
San Diego, California, USA
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 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. 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.
as Baby Peggy Montgomery

as Herself
2011
1924

as Baby Peggy Montgomery
1923

as Self
2007

as Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
1935

as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
2020

as Self
1982
1923

as Captain January
1924
as Baby Peggy
1922

as Gretel
1923

as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
1989
as Herself
2012

as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
2020

as Herself
2012

as Herself
2012

as Herself
2011

as Self
2007

as Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'
1999

as Self (as Diana Serra Cary)
1989

as Self
1982

as (uncredited)
1938

as Autograph Hunter (uncredited)
1937

as Bit Role (uncredited)
1937

as Girl at Graduation (uncredited)
1935

as Schoolgirl
1934

as Judy Allen
1934

as Hortense
1934
as Peggy
1932

as Self
1932

as Self
1927

as Irma Goodman - a Child
1926

as Toddie
1924

as Peggy Holmes
1924

as Captain January
1924
1924

as Peggy
1924