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At the age of 15 Cathy Rigby was the first American woman to win a world medal when she won a silver on beam at the 1970 World Championships. Rigby qualified to the U.S. Olympic team for the 1968 Games in Mexico City and the 1972 Games in Munich. After the 1972 Olympics she retired from gymnastics.Cathy then took up acting. She made her on-stage musical debut in 1981 as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. She also performed in the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun and productions of Meet Me in St. Louis, South Pacific, Paint Your Wagon, They're Playing Our Song and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Cathy has also appeared in television and movies her credits include The Perfect Body, Hard to Read, The Great Wallendas and Triathlon. Her best-known theatrical role has been Peter in Peter Pan. She played Peter on Broadway in the early '90s, and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1991.

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james parrillo

Spencer Young, Was the actress in the Jif commercial Sandy Duncan? Thank you, Christine, James's wife

james parrillo

I had an aerobics record Cathy Rigby made. I did not realize her Olympic or theater background. Thank you, Christine, James's wife

carlthedad

I would get more of these correct if you would actually show the person you are asking me to identify. I got this one correct because I knew Kathy was the only name there associated with sports.

Jas Newman

Re the write-up statement that "... Cathy Rigby was the first American woman to win a world medal when she won a silver on beam at the 1970 World Championships."—Margaret Ives Abbott won a Gold Medal at the 1900 Paris Olympics.

silrem

I care about categories. I've found that Sports has been the most inaccurately portrayed category on this site, usually by being placed incomprehensibly in Geography or some such inappropriateness. However, this question did not deserve Sports, IMO, because she is pictured as an actress on stage it should be Culture. Yet her greater fame came in sports so it is a tough call. I wish the answer would have included her Olympic results to further justify the chosen category.