Santussa is sent to New York to be cared by for her grandfather. She is sent with jewels, and after being separated from her nurse, is cared for by gangsters.Santussa is sent to New York to be cared by for her grandfather. She is sent with jewels, and after being separated from her nurse, is cared for by gangsters.Santussa is sent to New York to be cared by for her grandfather. She is sent with jewels, and after being separated from her nurse, is cared for by gangsters.
Baby Peggy
- Santussa
- (as Baby Peggy Montgomery)
Frank Coghlan Jr.
- The Ross Kid
- (as Junior Coughlan)
Spec O'Donnell
- Willie
- (as Walter 'Spec' O'Donnell)
Bertram Anderson-Smith
- Bice
- (as Anderson Smith)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn one climactic scene, Santussa (Baby Peggy) escapes from a burning room. According to Diana Serra Cary (the actress), who describes the shoot in her autobiography, Santussa's on-screen panic was real. When the scene was filmed, all of the windows and doors to the room set were ignited, including, accidentally, the one that was to have been her escape route. Without a safe exit and without guidance from neither the director nor her father on the other side of the camera, the 3½-year-old was forced to carefully climb over a burning windowsill to leave the set.
- GoofsDuring the climactic fire sequence at the end of the film, the fire is intercut with footage of horse-drawn fire trucks racing to the rescue. The footage of the fire trucks is clearly footage shot during the day, but the fire takes place at night.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
Featured review
What was ours is ours again
No, this lost film has not mysteriously turned up in a meat locker in Alice Springs, a barn in the Faroes Islands nor even in the Gosfilmfond Archives, where a mutilated version was used to educate good Communists on how capitalists try to burn up small babies for profit. Tom Stathes found a Kodascope copy of the last reel at a flea market.
There was an exciting escape from a fire, some recovered smuggled diamonds and an opportunity for Max Davidson to do some of his lovely pained reaction takes. It looks like a good production and Baby Peggy -- who is still alive and well as of the writing of this review -- remembers the shooting of the fire scene and her unwillingness, despite the urging of the director and her father, to go through the fire. She may have been young, but she was no fool.
So keep on going to those garage sales and flea markets, folks. There are lots of things still missing and maybe we can find them yet.
There was an exciting escape from a fire, some recovered smuggled diamonds and an opportunity for Max Davidson to do some of his lovely pained reaction takes. It looks like a good production and Baby Peggy -- who is still alive and well as of the writing of this review -- remembers the shooting of the fire scene and her unwillingness, despite the urging of the director and her father, to go through the fire. She may have been young, but she was no fool.
So keep on going to those garage sales and flea markets, folks. There are lots of things still missing and maybe we can find them yet.
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- Runtime1 hour
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was The Darling of New York (1923) officially released in Canada in English?
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