Oscilloscope Laboratories
has tabbed Nov. 5 as the DVD release date for Milestone Film & Video
production of documentary filmmaker Vera Iwerebor’s Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the
Room.
The story of Peggy-Jean
Montgomery’s (aka: Baby Peggy) film career is something of a horror story. The star of over 150 short and feature
films, you would have expected her to be rich and famous … instead, by 11 years
of age she was broke, her family had mismanaged her fortune (stock market crash
of 1929 added to it) and she was virtually out of the business as a teenager.
Blacklisted, ridiculed
and burned out, Baby Peggy seemed destined for a sad ending, but she overcame
it all to become a successful publisher and writer (as Diana Serra Cary) and a
major advocate for laws related to children working in the entertainment
industry. Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the
Room is that story ... a story of both failure and success; a
fascinating look at “Hollywood.”
Bonus features include
the 1924 silent film, Captain January (opposite Hobart
Bosworth and Irene Rich), and three of her surviving silent short films (most
were lost to a 1926 studio fire) — Baby Peggy: Carmen, Jr. (1923), Peg
O’ the Mounted (1924) and Such is Life (1924).
To download this week's
complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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