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Jackie Coogan: Charlie Chaplin
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American actor Jackie Coogan belonged to a family of vaudevillians. At age four Coogan was already a stage attraction performing with his father when he caught the eye of Charles Chaplin, who immediately hired him (and his father as well).
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Jackie Coogan was discovered by Charlie Chaplin and starred when he was seven in Chaplain's The Kid. Just four years later, Coogan who was receiving a whopping salary of $25,000 a week, starred in The Rag Man--a sentimental feel-good comedy about the odd couple orphan Irish child and the elderly Jewish junk man teaming up to make a go of it in New York City during the 1920s. Great on nostalgia for seeing how the city looked back then, but weak on offering anything but a schmaltzy narrative. This is the same Jackie Coogan who from 1964 to 1966 became known again as a star playing Uncle Fester in the television sit-com of The Addams Family.
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Coogan spent the first three years of his life primarily in the care of relatives, though he did appear in one film with his mother as an infant, Skinner's Baby (1917). When he was a toddler, his parents took him on the road with them. Coogan started to do imitations and dance steps, and his father brought him on stage one night for a curtain call. The audience's response to Coogan's charming appearances compelled the tour promoter to insist that young Coogan became part of the act, for which the family was paid extra. When the vaudeville show made its way to Los Angeles, upand-coming director/comedian Charlie Chaplin caught the act. Chaplin was looking for a child actor and decided that young Coogan fit the bill.
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Keith Coogan is the grandson of Jackie Coogan--child star of silent movies (including The Kid w/Charlie Chaplin). Jackie ... played Uncle Fester in the original TV show The Addams Family. [Thanks to Jen]
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JACKIE COOGAN made his first appearance on the screen with Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid" at the age of four and a half, and met with instant success. He made his first starring picture, "Peck's Bad Boy," under the management of Sol Lesser. Jackie Coogan can well be acclaimed the most popular child in the world today. He was born in Los Angeles, California, October 26, 1914. Both his father and mother were on the stage, and at one time Jackie appeared in an Annette Kellerman act. It was while in this performance that Chaplin discovered him.
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This is a wonderful vintage saxophone that belonged to the well known actor Jackie Coogan. For those old enough to remember, Jackie Coogan first gained fame starring with Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid" (1921), and was later known as Uncle Fester on the television series, "The Addams Family," in the 1960's, along with many other movies in between. He apparently ... played the saxophone and promoted the Holton Saxophone as seen in the partial ad clipping below (ad NOT included). His saxophone was almost as big as he was when this ad came out in the 20's.
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