Beschreibung:
Former child actor Paul Petersen once said, ""Fame is a dangerous drug and should be kept out of the reach of children."" It is certainly true that many child actors have fallen prey to the dangers of fame and suffered for it later in life, but others have used fame to their advantage and gone on to even more successful careers in adulthood. This work is a compilation of interviews with 39 men and women who, as children, worked in the motion picture industry in Hollywood. They all handled their childhood celebrity differently. Lee Aaker, Mary Badham, Baby Peggy, Sonny Bupp, Ted Donaldson, Edith Fellows, Gary Gray, Jimmy Hunt, Eilene Janssen, Marcia Mae Jones, Sammy McKim, Roger Mobley, Gigi Perreau, Jeanne Russell, Frankie Thomas, Beverly Washburn, Johnny Whitaker, and Jane Withers are among those interviewed. They talk candidly about their experiences on and off the set, the people they worked with, and what they did after their careers ended. The pros and cons of being a child actor and the effects that it had on them later in life are discussed at great length.
Lee Aaker; Phillip Alford; Baby Peggy; Mary Badham; Sonny Bupp; Michael Chapin; Ted Donaldson; George Ernest; Richard Eyer; Edith Fellows; Billy Gray; Gary Gray; Jimmy Hawkins; Billy Hughes; Jimmy Hunt; Teddy Infuhr; Tommy Ivo; Eilene Janssen; Claude Jarman, Jr; Marcia Mae Jones; Mickey Kuhn; Gordon Lee; Sammy Mckim; Shirley Mills; Roger Mobley; Larry Olsen; Gigi Perreau; Jon Provost; Gene Reynolds; Bryan Russell; Jeanne Russell; Mickey Sholdar; Frankie Thomas; Leon Tyler; Beverly Washburn; Bobs Watson; Delmar Watson; Johnny Whitaker; Jane Withers.