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Jackie Coogan: Child
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Soon after Coogan turned 21, he asked his mother for the money that had allegedly been held in trust for him. He had earned at least four million dollars over the course of his career. She refused, arguing that parents were entitled to all of their children's earnings. He was completely cut off by her, and given only $1000. Coogan's mother lived in a house that he had paid for with her second husband, Arthur Bernstein, the family's lawyer and financial advisor. As Coogan considered his options, he began a vaudeville tour in 1936-37.
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Coogan didn't think that the two years he spent playing Uncle Fester were "glory days." He used to say that he had been America's most loved child star and now people thought of him as a monster.
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In the summer of 1935 Betty met and fell in love with former child star Jackie Coogan. The publicity of this union made Betty's name a household word. Her and Coogan were given a contract with Fanchon and & Marco booking agency for a cross-country touring show called Hollywood Secrets. In this show, one of the sketches the couple appeared as movie stars on an authentic Hollywood set and would show the audience how it was all done. It was very well received. Had RKO had the foresight, they would have given Betty a better part in Follow The Fleet, which she finished filming right before the tour.
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After suffering from heart and kidney ailments, Coogan succumbed to heart failure on March 1, 1984, in Santa Monica, California. He was survived by fourth wife, Dorothea Lamphere and four children: Anthony, Chris, Joan, and Leslie. Later, one grandson, Keith Coogan, came to some prominence as a young actor in his own right.
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Tragedy struck in 1935 when Coogan's father was killed in a car crash that ... claimed the life of best friend Junior Durkin, a child actor best known as "Huckleberry Finn" in two films of the early 1930s. Just short of his twenty-first birthday, Jackie was the sole survivor of the accident.
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King's paper about Coogan and child consumerism has already been published. King ... submitted the paper in application for two fellowships-and won both. King will use the second award to write about Mack Sennett's bathing beauties and early models of femininity and seaside resorts.
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