Baby Peggy Reminisces

"It happened quite by accident when my mother took me to Universal Studios to watch a film being made. A film director saw me as he walked past. He needed a very small person to star with Brownie the Wonder Dog," recalls Diana Serra Cary (aka the Baby Peggy of the 1920s).
According to the headline for this Geoffrey MacNab article for The Independent, the 87-year-old Baby Peggy is "the last surviving starlet of the golden age of silent film." Not true. Just ask 95-year-old Anita Page or fellow nonagenarian Barbara Kent.
Also, claims of million-dollar contracts sound like an exaggeration. Baby Peggy was never a superstar, and major stars of the 1920s — with few exceptions such as actor-producers Mary [...]

by Andre Soares | January 12, 2006   
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