Baby Peggy
Also Known As: Peggy-Jean Montgomery, Peggy Montgomery, Baby Peggy Montgomery, Diana Serra Cary, Dianna Serra Cary, Diana Sera Carey, Peggy Jane, Diana Ayres
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 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA
Birthday: October 29, 1918
Deathday: February 24, 2020
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Gender: Female
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Hansel and Gretel
Overview: This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-26
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True Confession
Overview: A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Fools First
Overview: Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-27
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Having Wonderful Time
Overview: Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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Life in Hollywood No. 3
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
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Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
Overview: Documentary about an extraordinary lady, Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery). In the early 1920s she was one of Hollywood's first major child stars, Baby Peggy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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Captain January
Overview: During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-06
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Carmen, Jr.
Overview: A spoof of Bizet's Carmen, showcasing child star Baby Peggy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-29
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Helen's Babies
Overview: A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to warm to them, and also to a beautiful young local girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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Girl 27
Overview: The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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Off His Base
Overview: It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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The Family Secret
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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April Fool
Overview: An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle--but the money was really stolen by the rich man's son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-15
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Souls at Sea
Overview: Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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The Return of Chandu
Overview: Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Our Pet
Overview: Baby Peggy short – AKA Too Many Lovers Our Pet tell the story of little girl Baby Peggy who warding off thieves. This short film is one of the titles from 1920s silent film series “Baby Peggy” that played by Diana Serra Cary, the last living silent film star. She was the one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent movie era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie . Most of Cary's “Baby Peggy” films including Our Pet had been lost when the Century Studios burned down in 1926. In September 2016, Japanese silent film narrator (Benshi) and silent film collector Ichiro Kataoka discovered the 9.5 mm print of this long lost film in Japan and brought it back to the screen with his Benshi performance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Overview: Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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Hollywood on Parade
Overview: A short featuring many stars
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-05
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Get-Rich-Quick Peggy
Overview: Teddy and Peggy are discovered working on the farm, but they are soon fired and leave for the city. Here a rich uncle is expecting his niece.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-07
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Brownie's Little Venus
Overview: A 1921 American silent short film directed by Fred Hibbard for Century Film Company and starring Baby Peggy and Brownie the dog. It was rediscovered in Switzerland in 2010.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-13
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Sweetie
Overview: A Baby Peggy two-reeler
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-04
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Sea Shore Shapes
Overview: The story of a bad organ grinder, a life saver, a pretty girl and her baby sister. A dog takes an active part in the final rescue and helps save the child from the fleeing kidnapper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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Her Circus Man
Overview: A lost silent short comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-09
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Ah, Wilderness!
Overview: At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father. A tender, coming-of-age story, with a wonderful look at a long-gone, but fondly remembered, small town America.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Eight Girls in a Boat
Overview: In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers she is going to have a baby, and keeps the secret from everyone but her lover, David Perrin, a young medical student. Having been in the private school most of her life, she can't confide in her father whom she hardly knows and, while he wishes to but can't afford to marry her, David can't get the approval of his father.a
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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The Darling of New York
Overview: Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-03
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Peggy, Behave!
Overview: Baby Peggy, one of the biggest child stars in movie history, does not disappoint in this charming silent comedy, even though it only exists in fragmentary form. Through the short, she interacts with a number of animals, especially a goose she wants to cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Little Rascal
Overview: The adventures of Baby Peggy in her own house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-24
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Such Is Life
Overview: A feisty homeless orphan girl struggles with winter cold and hunger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-30
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Playmates
Overview: Baby Peggy and Brownie the Dog star in this adorable short.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-18
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Peg o' the Mounted
Overview: A pint-sized Mountie pursues a gang of moonshiners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-27
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The Law Forbids
Overview: Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peggy move to a farm town, while Paul remains in the big city to write a play for actress Inez Lamont, who is in love with him. Peggy knows that her mother still loves Paul, so she flees to the big city to explain the situation to her father.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-07
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Showbiz Kids
Overview: A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
Genres: Documentary History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-14
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Hollywood’s Children
Overview: A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-24
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The Kid Reporter
Overview: The 'secretary' of a busy newspaperman is revealed to be a cherubic small child, Baby Peggy. When a rich woman's pearl necklace is stolen, Baby Peggy's employer promises to make the reporter who cracks the case Editor-in-Chief. The little girl seizes the opportunity, and - several disguises and chases later, with the grudging aid of the office-boy - duly returns with the jewels to achieve promotion, with all the adults scurrying to serve her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-30
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Circus Clowns
Overview: Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-25
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Overview: Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Overview: A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-30
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Miles of Smiles
Overview: In a dual role, Baby Peggy plays the Morgan twins—one who lives with her wealthy parents, and her identical sibling, who is adopted by the impoverished owner of a small-gauge tourist train. Chaos erupts for all concerned when the chase for a lost coin and a case of mistaken identity fortuitously reunites the sisters.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-28
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The Flower Girl
Overview: Fragment of a Baby Peggy short film.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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