
Cast
Baby Peggy
Acting
Cast
Baby Peggy
Known for
Acting
Born
1918-10-29
From
San Diego, California, USA
Died
2020-02-24
Also known as Peggy-Jean Montgomery, Peggy Montgomery, Baby Peggy Montgomery
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.

Girl 27
as Self

Captain January
as Captain January

Carmen, Jr.

Our Pet

Showbiz Kids
as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)

Hollywood’s Children
as Self

Ah, Wilderness!
as Girl at Graduation (uncredited)

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
as Herself

Hollywood
as Baby Peggy Montgomery

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
as Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'

Peggy, Behave!
as Baby Peggy

Souls at Sea
as Bit Role (uncredited)

April Fool
as Irma Goodman - a Child

True Confession
as Autograph Hunter (uncredited)

The Return of Chandu
as Judy Allen

Having Wonderful Time
as (uncredited)

The Law Forbids
as Peggy

Brownie's Little Venus

Helen's Babies
as Toddie

Hollywood on Parade
as Self

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
as Herself

A Girl of the Limberlost
as Schoolgirl

Off His Base
as Peggy

Get-Rich-Quick Peggy

Sea Shore Shapes

Hansel and Gretel
as Gretel

The Darling of New York
as Santussa

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)

The Kid Reporter
as Peggy

The Family Secret
as Peggy Holmes

Miles of Smiles
as The Twins (dual role)

Her Circus Man

Sweetie
as The Little Newspaper Vendor

Fools First
as Little girl

Playmates
as Baby Peggy

Such Is Life
as The Little Match Girl

The Little Rascal
as Baby Peggy

Peg o' the Mounted
as Peg

Life in Hollywood No. 3
as Self

Eight Girls in a Boat
as Hortense

Circus Clowns
