Hollywood's Children (Full Documentary) - The Hollywood Collection

A Documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures. Narrated by Roddy McDowell.
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For nearly a century, Hollywood has captivated and influenced generation after generation of moviegoers. Its magic has left an indelible imprint on every culture with a movie projector. Originally broadcast on PBS, HBO/Cinemax, TNT, A&E, Lifetime, and Bravo, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of biographies and cinema retrospectives ever compiled, a spectacular treasury of 32 revealing biographies of Hollywood’s most beloved stars. These biographies, some narrated by the stars themselves, include interviews with friends, family members and colleagues, as well as clips from their most memorable films, and in some cases, rare home movies.
“Over 350 actors, writers, directors, producers, make-up people, publicists, agents, and family members all gave of themselves to help make these shows possible. This was the way it was in Hollywood in its classic era and these were the stars that captured us.” - Gene Feldman, producer/director of The Hollywood Collection.

[@rebeccadelbridge2998]

I was offered the part of Dawn Frasers daughter, in the Australian film "Dawn". When i was about 3, or 4. While it was a teeny part, for many years, i resented my mother for not having the bus fare, to get me there. (Maybe, it could have led to other things). Now, i am so grateful.

[@ingmarvandesande3235]

The story of Bobby Driscoll is the saddest of them all. Buried in Potters Field anonimous.

[@bethewalt7385]

*anonymous 😂

[@DisWldFrk90]

It's certainly one of them. Scotty Beckett is another pretty sad story. Plagued by drugs, crimes, and violence so bad that his family now refuses to talk about him due to very bad memories.

[@joiedevivre2005]

Or poor Lucille Ricksen - she was a child star in silent films, but when she was about 13, they started casting her in adult roles, often as the wife to an actor 20 or 30 years her senior. She was in over 30 films & died of tuberculosis at age 14 - just weeks after her mother had literally dropped dead on top of her from a fatal heart attack. Most felt the film industry had worked Lucille to death.

[@rorosanchez1538]

Strange because I was thinking about him while watching a video about the late child actor Jackie Coogan. He was found dead in my neighborhood in an abandoned building by some children going in that building to play. Sad that he was buried in Potters Field. Idk why nobody from Hollywood could take up a collection for a simple but proper burial.

[@StephanieMT]

Shocking most recently learned thing about hollywood children was the coogan account was named after jackie coogan who was uncle fester in original addams family

[@RianShafer]

I remember all of these kids because my mom liked their movies & would watch their re-runs. It's very sad about how they "aged out" even Shirley Temple. I'm pretty sure I saw every movie she ever made & once she turned into a teenager, there were very few movies. I think it was that way for any of those child actors, except a very few.

[@raea3588]

As for Shirley Temple, she did movies into her early 20s. Once during an interview, while plugging her autobiography 40 years later, she was asked if she knew her last movie would be her last? Shirley replied "I hoped it would be. I loved making films but I was ready to leave the world of make believe for the real one." People aren't happy when child stars commit the inevitable crime of growing up and especially for child stars that existed before TV, making that transition into older roles was even harder. But I was very happy for Shirley Temple because she got to be a wife and a mother, have a very full diplomatic career and then be a Grandma; live as normal and happy life as she could. Only coming back into the spot light now and then to grace us with her winning smile and classy wit ❤

[@quinnellen]

It was indeed sad when little Shirley Temple was literally kicked out of her wee bungalow on the studio lot and lost her 20th Century (Fox) contract as an early teen. Though honestly she was delighted to attend Westlake School for Girls and be a normal tween and teen. She did act and do radio a bit here and there as a teenager (Including the very fine film Since You Went Away) but went on to a normal and successful life. Of all the child actors, hers is perhaps one of the least troubling stories.

[@katkohner9788]

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[@ingridfong-daley5899]

Oh my god. "Greed is an overpowering sin that is committed against children, every day." @32:50 Hearing Jackie Coogan say it that way was unexpectedly moving; it literally choked me up, and i'm usually turned off by religious terminology being used for man's own poor choices, but he's a guy who knows. And i doubt he was referring solely to financial crimes against kids.

[@rebeccadelbridge2998]

Right? I watch this, and all I see is predators, paedophiles, exploitation, and greed. It's so sad.

[@bmohin]

the film “ The Bad Seed” has the most amazing acting job by a child. And “ A. I. “

[@fabiengerard8142]

The ultimate American Dream... Most of the time, those loving parents of theirs just give you the creeps, don't they? As for the usual talent scouts... 🙄 Huge respect for that unforgotten wonderful human named Jackie Coogan! Personally never saw the utmost cynical Hwood kids industry the same way after I happened to read, in the late 1970s or early '80s, about Bobby Driscoll's tragic life story. The shameful Disney touch, you know...

[@DisWldFrk90]

The sad thing about Jackie Coogan is his case of money being taken from him isn't isolated. He was just the first one who had the nerve to take his parents to court. The majority of children in the industry this happened to did not. Shirley Temple for example her parents did the same thing. She just didn't want to stir up family drama and decided to let it go rather than suing them. It's also sad that even the ones who do get to keep their money they often go broke as it's not mandatory in child acting education to teach them how to manage funds so they don't know how. Judy Garland is a great example there. She was broke much of her adult life because she was never taught how to manage money and often left it to her husbands and/or accounts who mis-managed it. Money management is something everyone should be taught, but it seems child actors need it quite a lot as they're set to have more money once they turn 18 than the average 18 year old. Unless their parents or accountants stole it; which in that case is why we need better Coogan Laws. A child actor should be entitled to more than 15% of their earnings. What do parents and accountants really need the other 85% for? Pay the agents/managers/accountants what they legally need, and put the rest of it away for college and/or adult living. Perhaps with the exception of private school. Mara Wilsons father did spend some of her earnings so she could go to private school, but I would say that is ok.

[@daswenzel]

The 20s and 30s were never innocent. They only put everything under the carpet. But I think this documentary is too old, to show how these kids were really abused. What they did with Jackie Cooper was a real crime and his uncle and the Studio bosses would go to prison today. And righteous so.

[@WaileaGurl]

Well said

[@DisWldFrk90]

Shirley Temple's early films would also have been scorned and banned in a lot of areas. The Baby Burlesque were some pretty disgusting films obviously made by pedophiles. Shirley Temple herself did not like them once she looked at them through the eyes of a sane adult.

[@user-io8ji9yx4k]

I always thought Darla from "Little Rascals" was a good actress and she was so cute.

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

Yikes--that line too: "They were adorable, they were wanted, they were loved one day... and then, just as they were becoming human beings--full, adult human beings--they were told 'You're finished.'" The fickle love of narcissists and peed-o's... the moment you stop 'playing along' without protest, you cost too much effort for them. They'd rather move on to another malleable--and to them, utterly faceless--unformed human. It's easier to project fantasy when there's no conflict of reality/identity present, amiright?

[@sharolynwells]

I had a crush on Roddy McDowell when i was a kid, until i found out he was older than my dad.

[@bethewalt7385]

The whole, he's gay could've proved a bigger problem then the age difference 😂😂

[@KathrynRucker]

ME TOO ❤

[@user-qo8ko5sx3e]

This is so sad!

[@Brian-uy2tj]

Jackie Coogan was the one and only "Uncle Fester" on the 60's show "The Addams family" he stole every scene he was in and I loved him. He was always wanting to shoot some strangers in the back "Shoot'em in the back!!!!!" I saw him in dramas in the 70's and 80's and he was good in serious roles, he really was. What I didn't like about child stars was how they were sexualized on screen and the studio execs did it for real, abusing them in real life.

[@CherokeeBird]

With all that has came out, any parent trying to get their child famous needs to be investigated 😡

[@methaqualone5191]

I remember Julie Anne Haddock from 'The Facts of Life.' This must've been after she was fired and was going on other auditions.

[@jeremyud]

It's kind of a shame she never was able to get another break after The Facts of Life.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Him eating that meat lol Charlie lol ❤.

[@WaileaGurl]

They treated these poor kids as prop$ instead of human beings. The abuse both physically and mentally that went on still happens to this day.

[@adancer3592]

I knew Alphas Mom and Sister . The Mother had a dance studio & His Sister was My Sisters freind and they were on drill team together. Ironically Alfalfa taught voice lessons at the Mom's studio . My best freinds Dad was Maloy On 1ADAM 12 He took us to the set of Swiss Family Robinson once and we got to play in the giant tree house all day .

[@user-qo8ko5sx3e]

I had a crush on Spanky, until I was aware he was deceased.

[@sheilaholmes8455]

Baby Peggy was a cutie. She passed recently.

[@WaileaGurl]

She passed away 4 years ago at 101 years old.

[@mikeveis6393]

Our Gang started in 1922.

[@deannaemmons3535]

My cousin Charlie Chaplin

[@tomhaskett5161]

Shirley Temple had all her earnings stolen.

[@donnaedelen1199]

Not true at all.. Her parents put her money away for her.. Read her autobiography "Child Star".. A lot of inaccurate things have been written about her (her children should sue) also, watch the documentary "Shirley Temple, America's little darling".. It's excellent!

[@Songbird2473]

@@donnaedelen1199 "Of the $3,207,666 in earnings her family had received in her name, only $44,000 remained in her trust account." Her father (ironically a banker) spent much of it, and made bad financial investments. She and her husband vowed to never mention it while her parents lived.

[@theexpresidents]

It's okay to be ethnic, so long as we can't tell which "eth."

[@KayBeOnline]

I caught that (with an eye roll)...

[@user-ll9pv5iq1l]

Whatagreatstoryidontthinkthechildrenofhollywoodgettherecconitiontheydeserveilovetheourgangandshirleytempleandjudygarlandandmickeyrooneyiwillnerverforgetyouiloveyousomuchhappyvalentinesdayyour1fan

[@Dotsaa2]

WTF?

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

@@Dotsaa2space bar broken? 😂😂

[@MsDisneylandlover]

I remember watching this already. But it had a diff thumbnail. I always wanted to be famous. #DisneyDiva Wish my parents put me in acting. But i know child actors dont always come out so good. Especially child actors i know of. 😢

[@DerbyJackMusic]

And also indoctinate!

[@dianeandrick5039]

Anybody notice a very young Michael Jackson in the beginning?

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Where is there time stamp

[@WaileaGurl]

That’s not Michael Jackson

[@Quaker-tc8ue]

That’s not Michael Jackson. Paying attention, you hear the voice of Jackie Coogan, talking about his appearance as a very young child in film footage from *1920*. 1920….38 years BEFORE Michael was born. @@hairstillred5135

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

@@WaileaGurlYes it was, and the narrator even says it’s the Jackson 5.

[@evelynwilson1566]

​@@ronswansonsdog2833rhis was made in the early eighties according to the date at the beginning.. Michael Jackson would have been about 22, Those boys were called Jackson though