1918-10-29 ( 106 years old ) in San Diego, California, USA
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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 the last living film star 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.
Movies
Showbiz Kids
2020-07-14
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012-12-30
Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
2012-09-05
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011-04-03
Girl 27
2007-07-27
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999-06-14
Hollywood’s Children
1982-02-24
Having Wonderful Time
1938-07-01
True Confession
1937-12-24
Souls at Sea
1937-09-03
Ah, Wilderness!
1935-12-25
A Girl of the Limberlost
1934-10-14
The Return of Chandu
1934-10-01
Eight Girls in a Boat
1934-01-05
Off His Base
1932-09-18
Hollywood on Parade
1932-06-05
Life in Hollywood No. 3
1927-08-25
April Fool
1926-11-15
Helen's Babies
1924-10-11
The Family Secret
1924-09-28
Captain January
1924-07-06
The Flower Girl
1924-05-25
The Law Forbids
1924-04-07
Peg o' the Mounted
1924-02-27
Such Is Life
1924-01-30
Our Pet
1924-01-01
Hansel and Gretel
1923-12-26
The Darling of New York
1923-12-03
Miles of Smiles
1923-11-28
Carmen, Jr.
1923-08-29
Hollywood
1923-08-19
The Kid Reporter
1923-05-30
Sweetie
1923-04-04
Fools First
1922-05-27
The Little Rascal
1922-05-24
Circus Clowns
1922-01-25
Peggy, Behave!
1922-01-01
Get-Rich-Quick Peggy
1921-12-07
Brownie's Little Venus
1921-09-13
Playmates
1921-05-18
Her Circus Man
1921-03-09
Sea Shore Shapes
1921-01-02
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