“Baby Peggy” turns 95 years old on October 26. In 1921, at the age of 19 months, tiny Peggy Montgomery was pitched by her parents into one of the more remarkable careers in silent film, one in which she became the only kid rival to Jackie Coogan (of Chaplin’s “The Kid”). She became one of the first branded, merchandised movie stars and a figure who personified the disposable child-actor phenomenon -- and a kind of spontaneous combustion of celebrity that’s isn’t limited to any one era.Known for the much better part of a century as Diana Serra Cary, an author, historian, authority on child stars and her own strange filmography, she is the centerpiece of “Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room,” which gets a DVD release from the esteemed revivalists Milestone Film & Video on Nov. 5 and proves that people can survive stardom, albeit with a few dings. “I...
- 10/25/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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