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"Jackie Coogan promoted new patterns of child spending," King says. Because the young actor usually played a penniless orphan, he was associated with a Victorian social concern for helping the urban poor. That made him an acceptable icon to bridge the gap between the old vision of childhood, as a time for discipline and restraint, and a new image "based on spending, spontaneity, playfulness, and cheekiness."
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Huge scrapbooks of news clippings recording the early success of child star Jackie Coogan. A letter from silent star and film producer Mack Sennett politely asking card-playing chums to pay up their gambling debts. And a grocery list Sennett's mother sent her famous son. These are among the treasures that Rob King, graduate student in film and television critical studies, discovered in the archives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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A few days later in New York, Jackie shook hands with Mayor John F. Hylan before a crowd of 88,000 waiting to see the Yankees take on the Philadelphia Athletics. Then he came down with influenza.
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