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Peg Phillips
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What initially attracted people like Peg Phillips and all the Microsofties and their high-tech brethren were Woodinville's big lots. A majority of them are still big, at about ¾-acre. The newer houses are large, too, mostly traditional and Craftsman-style, with two stories, dormers and a shake roof.
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A late-blooming actress whose delayed entry into the entertainment industry at age 65 followed an extended career as an accountant, Peg Phillips would ... endear herself to television audiences as lively shopkeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on television's popular Northern Exposure. A native of Everett, WA, who had, as a child, dreamed of a life on the silver screen, Phillips instead chose a more practical career in order to adequately care for her children and pay the bills. Following her retirement, Phillips would enroll in the University of Washington drama school in 1984. Never actually completing her degree due to increasing film and television work, Phillips signed on for what was at first an intermittent role in Northern Exposure, though her lovably acidic character would soon become a regular fixture of the series. With film work including such features as Waiting for the Light (1990) and Dogfight (1991), Phillips was able to give back to her community by founding a drama program for juvenile offenders at the Snoqualmie, WA, children's center at which she volunteered. Phillips would also found Woodinville, Washington's Woodinville Repertory Theater, where she would appear in numerous plays.
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An unrepentant smoker, Peg Phillips died of lung disease in an adult care facility in Bothell on November 7, 2002. She left two daughters, Virginia Phillips, Everett, and Rev. Elizabeth Green, Boise, Idaho; four grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
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Travelling salesman Tom Phillips (Dana Andrews) gets into a car accident on a foggy Christmas-eve caused by a drunk driver and ends up with a bad back injury. Unable to work at the same job and needing a warm climate, Tom has his family move from sophisticated Boston to the culturally-deprived desert in Mayville, California, to start a new life. Tom's older brother Bill, who lives in California, hooked him up with a reasonably priced motel-restaurant called Dailey's. The family, that includes loyal wife Peg (Jeanne Crain), 16-year-old boy crazy daughter Tina (Laurie Mock) and chipper adolescent son Jamie (Tim Stafford), travel there in their older model station wagon. Dad not only has physical problems, but his mental health is suffering from depression and loss of nerve. Peg drives since Tom is still feeling under the weather.
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With Duke and his gang long gone, the Phillips family continues their trip. They arrive at the motel to find the adjoining "coffee shop" really jumping. They quickly get settled in for the night but Tina sneaks out her bedroom window. It seems she can't resist the siren song of Mickey Rooney Jr. and his combo. She finds Ernie and Gloria, who Duke refers to as "stale bread", getting groovy on the crowded dance floor. Gloria makes a scene when she sees that Duke is interested in Tina, a girl who is apparently bakery fresh.
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The good news is that Peg Phillips, rumors to the contrary, is still alive and well. She was replaced by Celeste Holme on "Home of the Brave" after the pilot, but has been seen guesting as a crusty judge on "Suddenly Susan", the Brooke Shields comedy vehicle. It was nice to see her looking healthy after all her problems last year. Peg is active in Seattle theatre workshops and other causes.
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