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Baby Peggy Net Worth & Bio/Wiki 2018: Facts Which You Must To Know!
Diana Serra Cary (born October 26, 1918), known as Baby Peggy, was one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent movie era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie. Between 1921 and 1923 she made over 150 shorts for Century Studios. 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 a year salary. 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, Cary found a second career as an author and silent film historian in her later years under the name Diana Serra Cary. She is also the author of several books and has become an advocate for child actors rights.
[talking about her life in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she moved after she left Hollywood] Occasionally even here people find out that I was once a child star, but the name confuses them and they say, "So this is whatever happened to Baby Jane!"
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I see it [her days in motion pictures] as all of a piece. It's kind of like putting a quilt together. Quilt-making is very good because everything becomes equally important and equally valid, and everything forms the core of yourself. So both the good and the bad - I always felt that was the hand life dealt, and I've tried to handle it as best I could. I don't have any rancor or any anger or anything toward anyone
or toward Hollywood. Even when it was happening, I realized it was
nobody's fault, but you get hurt in spite of that. But I'm very peaceful about it."
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Has had a long association with the historic Vista Theater in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. As a four-year-old, she participated in the theater's opening ceremony in 1923. It has been refurbished and reopened twice, and Peggy appeared at both re-openings. In 2003, during the Silverlake Silent Film Festival, Peggy's handprints were made (Chinese Theater-style) in the entrance of the theater.
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Honored at a 90th Birthday Bash at the Edison Theatre in Niles, California; on Saturday 8 November 2008, two of her features, Helen's Babies (1924) and Captain January (1924), along with several of her short comedies, were shown, each of them introduced by Baby Peggy. The next day, on Sunday afternoon 9 November 2008, a Q&A session with author David Stenn completed the celebration. [November 2008]
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Writer of Hollywood history under the name Diana Serra Cary.
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Son Mark was born in 1961. She had previously been told that she couldn't have children. She also has a granddaughter who strongly resembles her.
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In 2012 a campaign was started to get Baby Peggy a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame via Indiegogo.
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In 2012 a documentary on her life was released, "Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room".
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Interviewed as one of 31 former child stars "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (But Don't Have Sex or Take the Car)" by Moore, Dickie (984, Harper & Row).
She was named the mascot of the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York, and stood on stage waving a flag next to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Has an older sister, called Louise or, occasionally, Jackie, who was legally named Jack-Louise.
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She reportedly made at least $2 million in her early career but her parents' bad management and free spending left her in poverty. This resulted in several nervous breakdowns in her young adulthood.
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Interviewed in "Growing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television" by Tom Goldrup and Jim Goldrup (McFarland, 2002).
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Birth name is sometimes erroneously reported as "Margaret Montgomery." In her autobiography, Diana Serra Cary confirms that her real name was in fact Peggy-Jean, and that the suggestion of the name Margaret was actively rejected by her parents.
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