Peggy Lee?

I was too busy looking for Jane Wyman to notice. I happened to still have the movie on DVR so I went back to the swimming scene to look for the girl you mentioned. I can see what you mean about the resemblance to Peggy Lee. The girl with the ringlet curls does look a lot like Ms. Lee. I don't know about their voices but they do have similar facial features. Still, I'm fairly certain it was not Ms. Lee.

As I mentioned, Jane Wyman is in this movie. I never found her, even though I know she was one of the chorus girls. She apparently had no lines and may have been on screen for a split second yet this movie is on her resume. It's fairly common for actors' resumes to include even the smallest roles; credited or not.

What's more, Jane Wyman's name was mentioned on TCM as one of several people to look out for in this movie. If Peggy Lee had been in it, I suspect her name would have been mentioned too; especially since this is a musical.

Also, Peggy Lee's bio says she made an unsuccessful trip to Hollywood when she was only seventeen. Had she gotten any role in a movie, it would have been a big deal. A singing role, albeit minor, in a big budget musical in which her face is clearly visible would have been worth mentioning. Peggy Lee's resume makes no mention of this movie at all.

Besides, while this movie is called Gold diggers of 1937, the movie was actually released in December 1936; that means it was filmed sometime before December. At most, Ms. Lee would have been sixteen years old at the time. She wouldn't turn seventeen until May of the following year; that would have put her in Hollywood sometime between May 1937 and May 1938. The first item on her resume was an uncredited role in 1943. Mystery solved!


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