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This article from 2016 suggests ideas, but there is a lot more that has to be done, I'm afraid.
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Obituary: Welsh-born actress Peggy Cummins, known for her outstanding performance in the 1949 cult classic Gun Crazy, has died from complications of a stroke. Co-starring with John Dall as her partner in crime ala Bonnie and Clyde, she was truly evil incarnate although the two robbers/killers loved each other to the end, as I remember. I have the DVD someplace in all my stuff. It was one of my favorite films.
Cummins, of course, was nothing whatsoever like the character. She once dated JFK a bit, but she mostly gave up her movie career for that 1950s standby for women all over the world, and that is to find some guy, marry him, have kids, and hope the hell everything turns out and not wind up kicked to the curb in favor of a younger woman. Cummins found a good guy named William Herbert Derek Dunnett, had two children, and became a widow in 2000.
It was a pretty bland life compared to her movie roles, but I am sure she was happy about her choice. She did, however, go to screenings of Gun Crazy over the years.
She was just 92 years old:
Born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller in Wales and raised in Dublin, she was the daughter of actress Margaret Cummins. By age 12, Peggy Cummins had starred in a stage production of "Alice in Wonderland" and by 15 had appeared in her first film, "Dr. O'Dowd." The most notable of her later movies was the horror favorite "Night of the Demon" (also known as "Curse of the Demon"), directed by Jacques Tourneur and featuring Cummins as the niece of a psychologist whose investigation of a satanic cult leads to fatal consequences. Her final film, "In the Doghouse," came out in 1962._____
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