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Mar 16, 2018 · John Leslie “Jackie” Coogan was born to a theater family on October 26, 1914, in Los Angeles. He appeared on stage before he could walk or talk. The silent-film superstar Charlie Chaplin discovered young Jackie performing in vaudeville and cast him in a small role in A Day’s Pleasure, when the boy was just four years old.
Mar 2, 1984 · Jackie Coogan, 69, whose performance as a sad-eyed street urchin alongside Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid" melted the hearts of silent-film audiences and helped make him Hollywood's first major child ...
Feb 2, 2024 · Chaplin, however, was undeterred and the film became a worldwide hit, with much praise being given to his dual performance with Jackie Coogan, who was five years old at the time of shooting. The boy’s overnight success was immediately followed by another starring role as a lovable waif in Oliver Twist (1922), where he gave a scene-stealing ...
Jackie Coogan, though badly injured, was the sole survivor of the accident. He would later call it the single saddest day of his life. When he wanted the money that he made as a child star in the 1920s his mother and stepfather refused his request and Jackie filed suit for the approximately $4 million that he had made.
Jackie Coogan broke out as Charlie Chaplin's miniature sidekick in The Kid, then ended his career as the zappy Uncle Fester of The Addams Family. But there is a sinister twist to his life story, and, contrary to his famous films and shows, this one is R-rated. Get ready for some startling facts about Jackie Coogan.
Jackie Coogan enlisted in the Army on March 4, 1941. When the U.S. entered World War II as a result of the Pearl Harbor attack, Coogan requested transfer to the AAF as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. He was sent to glider school at Lubbock, Texas, and Twentynine Palms, Calif. Upon graduation, he was made a Flight Officer.
Sep 1, 2004 · 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.