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Monday, March 28, 2011

Baby Peggy

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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1920s child star of the silent screen Baby Peggy

"...the apotheosis of the immigrants' dream.  To an audience of predominantly illiterate or newly arrived residents of this country, she embodied the hopes and dreams that this could happen to them."

alas her tale ends like so many other child stars in saddened disappointment.

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