Baby Peggy
Acting
Born 1918-10-29
Died 2020-02-24
San Diego, California, USA
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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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Filmography
Acting
36 credits
Showbiz Kids
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Ah, Wilderness!
Peggy, Behave!
Hollywood
Souls at Sea
Playmates
True Confession
Hollywood’s Children
Having Wonderful Time
Sweetie
Such Is Life
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
Helen's Babies
The Family Secret
Life in Hollywood
The Return of Chandu
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Captain January
Hollywood on Parade
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Off His Base
Miles of Smiles
Peg o' the Mounted
A Girl of the Limberlost
Girl 27
The Law Forbids
The Kid Reporter
Eight Girls in a Boat
April Fool
Hansel and Gretel
The Little Rascal
Life in Hollywood No. 3
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Fools First
The Darling of New York
Other credits
8 credits
Our Pet
Circus Clowns
Brownie's Little Venus
The Flower Girl
Her Circus Man
Sea Shore Shapes
Get-Rich-Quick Peggy
Carmen, Jr.
Writing
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