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Feb 29, 2024 · February 29, 2024 · 16 min read. 1. Jackie Coogan with Joan Crawford in 1925 - Getty. Six-year-old Jackie Coogan, who became an instant global star for his performance in Charlie Chaplin’s...
Mar 2, 1984 · Jackie Coogan, who in 1919 became the first major child star in American movie history as the sad-eyed foundling in ''The Kid,'' died after a heart attack yesterday at the Santa Monica (Calif.)...
Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars. Hollywood adored child stars like Jackie Coogan and Diana Serra Cary, but failed to protect them. Ellen Walker | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 2 February 2024. Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature film, The Kid (1921), remains one of the great masterpieces of silent cinema.
