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Hollywood S Children
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Author : Diana Serra Cary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Hollywood S Children written by Diana Serra Cary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Child actors categories.
Diana Serra Cary's well-wrought, empathetic narrative presents the underside of the glittering stage and screen world: frightened children, merchants who buy and sell childhood as a commodity, rapacious stage mothers and fathers whose ambition and avarice make them willing to sacrifice their children to fulfill their own dreams. The first part of the book mines a lode of new information, recounting stories of the precursors to Hollywood's child stars (and their ambitious parents) - the spectacular 1853 stage debut of four-year-old Cordelia Howard, the rise of red-haired Lotta Crabtree in California's Gold Rush camps, and the travails and triumphs of the hoydenish Elsie Janis as she ad-libbed her way to stardom. Cary - as "Baby Peggy", Hollywood's pioneer child star, the youngest in theatrical history - has lived her subject, surviving a childhood filled with an enormous workload, some real physical danger, and emotional trauma. She weaves her own story of being her family's chief breadwinner with similar tales involving famous movie children she knew and worked with - Jackie Coogan, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, and Judy Garland, among many others.
The Hollywood Kid
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Author : Oscar Martinez
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Hollywood Kid written by Oscar Martinez and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Political Science categories.
The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country’s civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world’s deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward. The Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan José Martínez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing—a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members—until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.
The Hollywood Kid
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Author : Maia Wojciechowska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Hollywood Kid written by Maia Wojciechowska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Children's stories, American categories.
An aloof and bitter 15 year-old tries to choose between leaving home in order to discover himself or staying with his recently widowed mother, a famous movie actress.
Hollywood Kid
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Author : Maia Wojiechowska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Hollywood Kid written by Maia Wojiechowska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
The Hollywood Kid
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Author : Maia Wojciechowska
language : en
Publisher: Harpercollins
Release Date : 1966-06-01
The Hollywood Kid written by Maia Wojciechowska and has been published by Harpercollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-06-01 with Family life categories.
An aloof and bitter 15 year-old tries to choose between leaving home in order to discover himself or staying with his recently widowed mother, a famous movie actress.
Hollywood Kids
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Author : Jackie Collins
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1995-07
Hollywood Kids written by Jackie Collins and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07 with Fiction categories.
The adult children of Hollywood's most successful make their own rules until journalist Kennedy Chase and detective Michael Scorsinni expose the sordid side of their lives.
Jackie Coogan The World S Boy King
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Author : Diana Serra Cary
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2004-09-01
Jackie Coogan The World S Boy King written by Diana Serra Cary and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Children Of Hollywood
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Author : Michelle Vogel
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2005-03-30
Children Of Hollywood written by Michelle Vogel and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Living in the shadow of a famous parent can have powerful effects, from professional opportunities to pressure so great it leads to suicide. Some children of stars are proud of their roots while others live in secrecy. This is a rare look into the private lives of the children (and, in a few cases, grandchildren) of these classic Hollywood icons, revealing the stresses and inspirations of living with great performers who may or may not have been great parents. Some movie stars protected their offspring, but others used them as publicity props or even made them into rivals. Despite their unusual upbringing, some of the children succeeded in the movies or elsewhere, but many never lived up to the public expectations. Many lost their parents, whether to the extremes of the celebrity lifestyle, to divorce, or to their careers. From the beautiful bedtime stories Harpo Marx and his wife told their four adopted children to explain where they'd come from, to the studded belt Bing Crosby used to punish his sons for not obeying the strict family rules, this work tells the best and worst of growing up in a celebrity home. Families covered include those of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Eddie Cantor, Mario Lanza, Ruth Hussey, Jerry Lewis, Douglas Fairbanks and Boris Karloff. Research is drawn from interviews with celebrity offspring, who also provided never-before-published snapshots of Hollywood legends at home.
The Hollywood Kid
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Author : Oscar Martinez
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Hollywood Kid written by Oscar Martinez and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Political Science categories.
The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country’s civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world’s deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward. The Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan José Martínez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing—a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members—until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.
Star Babies
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Author : Raymond Strait
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Release Date : 2016-11-20
Star Babies written by Raymond Strait and has been published by Crossroad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Being the child of a celebrity is a strange, but wonderful experience, and STAR BABIES explores this glamorous and sometimes tragic world. It's all here in this book: the fabulous birthday parties, the "limosine treatment" to school, the lemonade stand set up and supplied by the butler, the Christmas sprees to clean out the toy department. And behind this facade is a history of family trees shattered by the worlds, "Your father and I are going to get a divorce," strings of schools, and adventures with drugs and sex. Shared is a blind adoration for a famous parent, tempered by desperate craving for love and attention. These children were the first generation to plant before the moviegoing public the image of Hollywood as a family town. Maternity became marketable, and photos of stars with their wholesome families were worth their weight in gold. Image! In Hollywood, it is everything. Extraordinary in their candor and diversity, these stories reveal all of their dreams—and the delusions—that money can buy. No moviegoer should be without this intimate and unique portrait of life behind the silver screen. Includes the children of: Mario Lanza, Judy Garland and Sid Luft, Pat Boone, Tom Mix, Dorothy Lamour, David O. Selznick, Lou Costello, Jack Albertson, Lloyd Bridges, Gordon and Sheila MacRae, Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.