BABY PEGGY, THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Diana Serra Cary got her first big break at 19 months, becoming an actress in silent films and becoming, along with Jackie Cooper, one of the most popular child stars in the then-young history of Hollywood. As “Baby Peggy,” the youngster was such a phenomenon that, in 1923 alone, she later claimed to have gotten 1.7 million pieces of fan mail. This 2011 one-hour biography tells her story – and, as TCM usually does, follows the documentary with some of the films covered in the nonfiction study. First up, at 9 p.m. ET: Captain January, a 1924 silent film later remade, in 1936, by another young actress who did okay for herself as a screen star: Shirley Temple.