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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 Pecks 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 Worlds 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 Coogans parents, whose behavior served as an unfortunate model for countless others who sought fame and fortune through their childrens 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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FILMMAKERS SERIES

edited by

ANTHONY SLIDE

1. James Whale, by James Curtis. 1982

2. Cinema Stylists, by John Belton. 1983

3. Harry Langdon, by William Schelly. 1982

4. William A. Wellman, by Frank Thompson. 1983

5. Stanley Donen, by Joseph Casper. 1983

6. Brian De Palma, by Michael Bliss. 1983

7. J. Stuart Blackton, by Marian Blackton Trimble. 1985

8. Martin Scorsese and Michael Cimino, by Michael Bliss. 1985

9. Franklin J. Schaffner, by Erwin Kim. 1985

10. D. W. Griffith and the Biography Company, by Cooper C. Graham et al. 1985.

11. Some Day Well Laugh: An Autobiography, by Ester Ralston. 1985

12. The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blach, 2nd ed., translated by Roberta and Simone Blach. 1996

13. Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia, by Cooper C. Graham. 1986

14. Robert Florey, by Brian Taves. 1987

15. Henry Kings America, by Walter Coppedge. 1986

16. Aldous Huxley and Film, by Virginia M. Clark. 1987

17. Five American Cinematographers, by Scott Eyman. 1987

18. Cinematographers on the Art and Craft of Cinematography, by Anna Kate Sterling. 1987

19. Stars of the Silents, by Edward Wagenknecht. 1987

20. Twentieth Century-Fox, by Aubrey Solomon. 1988

21. Highlights and Shadows: The Memoirs of a Hollywood Cameraman, by Charles G. Clarke. 1989

22. I Went That-a-Way: The Memoirs of a Western Film Director, by Harry L. Fraser; edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Audrey Brown Fraser. 1990

23. Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter, by Robert C. Cumbow. 1990 (out of print; see No. 70)

24. The Films of Freddie Francis, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1991

25. Hollywood Be Thy Name, by William Bakewell. 1991

26. The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1991

27. Lionheart in Hollywood: The Autobiography of Henry Wilcoxon, with Katherine Orrison. 1991

28. William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier, by Bruce Long. 1991

29. The Films of Leni Riefenstahl, 2nd ed., by David B. Hinton. 1991

30. Hollywood Holyland: The Filming and Scoring of The Greatest Story Ever Told, by Ken Darby. 1992

31. The Films of Reginald LeBorg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1992

32. Memoirs of a Professional Cad, by George Sanders, with Tony Thomas. 1992

33. The Holocaust in French Film, by Andr Pierre Colombat. 1993

34. Robert Goldstein and The Spirit of 76, edited and compiled by Anthony Slide. 1993

35. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood with David O. Selznick and Others, by Paul Macnamara. 1993

36. The Creative Producer, by David Lewis, edited by James Curtis. 1993

37. Reinventing Reality: The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian, by Mark Spergel. 1993

38. Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 19151948, by Ruth Anne Dwyer. 1997

39. Beyond Hollywoods Grasp: American Filmmakers Abroad, 19141945, by Harry Waldman. 1994

40. A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point, by Rose Hobart. 1994

41. Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer, by Shelley Green. 1994

42. Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company, by Harry Carey Jr. 1994

43. Strangers in Hollywood: A History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II, by Hans J. Wollstein. 1994

44. Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups, by Georgia Hale, edited with an introduction and notes by Heather Kiernan. 1995

45. The Word Made Flesh: Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese, by Michael Bliss. 1995

46. W. S. Van Dykes Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (19271928) and other Van Dyke on Van Dyke, edited and annotated by Rudy Behlmer. 1996

47. Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 19501980, by Randall D. Larson. 1996

48. Directing: Learn from the Masters, by Tay Garnett. 1996

49. Featured Player: An Oral Autobiography of Mae Clarke, edited with an introduction by James Curtis. 1996

50. A Great Lady: A Life of the Screenwriter Sonya Levien, by Larry Ceplair. 1996

51. A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, by Denis Meikle. 1996

52. The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers, by Scott Salwolke. 1997

53. From Oz to E.T.: Wally Worsleys Half-Century in HollywoodA Memoir in Collaboration with Sue Dwiggins Worsley, edited by Charles Ziarko. 1997

54. Thorold Dickinson and the British Cinema, by Jeffrey Richards. 1997

55. The Films of Oliver Stone, edited by Don Kunz. 1997

56. Before, In and After Hollywood: The Autobiography of Joseph E. Henabery, edited by Anthony Slide. 1997

57. Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian, compiled by Anthony Slide. 1997

58. Smile When the Raindrops Fall, by Brian Anthony and Andy Edmonds. 1998

59. Joseph H. Lewis: Overview, Interview, and Filmography, by Francis M. Nevins. 1998

60. September Song: An Intimate Biography of Walter Huston, by John Weld. 1998

61. Wife of the Life of the Party, by Lita Grey Chaplin and Jeffrey Vance. 1998

62. Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird: A Documentary in Letters of Eric Knight, by Geoff Gehman. 1998

63. On Actors and Acting: Essays by Alexander Knox, edited by Anthony Slide. 1998

64. Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies, by Maurice Rapf. 1999

65. Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood: My Early Life and Career in Sound Recording at Columbia with Frank Capra and Others, by Edward Bernds. 1999.

66. Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life: A Hollywood Master of Music for the Movies, edited by Linda Danly. 1999

67. Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist, by Anthony Slide. 1999

68. My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer, by Jean Drum and Dale D. Drum. 1999

69. Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe, by Jerry Ziesmer. 1999

70. Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter, 2nd ed., by Robert C. Cumbow. 2000

71. Making Music with Charlie Chaplin, by Eric James. 2000

72. An Open Window: The Cinema of Victor Erice, edited by Linda C. Ehrlich. 2000

73. Satyajit Ray: In Search of the Modern, by Suranjan Ganguly. 2000

74. Voices from the Set: The Film Heritage Interviews, edited by Tony Macklin and Nick Pici. 2000

75. Paul Landres: A Directors Stories, by Francis M. Nevins. 2000

76. No Film in My Camera, by Bill Gibson. 2000

77. Saved from Oblivion: An Autobiography, by Bernard Vorhaus. 2000

78. Wolf Mans Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer, by Curt Siodmak. 2001

79. An Actor, and a Rare One: Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, by Tony Earnshaw. 2001

80. Picture Perfect, by Herbert L. Strock. 2000

81. Peter Greenaways Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema, edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi and Mary Alemany Galway. 2001

82. Member of the Crew, by Winfrid Kay Thackrey. 2001

83. Barefoot on Barbed Wire, by Jimmy Starr. 2001

84. Henry Hathaway: A Directors Guild of America Oral History

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