Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Margaret Kerry, the inspiration for Disney’s Tinker Bell for the 1953 classic “Peter Pan,” died at 97. “It is with profound ...
She also starred opposite Eddie Cantor in ‘If You Knew Susie’ and on the early ABC sitcom ‘The Ruggles’ and did lots of voice work on cartoons.
Actor Margaret Kelly, who starred in “The Ruggles” and inspired the “Peter Pan” Tinker Bell character, had died from cancer. She was 97.