Baby Peggy
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Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, October 29, 1918 – February 24, 2020), known as Baby Peggy, was an American child film actress, vaudevillian, author and silent film historian. At the time of her death, she was one of the last living film stars of the Silent Era of Hollywood.
Montgomery, as she then was, was one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent film era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie. Between 1921 and 1923 she made over 150 short films for the Century Film Corporation. In 1922 she received over 1.2 million fan letters, and by 1924 she had been dubbed The Million Dollar Baby for her $1.5 million annual salary ($22 million in 2018). Despite her childhood fame and wealth, she found herself poor and working as an extra by the 1930s.
Having an interest in both writing and history since her youth, Montgomery found a second career as an author and silent film historian in her later years under the name Diana Serra Cary. She was the author of several books including her historical novel, The Drowning of the Moon, and was an advocate for child actors' rights.
Cary died at her home in Gustine, California at the age of 101.
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Enfants vedettes a Hollywood
2020 · Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012 · Herself
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
2012 · Herself
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · Herself
Girl 27
2007 · Self
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1989 · Self
Hollywood’s Children
1982 · Self, Writer
Having Wonderful Time
1938 · (uncredited)
True Confession
1937 · Autograph Hunter (uncredited)
Souls at Sea
1937 · Bit Role (uncredited)
Ah, Wilderness!
1935 · Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934 · Schoolgirl
The Return of Chandu
1934 · Judy Allen
Eight Girls in a Boat
1934 · Hortense
Off His Base
1932 · Peggy
Hollywood on Parade
1932 · Self
Life in Hollywood No. 3
1927 · Self
Life in Hollywood
1927 · Self
April Fool
1926 · Irma Goodman - a Child
Helen's Babies
1924 · Toddie
The Family Secret
1924 · Peggy Holmes
Captain January
1924 · Captain January
The Flower Girl
1924
The Law Forbids
1924 · Peggy
Peg o' the Mounted
1924 · Peg
Such Is Life
1924 · The Little Match Girl
Our Pet
1924
Hansel and Gretel
1923 · Gretel
The Darling of New York
1923 · Santussa
Miles of Smiles
1923 · The Twins (dual role)
Carmen, Jr.
1923
Hollywood
1923 · Baby Peggy Montgomery
The Kid Reporter
1923 · Peggy
Sweetie
1923 · The Little Newspaper Vendor
Fools First
1922 · Little girl
The Little Rascal
1922 · Baby Peggy
Circus Clowns
1922
Peggy, Behave!
1922 · Baby Peggy
Get-Rich-Quick Peggy
1921
Brownie's Little Venus
1921
Playmates
1921 · Baby Peggy
Her Circus Man
1921
Sea Shore Shapes
1921
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