Trivia

Was the model for Tinker Bell, not Marilyn Monroe as widely rumored.

Kerry was originally born as Margaret McCarty, the fourth child and only daughter of John Riley McCarty III (1904-1981) and Mary Eleanor Henderson (1905-1933); when her mother died in childbirth in 1933, Kerry was adopted by Frederick Goodrich Robb (1882-1954) and Grace Mable Lynch (1882-1955).

Kerry as a teenager played the role of "Sharon" in the first network sitcom, The Ruggles, on ABC-TV. The show's farewell episode at the end of its three-year run featured Sharon's wedding and honeymoon.

She worked under her real name as a dancer and actor in three of the Our Gang comedy shorts.

In 2019, Kerry self-published a booklet "They All Look Alike To Me" with short stories detailing her having prosopagnosia, also known as "face blindness".

Kerry published her autobiography in 2016 Tinker Bell Talks: Tales of a Pixie Dusted Life (ISBN 978-1533500755) with stories and anecdotes from her life and career, and featuring 180 photos and pieces of art.

Kerry served as a camera double for Elizabeth Taylor in film National Velvet at MGM.

She attracted the attention of Eddie Cantor, who cast her in the role of his teenage daughter in the film I"f You Knew Susie". Cantor thought Lynch needed a more theatrical-sounding name to be more noticeable as an actor, so she officially became Margaret Kerry.

A voiceover performer with twenty-one dialects and forty-eight character voices, Kerry provided voices on 52 episodes of the groundbreaking children's television show, Clutch Cargo, including characters "Paddlefoot" and "Spinner".

She reconnected after 70 years with her former boyfriend, 94-year-old WWII veteran Robert Boeke. The two were married on Valentine's Day 2020 in a ceremony at the Little Brown Church in the Valley in Studio City, California. Kerry died from lung cancer in Wilmington, North Carolina, at the age of 97. Her husband Robert Boeke died less than three weeks earlier, on May 24, at the age of 100.

Her first role was as a fairy in the 1935 film A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Max Reinhardt.

In 2012, Kerry was the recipient of the Disneyana Fan Club President's award.

Kerry answered an audition call during the planning stages of the animated feature film Peter Pan. The audition, supervised by animator Marc Davis, required her to pantomime the motions that would be used as live-action reference for the animation of Tinker Bell. As Tinker Bell was to be non verbal, her movements would be integral, and Davis sought a dancer that could help embody the character. Kerry won the part and spent six months at the Disney Studios on a mostly empty sound stage pantomiming the part.

She was adopted at three years old and moved to Los Angeles. Her adoptive parents later had her name legally changed to Peggy Lynch.

In 2019, on the occasion of her 90th birthday, Kerry was honored with certificates by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on behalf of the City of Los Angeles; the Los Angeles City Council; and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors via 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger. Kerry also received a card from the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, who noted Kerry's life as "an important part of the American story and the history of Cinema and Entertainment.".

She provided numerous voices and live-action lead-ins for The New Three Stooges and Space Angel animated series for Cambria Productions.

Margaret Kerry was an American screen actress, dancer, voice artist, camera double, radio producer, director, host and media personality, best known for her work as a model for Walt Disney Pictures,.

Kerry was a producer, writer, and host of What's Up Weekly - Ministry Loves Company on KKLA-FM, Los Angeles, from 1992 and 2004, a Christian radio station. Also serving as the station's community services director, she headed an outreach program that connected to more than 200 non-profit service agencies.

As a supporter and contributor within the animation community, Kerry served as a board member of ASIFA-Hollywood for a number of years.

Margaret Kerry graduated from high school with honors while working on the film and would later graduate cum laude from Los Angeles City College.