Baby Peggy

[pbma]

I recently found out about Baby Peggy and that she was apparently the Shirley Temple of the '20s and was surprised to find out that she is still with us in her 95th year,

From what I've seen, Baby Peggy was everything Shirley wasn't; she had real charm, really could act, and yet now is only remembered by a few. The best of her work that I have seen (Many titles do not survive, and were poverty row productions that were never properly even catalogued) is the silent version of Captain January, opposite movie veteran Hobart Bosworth. Needless to say, the rights were bought up and the film remade as a saccharine 1930's musical starring...guess who. Helen's Babies is another fine film - Baby Peggy is top-billed, with Clara Bow and Edward Everett Horton next down the list, which indicates the regard in which she was held at the time.

[silentfilm]

The Milestone DVD of her films has just been released. It includes a documentary on her.

[Jeff Crouse]

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Diana Serra Cary in the summer of 2012 and afterwards wrote an extensive interview of her that recently got published in the journal Film International. The 18-page piece even make the cover feature, and was published in Issue 62, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2013. In it she reveals aspects of her life and career not discussed before, and, among other things, corrects the widespread error of what was actually her first film. Here's how the cover/issue turned out:

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Currently I'm transcribing an interview I conducted earlier this month with another silent film actress, Lassie Lou Ahern.

Jeff