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Baby Peggy. Actress: Helen's Babies. Silent moppet star Jackie Coogan, immortalized as Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921), had only one screen rival during the early 1920s, and that was none other than Baby Peggy. She was "discovered" while visiting the Century Studios lot on Sunset Boulevard with her mother when she was a mere 19 months old and went on to appear in nearly 150 shorts (between ...
Feb 24, 2020 · Diana Serra Cary, the silent film sensation known as Baby Peggy whose career in Hollywood came to a crashing halt when she was the ripe old age of 6, has died. She was 101. Cary, who from 1921 ...
Feb 24, 2020 · Added: Feb 24, 2020. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 207397739. Source citation. Actress, Author. From 1921 through 1924, she appeared in more than 150 silent films, earning as much as $1 million per year. Known for her distinctive bob haircut, Baby Peggy starred in such films as 'Little Red Riding Hood,' 'Hansel and Gretel,' 'Carmen Jr.,'.
Feb 25, 2020 · Diana Serra Cary, the child silent film star known by the nickname Baby Peggy, died on Monday in Gustine, Calif. She was 101. Born on October 29, 1918 as Peggy Jean Montgomery, Cary began her ...
Aug 29, 2008 · Diana Serra Cary's autobiography is both hauntingly sad and extraordinarily uplifting. The author writes with candor and authority, and as she tells the story of her life from her days as child star Baby Peggy in the 1920's to the present she draws the reader into a spellbinding tale that an author of fiction would have a difficult time fabricating.
- Diana Serra Cary
Diana Serra Cary, born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, was the general book buyer at the UC San Diego Bookstore in the 1980s. In the 1920s, she was known as "Baby Peggy," the wunderkind of celluloid with a $1.5 million annual film contract. More recently, she was heralded as “the last living silent film star” and she still holds...
Feb 25, 2020 · Diana Serra Cary, the silent movie star who was known by the nickname Baby Peggy, has died at the age of 101. She died at her home in Gustine, Calif. on Feb. 24, according to The Hollywood Reporter .
