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Jackie Coogan: The World's Boy King: A Biography of Hollywood's Legendary Child Star (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series, 100) (Volume 100)
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.
Jackie coogan biography book
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