Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

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Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

2012

0h 58m

6.6(5 votes)

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Documentary about an extraordinary lady, Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery). In the early 1920s she was one of Hollywood's first major child stars, Baby Peggy.

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Paul Petersen

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