Baby Peggy
Born: 1918-10-29 in San Diego, California, USA
Died: 2020-02-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
2020
- Showbiz Kids as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
2012
- Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room as Herself
- Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess as Herself
2011
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself
2007
- Girl 27 as Self
1999
- Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl as Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'
1989
- When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
1982
- Hollywood’s Children as Self
1938
- Having Wonderful Time as (uncredited)
1937
- True Confession as Autograph Hunter (uncredited)
- Souls at Sea as Bit Role (uncredited)
1935
- Ah, Wilderness! as Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
1934
- The Return of Chandu as Judy Allen
- Eight Girls in a Boat as Hortense
- A Girl of the Limberlost as Schoolgirl
1932
- Off His Base as Peggy
- Hollywood on Parade as Self
1927
- Life in Hollywood No. 3 as Self
- Life in Hollywood as Self
1926
- April Fool as Irma Goodman - a Child
1924
- Helen's Babies as Toddie
- The Family Secret as Peggy Holmes
- Captain January as Captain January
- Our Pet
- Peg o' the Mounted as Peg
- Such Is Life as The Little Match Girl
- The Law Forbids as Peggy
- The Flower Girl
1923
- Sweetie as The Little Newspaper Vendor
- Hollywood as Baby Peggy Montgomery
- The Kid Reporter as Peggy
- Miles of Smiles as The Twins (dual role)
- The Darling of New York as Santussa
- Hansel and Gretel as Gretel
- Carmen, Jr.
1922
- Circus Clowns
- The Little Rascal as Baby Peggy
- Fools First as Little girl
- Peggy, Behave! as Baby Peggy