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Diana Serra Cary. 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. She was the last surviving person with a substantial career in silent films.
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 27, 2020 · Feb 27, 2020 Updated Apr 21, 2020. Diana Serra Cary, loving mother, grandmother, child actor, author and historian, passed away Feb. 24 in her home in Gustine at the age of 101. Born Peggy Jean Montgomery in 1918 in San Diego, she soon became a child star in Hollywood during the silent film era. Known worldwide as Baby Peggy, she was the last ...
Feb 25, 2020 · Published Feb. 25, 2020 Updated Feb. 26, 2020. Diana Serra Cary, an author, a film historian and probably the last surviving child superstar of the silent film era nearly a century ago, who spent ...
Feb 25, 2020 · (1935) – and changed her name to Diana Ayres, to distance herself from Baby Peggy. They were divorced in 1948. When she became a Roman Catholic she took Serra as her confirmation name and she married her second husband, artist Bob Cary, in 1954.
Feb 25, 2020 · After converting to Catholicism, she took the middle name Serra, in honor of the canonized Spanish missionary Junípero Serra. Her second husband, Robert Cary, whom she married in 1954, died in 2003.
Baby Peggy (1918-2020) Baby Peggy. 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 ...
