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Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
     
Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
(1907-91) a popular British actress who appeared in the theatre in many Shakespeare plays, and in films such as The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935) and A Passage to India (1984)
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