CELEBRITIES YOU THOUGHT ARE LONG GONE BUT THEY’RE STILL ALIVE AND KICKING
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By Ami Ciccone
Diana Serra Cary – 100, $2 million
Diana Serra Cary is best known as ‘Baby Peggy’ and was even dubbed “the million-dollar baby,” regarding the fact that she had an annual salary of $1.5 million at the time. She pioneered as a child star and she appeared in 150 short films between 1921 and 1923 alone.
In spite of her success and incredible income, she ended up in a financial rut, as her parents had spent all her fortune. By the ‘30s, she was working as an extra. Later, Cary nurtured her interest in history and writing by becoming an author and historian of silent films. She became an advocate for child actors’ rights as well.
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