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