Diana Serra Cary Net Worth, spouse, young children, awards, movies

$2,000,000

Diana Serra Cary net worth is approximately $2 million. She is famously known as Baby Peggy and one of the successful American child stars in Hollywood’s earliest silent movie era. Grouped with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie, she was however able to amass a great deal of wealth that could sustain her even afterward.

Key facts:

Diana Serra Cary, also known as Baby Peggy, was one of the three major American child stars during the Hollywood silent movie era.

She starred in more than 150 shorts for Century Studios between 1921 and 1923, and she was called "The Million Dollar Baby" for making $1.5 million dollars a year.

Despite her success, she later became poor and worked as an extra in the 193s, after which she became an author and a silent film historian using her real name.

Baby Peggy became an advocate for child actors' rights and authored seven books.

In 2012, Turner Classic Movies presented a documentary called "Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room," and on her 90th birthday, she was honored at the Edison Theatre in Niles, California.

Basic Information About Diana Serra Cary

Category	Celebrities › Actors
Professions	Actor
Net worth	$2,000,000
Date of birth	1918-10-26 (106 years old)
Place of birth	Merced
Nationality	United States of America
Gender	Female
Social Media	↗︎ Wikipedia

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Diana Serra Cary's photos

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1/ Filename: babypeggy-5G2X1psw.jpg

Checked: ✅ Yes (2023-07-02 03:03:37)
Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BabyPeggy.jpg
Original Source: Probert Encyclopaedia
Author: Universal Pictures
Date taken: 1924

2/ Filename: diana-serra-cary-jun-1922-eh-C11632Tz.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diana_Serra_Cary_-_Jun_1922_EH.jpg
Original Source: Exhibitors Herald (Apr. - Jun. 1922) on the Internet Archive
Author: Unknown photographer
Date taken: 24 June 1922

3/ Filename: baby-peggy-with-frances-gene-quirk-of-n-y-at-w-h-i-e-white-house-washington-d-c-2-2-25-lccn2016850023-74N3nz77.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baby_Peggy_with_Frances_%26_Gene_Quirk_of_N.Y._at_W.H._(i.e.,_White_House,_Washington,_D.C.),_2-2-25_LCCN2016850023.jpg
Original Source:
Library of Congress
- Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016850023
- Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/npcc/26600/26689v.jpg
- Original url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016850023/
Author: National Photo Company Collection
Date taken: 1925

4/ Filename: baby-peggy-2012-07-01-090im99D.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baby-Peggy_2012-07-01.jpg
Original Source: Own work
Author: Gazebo
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Date taken: 1 July 2012

5/ Filename: circus-clowns-1922-poster-1L0i31ct.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circus-Clowns-1922-Poster.jpg
Original Source: Source
Author: Century Film / Universal Pictures
Date taken: 1922

6/ Filename: film-daily-cover-september-3-1922-6NxA3dJ5.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Film_Daily_cover_-_September_3_1922.jpg
Original Source: The Film Daily
Author: The Film Daily / Universal Pictures
Date taken: 3 September 1922

7/ Filename: helen-s-babies-baby-peggy-edition-mt68mDT3.jpg

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Source URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Helen%27s_Babies,_Baby_Peggy_edition.jpeg
Original Source: http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/072788a9
Author: Unknown artist
Date taken: 1924