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Baby Peggy : the elephant in the room / Milesone Film & Video ; narration written by Diana Serra Cary and Vera Iwerebor ; directed by Vera Iwerebor.
LIBRA DVD 023 301
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cary, Diana Serra, 1918-2020 screenwriter, actor.
- Cary, Diana Serra.
- Cary, Diana Serra, 1918-2020.
- Child actors--United States--Biography.
- Child actors.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Distribution:
- Harrington Park, NJ : Oscillscope, [2013?]
- Other Title:
- Elephant in the room
- System Details:
- DVD, widescreen, 16:9; Region 1, NTSC.
- digital optical
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- Hollywood discovered Peggy-Jean Montgomery when she was just nineteen months old and made her a star before she was two. By the time she was six, Baby Peggy had become one of the most popular stars in Hollywood. Stores even sold Baby Peggy products. By the age of eleven, she was broke, her money twice stolen by her family. Over the next six decades, this neglected child reinvented herself as Diana Serra Cary, a respected author, film historian and advocate for laws protecting child performers.
- Participant:
- Peggy-Jean Montgomery, Hobart Bosworth, Irene Rich.
- Narrated by Sam West.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Bonus features: Captain January (1924) 64 mins.; Carmen, Jr (1923); Song "That's my baby".
- ISBN:
- 9781933920474
- 1933920475
- OCLC:
- 859621021
- Publisher Number:
- 784148012742
- MILE00127 Oscilloscope Pictures
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