gives vapid sex lectures on the topic of "Why You *Should* Marry", and wiggles her torso a lot---it is meant to show the wild side of life in the 1920s before the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. In D.W. Griffiths final film, which is about prohibition, The Struggle (1931), characters are in a restaurant drinking beer and talking about current events. "Time for the democrats" one says. "I see Peggy Joyce is married again" says another. In the 1932 film Two Seconds, there are two references to Peggy Joyce. Bud Clark (Preston Foster) is setting up John Allen (Edward G Robinson) with a blind date. Bud: "She's got class, works in a laundry" John: "Well I hope she's got class" Bud: "Hey listen remember now, I aint promisin ya no Peggy Joyce". Later, Bud to John: "While we go chasing around tryin a find a Peggy Joyce for ya, what do you do? You go out and get yaself hog-tied to a dance hall dame." In the 1934 film Change of Heart, James Dunn rebuffs the advances of Ginger Rogers by saying, "Peggy Joyce is after me! (straightening his tie) and that's only one." In the 1934 film Strictly Dynamite, Jimmy Durante sings a song called "I'm Putty In Your Hands" with Lupe Velez. Its lyrics (written by Durante and Harold Adamson) include the lines "At every dinner party...I'm the ladies' choice! I hold...my own with Harlow, Garbo...and even Peggy Joyce!" In Damon Runyon's short story "The Lily of St Pierre", when the narrator criticizes the quality of the hostesses in Good Time Charley Bernstein's speakeasies, Charley "admits that I may be right, but he says that it is very difficult to get any Peggy Joyces for 25 bobs per week." Selected filmography The Turmoil (1916) The Skyrocket (1926) *lost film International House (1933) References Further reading Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce by Constance Rosenblum (2000), Henry Holt & Company, . External links Beatrice Rosenblum collection of Peggy Hopkins Joyce materials, 1895-1998 [bulk 1917-1933], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1893 births 1957 deaths 20th-century American actresses Actresses from Virginia American artists' models American female dancers Female models from Virginia American film actresses American musical theatre actresses American stage actresses American silent film actresses Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York) Deaths