Actor
Baby Peggy
October 29, 1918 · San Diego, California, USA
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 one of the last living film stars 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.
Often works with
Porter Hall
2 titles together
True Confession, Souls at Sea
Frank Currier
2 titles together
The Family Secret, The Darling of New York
Edward Nugent
2 titles together
Ah, Wilderness!, A Girl of the Limberlost
Robert Ellis
2 titles together
A Girl of the Limberlost, The Law Forbids
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Phyllis Ludwig
2 titles together
The Return of Chandu, Eight Girls in a Boat
Full filmography · 33
Having Wonderful Time
as (uncredited)
1938
True Confession
as Autograph Hunter (uncredited)
19376.1
Souls at Sea
as Bit Role (uncredited)
1937
Ah, Wilderness!
as Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
1935
A Girl of the Limberlost
as Schoolgirl
1934
The Return of Chandu
as Judy Allen
19344.8
Eight Girls in a Boat
as Hortense
1934Off His Base
as Peggy
1932
April Fool
as Irma Goodman - a Child
1926
Helen's Babies
as Toddie
1924
The Family Secret
as Peggy Holmes
1924
Captain January
as Captain January
1924