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Feb 25, 2020 · Baby Peggy has passed away after leaving behind a legacy in silent films. As a child, she made $1 million a year, but her reign on the big screen didn't last for long. Diana Serra Cary has passed away at her home in Gustine, California, at age 101, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Better known as "Baby Peggy," she was one of the biggest ...
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 ...
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.
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Apr 15, 1996 · A personal look at a group of forgotten cowboy actors/ stunt men. This fascinating book was an invaluable source of information about the early days of movie making. The author, Diana Serra Cary, was a star of several movie shorts . She was once known as Baby Peggy. One of the members of the Hollywood Posse was her father, Jack.
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Diana Serra Cary, silent-film star ‘Baby Peggy’ who often cheated death on set, dies at 101 ... A still from the short “Peg o’ the Movies” (1923) shows her in a slinky dress and holding ...
Diana Serra Cary. Actress. 29 October 1918 to 24 February 2020. An American actress known as ‘Baby Peggy’ who found fame as a toddler after appearing in films including Playmates (1921), Cary’s fame lasted five years until a disagreement between her father and producers led to her contract being cancelled. She went on to become a writer ...
Mar 4, 2016 · “People said my performances changed their lives,” says Peggy, 97, who now goes by the name Diana Serra Cary (she changed it when she was 61) and who may very well be the last living silent ...
