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Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King - A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King - A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
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Discovered by Charlie Chaplin in 1919, four-year-old Jackie Coogan
soared to overnight stardom for his title role in the silent
masterpiece, The Kid. A string of successes followed, including
Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, and A Boy of Flanders, earning Coogan
a fortune of four million dollars. Dubbed "The Millionaire Kid" by
the press, he later had to sue his parents in a futile attempt to
recover his squandered fortune. His later years were marked with
penury and the cruel diminishment of his childhood fame. As an
adult, he found work in character roles and gained unexpected but
fleeting fame as "Uncle Fester" in the series The Addams Family. He
continued to make guest appearances on television until his death
in 1984. In Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King, Diana Serra Cary
reveals the little-known and even less understood private life of
this famous child star and his dysfunctional family. She looks at
the highs and lows of an actor who reached the height of fame
before ten and whose subsequent career took an inevitable fall.
Cary also examines the conduct of Coogan's parents, whose behavior
served as an unfortunate model for countless others who sought fame
and fortune through their children's success. The author, a major
child star (the former Baby Peggy), employs her own hard-won
insight to explore the career and family woes of another in this
fascinating account about one of the greatest child stars of all
time. Includes more than 30 photos.
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