"Whatever Happened
to Baby Peggy? The Autobiography of Hollywood's Pioneer Child
Star"
by Diana Serra Cary (Bear Manor Media, 2008, 347 pages
- originally published by St. Martin's Press, 1996)
To say that this story is engrossing is putting it
mildly! Diana Serra Cary writes with candor and skill about her
life as child star Baby Peggy during the 1920's from being discovered
at 19 months old and reaching super stardom (1.7 million pieces
of fan mail a year) to out-of-work actress by the time she was
seven. The book then traces her astounding success in vaudeville
in the late 1920's to near poverty in the 1930's and beyond. Although
the travails she encountered for 30 years after her Baby Peggy
career were many, the story does have a happy ending. This account
of Mrs. Cary's life is more absorbing than any Hollywood writer
could dream up, and the fact that she is a very adept and accomplished
writer makes her story even more difficult to put down. For the
silent movie fan or any fan of child stars, this book highly recommended.
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