan and Herbert Lom.
Cummins's last film, in 1961, was Darcy Conyers's In the Doghouse alongside Leslie Phillips.
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