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Silent movie child star Jackie Coogan was born John Leslie Coogan Jr. on October 26th, 1914 in Los Angeles, California to a show business family. His father, John H. Coogan, had been born in Syracuse and worked in an apothecary and then in vaudeville as an actor and dancer, and his mother had been a child star on the stage. Shortly after Jackie's birth the Coogans went east and it was in New York that Jackie made his first real appearance in the theater, at the age of four years. At age five he began touring with his family in vaudeville shows.
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Whether or not Jackie Coogan's utterly charming ragamuffin is Chaplin's idealization of his own lost childhood, the tyke's captivating co-starring role plants his feet as the model for all subsequent child stars. It's no hyperbole to say that Coogan delivers one of the all-time great performances by an actor not yet old enough to read a screenplay. An expressive and natural mimic, he was the ideal Chaplin actor, able to serve up every emotional and physical nuance the exacting director demanded of him. He's not only the cutest li'l scrapper until Finding Nemo's titular sea urchin, he's a full-fledged actor with a range and presence that he was never again able to capture on film. Coogan's career ended on a sort-of uptick as Uncle Fester on TV's The Addams Family.
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Little Jackie Coogan, the most popular child star of his generation, once again played a poor but spunky ragamuffin in this lachrymose silent drama from independent producer Sol Lesser. Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli (Josie Sedgwick) takes her little son Jackie (Coogan) to live on the Holden farm. Helene dies shortly thereafter and Jackie runs away from home when the Holdens (Bert Woodruff and Anna Townsend) are forced into the poorhouse. In the Big City, Jackie befriends Gallo (Cesare Gravina), a sidewalk musician who just happens to be the former teacher of world famous violinist Paul Savelli (Arthur Edmund Carewe), Jackie's long-lost father. Before he dies, Gallo manages not only to reunite father and son but restore the farm to the kindhearted Holdens. A family affair, Daddy was "A Jackie Coogan Production," "personally supervised by Jack Coogan" and written by "Mrs. And Mrs. Jack Coogan."
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A crowd gathers outside the Leader Theater, 507 Ninth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The Kid, with Jackie Coogan and Charlie Chaplin, is playing at the theater. The sign being held out front reads: "First National Week. This Theatre Joins In Grand National Exhibition of Great Stars. First National Pictures. Great Show To Day." From the National Photo Company collection, c. 1922.
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Jackie Coogan was born October 26, 1914 in Los Angeles, California. His birth name is John Leslie Coogan Junior. His father, John H. Coogan was a dancer. His mother, Lillian Dolliver Coogan had been a child star on the stage. Shortly after Jackie’s birth the Coogans moved to New York. Jackie Coogan began his acting career as an infant.
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Jackie Coogan was born to vaudeville parents and was appearing on stage before he was four years old. Charlie Chaplin spotted him one night and chose him for the role of "The Kid." Jackie was an immediate favorite of moviegoers and went on to become one of the most popular child stars of all time. As an adult, he was best known for his role as Uncle Feser in "The Adams Family." He ... appeared in the science fiction cult favorite "The Space Children," which featured several popular child stars of the late 1950's.
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