Popular child star of the 20s; the Shirley Temple of her day. The daughter of a screen extra and stuntman, she entered films at age three and before reaching 10 starred in numerous two-reelers and more than a dozen features. Her popularity gradually diminished as she neared adolescence, but she continued appearing in films, mainly low-budget Westerns, under her full name, Peggy Montgomery, well into her late teens. Since retiring from the screen in the mid-30s, she has worked variously as a free-lance journalist, store manager, and executive of a greeting card company. In 1975 she authored, under a pseudonym, The Hollywood Posse, a book about the screen's cowboy extras and stuntmen. In 1979 she published Hollywood Children, an exposé on child stars. Her first husband was Gordon "Freckles" Ayres, at one time a popular member of the Our Gang comedy series.

Filmography Baby Peggy

1922   PEGGY BEHAVE       

1923   THE DARLING OF NEW YORK

1923   HOLLYWOOD 

1924   CAPTAIN JANUARY   

1924   THE FAMILY SECRET

1924   HELEN'S BABIES      

1924   THE LAW FORBIDS   

1924   RAINBOW RANGERS  

1925   FIGHTING COURAGE 

1925   THE SPEED DEMON  

1926   APRIL FOOL  

1926   THE DANGEROUS DUB        

1926   THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

1926   LOOKING FOR TROUBLE      

1926   PRISONERS OF THE STORM

1927   THE DESERT OF THE LOST 

1927   SENSATION SEEKERS         

1927   THE SONORA KID     

1928   ARIZONA DAYS       

1928   SADDLE MATES       

1928   SILENT TRAIL

1929   FIGHTERS OF THE SADDLE  

1934   EIGHT GIRLS IN A BOAT