Peg o' My Heart is a 1933

1933 in film

-Events:* March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.* British Film Institute founded....

 film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners

J. Hartley Manners

John Hartley Manners was a London-born playwright of Irish extraction who wrote Peg o' My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs.-Biography:...

. It starred Marion Davies

Marion Davies

Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....

 as a poor Irish girl who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions.

Cast

• Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
  
   as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
• Onslow Stevens
  Onslow Stevens
  Onslow Stevens was an American stage, television and film actor.-Career:Born Onslow Ford Stevenson in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of character actor Housley Stevenson...
  
   as Sir Gerald Markham
• J. Farrell MacDonald
  J. Farrell MacDonald
  Joseph Farrell MacDonald was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. MacDonald, who was sometimes billed as "John Farrell Macdonald", "J.F...
  
   as Patrick Shamus O'Connell
• Juliette Compton
  Juliette Compton
  Juliette Compton was an American actress whose career began in the silent film era and concluded with That Hamilton Woman in 1941....
  
   as Ethel Chichester
• Irene Browne
  Irene Browne
  Irene Browne was an English stage and film actress and singer who appeared in plays and musicals such as No, No, Nanette. Later in her career, she became particularly associated with the works of Noel Coward and acted in films....
  
   as Mrs. Chichester
• Tyrell Davis as Alaric Chichester
• Alan Mowbray
  Alan Mowbray
  Alan Mowbray MM, , was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery...
  
   as Captain Christopher Brent
• Doris Lloyd
  Doris Lloyd
  Hessy Doris Lloyd was an English actress.She appeared in over 150 films between 1920 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy...
  
   as Mrs. Grace Brent

Adaptations to other media

Peg O' My Heart was adapted as a radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater

Lux Radio Theater

Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network ; CBS and NBC . Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences...

, first on February 3, 1935 with Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen Paula O’Sullivan was an Irish actress.-Early life:O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, the daughter of Roman Catholic parents Mary Lovatt and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in The Connaught Rangers who served in The Great War...

, then on November 29, 1937 with Marion Davies, Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne

Brian Aherne was a British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.-Early life and stage career:...

 and Benita Hume

Benita Hume

Benita Hume was an English film actress. She appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1955.She was married to actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958; they were the parents of a daughter, Juliet...

. It was also adapted to the June 17, 1949 broadcast of the Ford Theatre

Ford Theatre

Ford Theatre was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts...

.