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Diana SERRA CARY's Hollywood career is atypical of many a child star. Discovered at 20 months and dubbed Baby Peggy, she quickly became a superstar only to be washed up by age 8.
At the Silver Lake Film Festival's closing ceremony next Thursday, Cary will be the party's special guest as part of a night celebrating the 80th birthday of the venerable Vista Theatre in Los Feliz. The very first film to play at the theater was a two-reel comedy, "Tips," starring the silent screen child superstar.
Cary will leave her handprints in the Vista's Walk of Fame and speak about the silent era before a screening of two of her movies, "The Cub Reporter" and "Captain January."
Now a well-respected author on Hollywood, she will also sign copies of her latest book, "Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King," a fellow silent film child star.
"I opened the Vista when I was 4 years old," says Cary, now 84. "It was a rather low-key [premiere]. It was a neighborhood theater even then. 'Tips' was...