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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430280830973
EAN: 9780786412549
ISBN: 0786412542
Label: McFarland & Company
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 389
Publication Date: May 06, 2002
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Studio: McFarland & Company
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Former child actor Paul Petersen once said, "Fame is a dangerous drug and should be kept out of the reach of children." It is certainly true that many child actors have fallen prey to the dangers of fame and suffered for it later in life, but others have used fame to their advantage and gone on to even more successful careers in adulthood.
This work is a compilation of interviews with 39 men and women who, as children, worked in the motion picture industry in Hollywood. They all handled their childhood celebrity differently. Lee Aaker, Mary Badham, Baby Peggy, Sonny Bupp, Ted Donaldson, Edith Fellows, Gary Gray, Jimmy Hunt, Eilene Janssen, Marcia Mae Jones, Sammy McKim, Roger Mobley, Gigi Perreau, Jeanne Russell, Frankie Thomas, Beverly Washburn, Johnny Whitaker, and Jane Withers are among those interviewed. They talk candidly about their experiences on and off the set, the people they worked with, and what they did after their careers ended. The pros and cons of being a child actor and the effects that it had on them later in life are discussed at great length.
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The name "Growing Up On the Set" implies that you would learn:
· What it's like to go on auditions.
· What it's like to memorize a script.
· What it's like to reherse and reherse and...
I learned none of this. I learned what movies each of the actors was in and what celebrities each one worked with. That's about it. It has nothing to do with what it's like to be a child actor.
-- Jay Roberts
Rating:  -
Tom and Jim Goldrup are two brothers who have been seeking out Hollywood character actors (many long forgotten, a few still before the cameras) and getting them to talk about their lives and careers. The Goldrups have self-published three thick volumes, each containing 40 to 50 interviews, since the mid 1980s.
Here, in their fourth volume, they turn their attention to actors whose film careers began in childhood. As in the previous three volumes, the interviewers are unobtrusive, and ... Read More
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