Cast & creator
Baby Peggy
Best known for Showbiz Kids, Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl, When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
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.
Also known as: Peggy-Jean Montgomery, Peggy Montgomery, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Diana Serra Cary, Dianna Serra Cary
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Filmography (45)
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Showbiz Kids
Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
2020
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'
1999
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Self
1989
Souls at Sea
Bit Role (uncredited)
1937
The Return of Chandu
Judy Allen
1934
The Darling of New York
Santussa
1923
True Confession
Autograph Hunter (uncredited)
1937
Hollywood on Parade
Self
1932
Eight Girls in a Boat
Hortense
1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
Schoolgirl
1934
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Herself
2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself
2011
Having Wonderful Time
(uncredited)
1938
Sweetie
The Little Newspaper Vendor
1923
Hollywood
Baby Peggy Montgomery
1923
Hollywood’s Children
Self
1982Hollywood’s Children
Writer
1982
Peg o' the Mounted
Peg
1924Brownie's Little Venus
1921
Circus Clowns
1922
Life in Hollywood No. 3
Self
1927
Helen's Babies
Toddie
1924
Ah, Wilderness!
Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
1935
The Family Secret
Peggy Holmes
1924
Playmates
Baby Peggy
1921
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
Herself
2012Peggy, Behave!
Baby Peggy
1922Her Circus Man
1921Off His Base
Peggy
1932
Sea Shore Shapes
1921
April Fool
Irma Goodman - a Child
1926
Life in Hollywood
Self
1927
Captain January
Captain January
1924
The Law Forbids
Peggy
1924
The Kid Reporter
Peggy
1923Our Pet
1924
Girl 27
Self
2007The Little Rascal
Baby Peggy
1922Get-Rich-Quick Peggy
1921Such Is Life
The Little Match Girl
1924
Fools First
Little girl
1922
Miles of Smiles
The Twins (dual role)
1923The Flower Girl
1924
Hansel and Gretel
Gretel
1923