Films
The majority of Baby Peggy's films have not survived and records related to their production have been lost. Century Studios burned to the ground in 1926. In addition, another older actress named Peggy Montgomery was active in Hollywood Western films between 1924 and 1929; her credits are occasionally confused with those of Baby Peggy. Filmographies at major websites are incomplete, and sometimes incorrect, because of these facts.
A handful of Baby Peggy shorts, including Playmates, Miles of Smiles and Sweetie have been discovered and preserved in film archives around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The full-length movies The Family Secret, April Fool, Captain January and Helen's Babies have also survived, are in the public domain, and have been restored and made available for sale by several independent film dealers. A full copy of The Law Forbids is also rumored to exist, but has not surfaced publicly. In addition, fragments of some other works, including The Law Forbids, The Darling of New York and Little Red Riding Hood have surfaced and have been restored.
The major highlights of Cary's silent film work are: On With the Show, Playmates and Brownie’s Baby Doll in 1921; Circus Clowns, Little Red Riding Hood, and Peggy, Behave! in 1922; Peg o’ the Movies, Sweetie, Nobody’s Darling, Little Miss Hollywood, The Darling of New York, Helen's Babies, and Hansel and Gretel in 1923.
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“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)