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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…
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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.
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2020
Showbiz Kids
Movie Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
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2012
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Movie Herself
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2012
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
Movie Herself
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2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Movie Herself
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2007
Girl 27
Movie Self
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1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'
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1989
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Movie Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
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1982
Hollywood’s Children
Movie Self
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1938
Having Wonderful Time
Movie (uncredited)
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1937
True Confession
Movie Autograph Hunter (uncredited)
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1937
Souls at Sea
Movie Bit Role (uncredited)
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1935
Ah, Wilderness!
Movie Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
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1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
Movie Schoolgirl
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1934
The Return of Chandu
Movie Judy Allen
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1934
Eight Girls in a Boat
Movie Hortense
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1932
Off His Base
Movie Peggy
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1932
Hollywood on Parade
Movie Self
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1927
Life in Hollywood No. 3
Movie Self
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1927
Life in Hollywood
Movie Self
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1926
April Fool
Movie Irma Goodman - a Child
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1924
Helen's Babies
Movie Toddie
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1924
The Family Secret
Movie Peggy Holmes
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1924
Captain January
Movie Captain January
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1924
The Flower Girl
Movie
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1924
The Law Forbids
Movie Peggy
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1924
Peg o' the Mounted
Movie Peg
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1924
Such Is Life
Movie The Little Match Girl
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1924
Our Pet
Movie
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1923
Hansel and Gretel
Movie Gretel
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1923
The Darling of New York
Movie Santussa
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1923
Miles of Smiles
Movie The Twins (dual role)
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1923
Carmen, Jr.
Movie
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1923
Hollywood
Movie Baby Peggy Montgomery
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1923
The Kid Reporter
Movie Peggy
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1923
Sweetie
Movie The Little Newspaper Vendor
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1922
Fools First
Movie Little girl
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1922
The Little Rascal
Movie Baby Peggy
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1922
Circus Clowns
Movie
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1922
Peggy, Behave!
Movie Baby Peggy
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1921
Get-Rich-Quick Peggy
Movie
