Known for:	American Beauty, King Kong, Lady and the Tramp
Birth name:	Norma Delores Egstrom
Birthday:	26 May 1920, Jamestown, North Dakota, USA

Suffered stroke. [27 October 1998] Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1987. Has one daughter, Nicki Lee Foster, from her marriage to late guitarist Dave Barbour. A diabetic, Lee was often troubled by weight and glandular problems. In 1961, she was felled by double pneumonia and in 1976, she had a near-fatal fall in a New York hotel. She was again seriously injured in another fall in Las Vegas in 1987. In early 1985, she underwent four angioplasties - balloon surgery to open clogged arteries - and resumed her singing tour. While appearing in New Orleans in October 1985, she underwent double-bypass heart surgery. In 1998, she suffered a stroke which impaired her speech, requiring therapy to recover. Her work on the 1955 Disney film, Lady and the Tramp led to a landmark legal judgment 36 years later when a California court awarded her $2.3 million after she sued for a portion of the profits from the videocassette sale of the movie. The case hinged on a clause in her pre-video-era contract barring the sale of "transcriptions" of the movie without her approval. She decided to become a singer at age 14, when she earned 50 cents a night at gigs for local PTAs. A few years later she traveled to Fargo where she sang on a local radio station. The WDAY program director suggested a name change, and she became Peggy Lee. Has a rose named after her. The "Peggy Lee" rose is pink with a touch of peach. Voiced four different characters in Lady and the Tramp: Darling, Peg, and both the Siamese cats. Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1992. In addition to her accomplishments as a singer, she was a very fine songwriter, with several hit songs to her credit, many of them written in collaboration with her first husband, Dave Barbour. Her song writing credits include: "It's a Good Day," "Manana," "I Don't Know Enough About You" (all with Barbour), "Bella Notte," "Peace on Earth" (both with Sonny Burke), "Don't Forget to Feed the Reindeer," and "So, What's New?" (with John Pisano and Ervin "Bud" Coleman). Ranked #93 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock N Roll At the time of her death, she was leading a potentially groundbreaking class-action lawsuit vs. Universal Music, a unit of Vivendi Universal. In early January 2002, the music giant agreed to pay $4.75 million in back royalties to as many as 300 performers to settle the suit. She had pneumonia when she gave birth to her daughter and almost died. She became engaged to her ex-husband David Barbour, who divorced her because he felt his drinking was not good for his daughter, four days before he died. He claimed he had been sober thirteen years by then and was ready to re-marry her. Is portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow in Infamous

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