Peggy O'Dare on AllMovie

A Mack Sennett "Bathing Beauty" in 1916, blonde Peggy Aarup also worked in Sennett rival Henry Lehrman's L-KO comedies before switching to Universal. Cast opposite that company's foremost action star Eddie Polo in some of the Cyclone Smith Western two-reelers, Aarup, whose name had been changed to Peggy O'Dare in deference, presumably, to her fearless attitude, went off to film the proposed "The Broken Idol" (aka "The Thirteenth Hour") in Europe. The company, however, ran out of money and the salvaged footage was used instead in the 18-chapter The Vanishing Dagger (1920), featuring Polo, Thelma Percy and a ninth-billed O'Dare. Following a couple of minor Gower Gulch Westerns and a Priscilla Dean melodrama filmed in Oregon, O'Dare left the screen to marry an oilman. (She should not be confused with Peggy O'Day (born Peggy Reis), a contemporary silent screen actress and a minor serial queen.)