Baby Peggy
Baby Peggy (Baby Peggy), born on October 26, 1918 in Merced, California, was a famous child star in the silent film era and the last living silent child. movie star.
On February 24, 2020, "Baby Peggy" passed away at the age of 101.
Chinese name: Baby Peggy
Foreign name: BabyPeggy
Nationality: United States
Ethnicity: American
< p>Birthplace: Merced, California, United StatesDate of birth: October 26, 1918
Date of death: February 24, 2020
< p>Occupation: ActorAgency: Century Film Company, Universal Pictures
Representative Work: Family Secret
Family Background
Baby Peggy, formerly known as Peggy-Gene Montgomery, was born on October 26, 1918 in Merced, California. Her father, Jack Montgomery, was a cowboy and stuntman in early films and a stunt double for cowboy star Tom Mix.
Acting experience
In 1921, baby Peggy entered the film industry when she was only 2 years old.
At the age of 3, Peggy was signed by Century Films to star in their short films and feature films. She was occasionally loaned out to other productions, such as Marshall Neilan's "Penrod" and "Fools First" in 1922; or in Universal Pictures feature films, such as "The Darling of New York" in 1923.
In 1924, baby Peggy was chosen as the mascot for the Democratic National Convention, standing as a child star on the convention stage to the right of future President Franklin Roosevelt.
In 1924, she starred in the film "Family Secrets" directed by William A. Settle and adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel. Peggy played the daughter of a woman whose parents' marriage Disapproved by his mother's father because of his social status, the film revolves around issues of parental control, pregnancy and class. This film was restored by the Library of Congress. By the time she filmed Family Secrets in 1924, Peggy had starred in more than 40 comedy shorts.
Baby Peggy is the predecessor of the child star Shirley Temple in the 1930s. In 1924, Peggy shot her first movie "Captain January", and Shirley remade it 10 years later. Many of Peggy's comedies were parodies of films made by older stars, in which she imitated famous film actors such as Mary Pickford and Paula Negli.
Peggy's career, and her million-dollar contract with Universal Pictures, came to an abrupt end in 1925 when Baby Peggy's father and manager had a dispute with Peggy's producers.
After the advent of talkies, Page appeared in several smaller roles in films throughout the 1930s before retiring in 1939.
Personal life
Marriage and family
Peggy was married twice and divorced once. In 1954, she married Bob Carey for the second time, and she had a son named Mark.
Later life
Under the pen name Diana Serra Cary, she wrote many autobiographies and biographies about the early history of Hollywood and about child stars, including "Hollywood Poems" , "Kids in Hollywood," and the biography about Jackie Coogan, "Jackie Coogan, King of Boys of the World: Hollywood's Legendary Child Star." In 1996, he published his autobiography "Whatever Happened to Baby Peggy?" 》.
Like Jackie Coogan, most of Peggy's early income was spent by her parents. That was until the passage of the Coogan Act in the 1930s, which required the creation of a trust fund for every child actor in the United States in order to protect their income.
On October 25, 2015, in celebration of Peggy's birthday (she would have turned 97 the next day), Turner Classic Movies aired a restored version of Baby Peggy's early years.