VTG JACKIE COOGAN PHOTO SIGNED 20s " THE KID " CHARLIE CHAPLIN CHILD ACTOR




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A fantastic autograph PHOTO from 1920's framed of Jackie Coogan who was  in "The Kid" with Charlie Chaplin. The autograph is on and 8x10 paper and frame measures slightly larger. Inscribed in black ink
ToMrs BarthBest WishesJackie Coogan




Then suddenly came the purr of a big car outside and the sound of crowds running. Through the glass an immense Daimler could be seen to draw up to the kerb and a frantic, sh...outing mob tear themselves away from the cordon of police and run as one man towards the entrance of the Savoy. The swing doors opened and in came Jackie Coogan.
They came running from the lounge and the writing-room and the restaurant, closing in upon him with "Here he is!" and "What a darling!" and "Thank goodness the kid's come at last!" While through the middle of them walked Jackie, quite grave and composed and crushing in his complete disregard. He thought them foolish.

So they were.
It was only when a small child, much smaller than himself, stood straight in his path that Jackie stopped his solemn course towards the lifts.
He looked at the small child rather as you or I would look at a particularly nice puppy. The small child looked shyly at him and showed him a teddy bear. Then Jackie smiled for the first time, and the two little boys fell into a grave conversation on the subject of bears, quite undisturbed by the crowd that was gathering around them.
Jackie knew all about bears, it seemed. He had just come back from an afternoon at the zoo. "A lovely afternoon, " said Jackie, with a sigh of content.
But he looked rather white and tired as he stood there in his quaint fawn overcoat – rather like a teddy bear himself – and his Leviathan sailor cap.
He is a slight little boy who looks younger than his nine years, hair lighter than it appears on the screen, eyes bigger and blacker, a solemn wistful little boy, "simple and unaffected, " just like a hundred other nice little boys who have not the misfortune to be screen stars of world renown.
But even world famous film stars sometimes reach the end of their working day.
"The boy's tired out with seeing folks, " said a voice, and he was whirled up to a 6.30 bath and bed in the Royal suite.




Jackie Coogan, who in 1919 became the first major child star in American movie history as the sad-eyed foundling in ''The Kid, '' died after a heart attack yesterday at the Santa Monica (Calif.) Hospital. He was 69 years old and lived in Palm Springs, Calif.
Mr. Coogan, who charmed a later generation as Uncle Fester on the television series ''The Addams Family, '' was taken to the hospital's emergency room shortly before noon, said a hospital spokesman, Mary Isaacs. He died two hours later.
For several years in the 1920's, he was the most famous boy in America. In one popularity poll, he topped Rudolph Valentino and Douglas Fairbanks.
''I had the flu in New York, and it pushed the President of the United States off the front pages, '' he said in an interview in 1972.
After making his stage debut at the age of 16 months, he earned between $2 million and $4 million before he was out of short pants. Spotted by Chaplin
Continue reading the main storyAt the age of 4, he was spotted on a Hollywood vaudeville stage by Charlie Chaplin, who gave him a $75-a-week role in ''The Kid.'' When the film was finished, he received a $5, 000 bonus. Then came ''Peck's Bad Boy'' at $1, 000 a week, followed by a $500, 000 Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer contract with a clause guaranteeing him 60 percent of the profits from such pictures as ''Tom Sawyer'' and ''Huckleberry Finn.''
John Leslie Coogan Jr. was born in Los Angeles, and by the time he was 13 he had been to New York 18 times, most often traveling in his private railroad car.
''Normal boy?'' he said in the 1972 interview. ''How would I know what a normal boy would do? When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California.
''Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics. I surfed from Baja California to San Francisco when there were only 9 or 10 surfers on the entire Pacific Coast. I drank milk from my own ranch. Other boys went to see Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth came to see me.'' Death of Father
But his life unraveled months before his 21st birthday. After a day of dove hunting in Mexico, the car his father was driving was forced off the road. The young actor was badly bruised, and his father and three other passengers were killed.
Mr. Coogan said later that the rest of his life would have been different if his father had survived. The reason was money.
Of the millions he had made as a child star, all he had ever received was a weekly allowance of $6.25. When he turned 21, his mother, Lillian, and Arthur Bernstein, the family lawyer whom she had married, announced that they would not turn any of it over to him. ''The law is on our side, and Jackie Coogan will not get a cent from his past earnings, '' Mr. Bernstein declared at a news conference.
After a childhood of virtually unquestioning obedience, Mr. Coogan agonized for two years before deciding to file suit to recover the money. 'Blackballed by the Studios'
''It was the lowest point of my life, '' he said in 1972, ''because my stepfather was related to many people, and I was blackballed by the studios.''
His anxiety was compounded by the disintegration of his first marriage, to a young starlet named Betty Grable. Eighteen months later, when the lawsuit was settled, he was left with only $35, 000 - but with the knowledge that such a situation could not recur.
''Forty-eight hours after I filed my suit, they rushed a new law through the Legislature, '' he said. The measure said that all juvenile actors' earnings had to be deposited in court-administered trust funds.
Mr. Coogan became a stage actor in 1937 and estimated in 1966 that he had appeared in 35 silent films, 100 talkies and 850 television programs, including more than 65 episodes of ''The Addams Family.'' His Uncle Fester character in that series would stuff a light bulb in his mouth and make it glow. A Landing in Burma
In World War II, Mr. Coogan joined the Army as a flight officer and was the first glider pilot to land Allied troops behind the Japanese lines in Burma.
''If you think the natives were surprised when our gliders landed, '' he said, ''you should have seen them when we opened up the mouth of one and drove out a jeep.'' He was later awarded the Air Medal for meritorious service.
After his divorce from Miss Grable, he married another actress, Flower Parry, in 1941. They were divorced two years later, and in 1946 he married Ann McCormick, from whom he was divorced in 1951. The following year, he married Dorothea Lamphere, a dancer, who was at his bedside when he died.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Anthony, of Los Angeles, and Chris, of Palm Springs; two daughters, Joan, of Los Angeles, and Leslie Franklin of Malibu, and two grandchildren.

Jackie CooganChaplin The Kid edit.jpgJackie Coogan with Charlie Chaplin in The Kid (1921)Born John Leslie Coogan[1]October 26, 1914Los Angeles, California, U.S.Died March 1, 1984 (aged 69)Santa Monica, California, U.S.Cause of death Cardiac arrestResting place Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver CityNationality AmericanOccupation Actor, comedianYears active 1917–1984Spouse(s) Betty Grable(m. 1937; div. 1939)Flower Parry(m. 1941; div. 1943)Ann McCormack(m. 1946; div. 1951)Dorothea Lamphere(m. 1952)Children 4Relatives Keith Coogan (grandson)Military careerAllegiance  United StatesService/branch US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg United States Army Air ForcesYears of service 1941–1945Rank US-O2 insignia.svg  LieutenantUnit 1st Air Commando GroupBattles/wars World War II:Burma CampaignAwards Air Medal ribbon.svg Air MedalJohn Leslie "Jackie" Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films.[2]
Charlie Chaplin's film classic The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in film history. He later sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, widely known as the Coogan Act.[3] Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying Uncle Fester in the 1960s TV series The Addams Family.
Contents 1 Early life and early career1.1 Coogan Bill1.2 Charity work2 Later years2.1 Film2.2 Radio2.3 World War II2.4 Television3 Marriages and children4 Death5 Filmography6 References7 Further reading8 External linksEarly life and early careerHe was born as John Leslie Coogan in 1914 in Los Angeles, California, to John Henry Coogan Jr. and Lillian Rita (Dolliver) Coogan.[1][4] He began performing as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film Skinner's Baby. Charlie Chaplin discovered him in the Orpheum Theatre, a vaudeville house in Los Angeles, on the stage doing the shimmy, a dance popular at the time. Coogan's father was also an actor, as was his younger brother, Robert Coogan. Jackie Coogan was a natural mimic and delighted Chaplin with his abilities. Chaplin cast him in a small role in A Day's Pleasure (1919). He was Chaplin's irascible companion in The Kid (1921) and the following year played the title role in Oliver Twist, directed by Frank Lloyd. Coogan was one of the first stars to be heavily merchandised. Peanut butter, stationery, whistles, dolls, records, and figurines were among the Coogan-themed merchandise on sale.

Coogan in 1920Coogan was tutored until the age of 10, when he entered Urban Military Academy and other prep schools. He attended several colleges, as well as the University of Southern California. In 1932, he dropped out of Santa Clara University because of poor grades.
In November 1933, Brooke Hart, a close friend of Coogan from Santa Clara University, was kidnapped from his family-owned department store in San Jose and brought to the San Francisco area San Mateo–Hayward Bridge. After several demands for a $40, 000 ransom, police arrested Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes in San Jose. Thurmond admitted that Hart had been murdered the night he was kidnapped. Both killers were transferred to a prison in downtown San Jose. A mob broke into the jail, and Thurmond and Holmes were hanged in a nearby park. Coogan was reported to be present and to have held the lynching rope.[5]
In 1935, 20-year-old Coogan was the sole survivor of a car crash in eastern San Diego County that killed his father; his best friend, 19-year-old actor Junior Durkin;[6] their ranch foreman Charles Jones, and actor and writer Robert J. Horner. The party was returning from a day of dove hunting over the border in Mexico in early May. With his father at the wheel, the car was forced off the mountain highway near Pine Valley by an oncoming vehicle and rolled down an embankment.[7][8][9]
Coogan BillMain article: California Child Actor's Bill“ Mr. and Mrs. Bernstein will never be serious contenders for the title of Mr. and Mrs. America. ”— New York Herald Tribune, 1938[10]As a child star, Coogan earned an estimated $3 to $4 million. When he turned 21 in October 1935, his fortune was believed to be well intact. His assets had been conservatively managed by his father, who had died in the car accident less than six months earlier.[11]
However, Coogan found that the entire amount had been spent by his mother and stepfather, Arthur Bernstein, on fur coats, diamonds and other jewelry, and expensive cars. Bernstein had been a financial advisor for the family and married Coogan's mother in late 1936.[12] Coogan's mother and stepfather claimed Jackie enjoyed himself and simply thought he was playing before the camera. She insisted, "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything", [10] and claimed he "was a bad boy".[13] Coogan sued them in 1938, [12] but after his legal expenses, he received just $126, 000 of the $250, 000 remaining of his earnings. When he fell on hard times and asked Charlie Chaplin for assistance, Chaplin handed him $1, 000 without hesitating.[14]
The legal battle focused attention on child actors and resulted in the 1939 enactment of the California Child Actor's Bill, often referred to as the "Coogan Law" or the "Coogan Act". It required that a child actor's employer set aside 15% of the earnings in a trust (called a Coogan account), and specified the actor's schooling, work hours, and time off.[15]
Charity workCoogan worked with Near East relief, he toured across the United States and Europe in 1924 on a "Children's Crusade" as part of his fundraising drive, which provided more than $1 million in clothing, food, and other contributions (worth more than $13 million in 2012 dollars). He was honored by officials in the United States, Greece, and Rome, where he had an audience with Pope Pius XI.[16]
A Roman Catholic, Coogan was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills.[17]
Later yearsFilmCoogan appeared with then-wife Betty Grable in College Swing, a 1938 musical comedy starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye and Bob Hope.
RadioIn 1940, Coogan played the role of "a playboy Broadway producer" in the Society Girl program on CBS radio.[18] He also starred in his own program, Forever Ernest, on CBS from April 29, 1946, to July 22, 1946.[19]
World War IICoogan enlisted in the U.S. Army in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor that December, he requested a transfer to Army Air Forces as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. Graduating the Advanced Glider School with the Glider Pilot aeronautical rating and the rank of Flight Officer, [20] he volunteered for hazardous duty with the 1st Air Commando Group.[21]
In December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate on March 5, 1944, landing them at night in a small jungle clearing 100 miles (160 km) behind Japanese lines in the Burma Campaign.[22][23]

Coogan in a publicity shot for The Addams Family TV seriesTelevisionAfter the war, Coogan returned to acting, taking mostly character roles and appearing on television. From 1952 to 1953, he played Stoney Crockett on the syndicated series Cowboy G-Men. He guest-starred on NBC's The Martha Raye Show. He appeared too, as Corbett, in two episodes of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane, which aired from 1960–1962. In the 1960–1961 season, he guest-starred in the episode "The Damaged Dolls" of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. In 1961, he guest-starred in an episode of The Americans, an NBC series about family divisions stemming from the Civil War. He also appeared in episode 37, titled "Barney on the Rebound", of The Andy Griffith Show, which aired October 31, 1961. He had a regular role in a 1962–63 NBC series, McKeever and the Colonel. He finally found his most famous television role as Uncle Fester in ABC's The Addams Family (1964–1966). He appeared as a police officer in the Elvis Presley comedy Girl Happy in 1965.[24]
He appeared four times on the Perry Mason series, including the role of political activist Gus Sawyer in the 1963 episode, "The Case of the Witless Witness", and TV prop man Pete Desmond in the final episode, "The Case of the Final Fadeout", in 1966. He was a guest several times on The Red Skelton Show, appeared twice on The Brady Bunch ("The Fender Benders" and "Double Parked"), I Dream of Jeannie (as Jeannie's uncle, Suleiman – Maharaja of Basenji), Family Affair, Here's Lucy and The Brian Keith Show, and continued to guest-star on television (including multiple appearances on The Partridge Family, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, and McMillan and Wife) until his retirement in the middle 1970s.
Marriages and childrenCoogan was married four times, and had four children. His first three marriages to actresses were short-lived.[3] He and Betty Grable were engaged in 1935 and married on November 20, 1937, [25] [26][27] and they divorced less than two years later on October 11, 1939. Eighteen months later on August 10, 1941, he married Flower Parry (d.1981). They had one son, John Anthony Coogan (writer/producer of 3D digital and film), born March 4, 1942, in Los Angeles; they divorced on June 29, 1943.[28] Coogan married his third wife, Ann McCormack, on December 26, 1946;[29][30] a daughter, Joann Dolliver Coogan, was born April 2, 1948, [31] in Los Angeles. They divorced on September 20, 1951.[32][33][34]
Dorothea Odetta Hanson, also known as Dorothea Lamphere, best known as Dodie, was a dancer and became Coogan's fourth wife in April 1952 and they were together over thirty years, until his death. She died in 1999. They had two children together, a daughter, Leslie Diane Coogan, born November 24, 1953, in Los Angeles, and a son, Christopher Fenton Coogan, born July 9, 1967, in Riverside County, who died in a motorcycle accident in Palm Springs on June 29, 1990.[35][36]
Leslie Coogan has a son, actor Keith Coogan, who was born Keith Eric Mitchell on January 13, 1970, being three years younger than his uncle Christopher. He began acting in 1975, and changed his name in 1986, two years after his grandfather's death. His roles include the oldest son in Adventures in Babysitting. Footage of Jackie with his grandson, Keith can be seen in the 1982 documentary Hollywood's Children.
Death
Grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, CaliforniaAfter suffering from heart and kidney ailments, Coogan succumbed to heart failure on March 1, 1984, at age 69, in Santa Monica, California.[37] He had previously suffered several strokes and had been undergoing kidney dialysis when his blood pressure dropped. Coogan was taken to Santa Monica Hospital, where he died from cardiac arrest.[3]
At his request, Coogan's funeral was open to the public and he was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.[38][39] His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located on the 1700 block of Vine Street, just south of Hollywood Boulevard.[40]
FilmographySkinner's Baby (1917) as The Baby (uncredited)A Day's Pleasure (1919) as Smallest Boy (uncredited)The Kid (1921) as The ChildPeck's Bad Boy (1921) as Henry Peck AKA 'Peck's Bad Boy'My Boy (1921) as The BoyNice and Friendly (1922) as BoyTrouble (1922) as Danny, the KidOliver Twist (1922) as Oliver TwistDaddy (1923) as Jackie Savelli / Jackie HoldenCircus Days (1923) as Toby TylerLong Live the King (1923) as Crown Prince Ferdinand William OttoA Boy of Flanders (1924) as NelloHello, 'Frisco (1924) as HimselfLittle Robinson Crusoe (1924) as Mickey HoganThe Rag Man (1925) as Tim KellyOld Clothes (1925) as Timothy KellyJohnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927) as Johnny O'DayThe Bugle Call (1927) as Billy RandolphButtons (1927) as ButtonsFree and Easy (1930) as Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)Tom Sawyer (1930) as Tom SawyerHuckleberry Finn (1931) as Tom SawyerSkippy (1931)Home on the Range (1935) as Jack HatfieldCollege Swing (1938) as JackieMillion Dollar Legs (1939) as Russ SimpsonSky Patrol (1939) as Carter MeadeQueen of Broadway (1942)Kilroy Was Here (1947) as Pappy CollinsFrench Leave (1948) as Pappy ReaganSkipalong Rosenbloom (1951) as Buck LovelaceVarieties on Parade (1951) as HimselfOutlaw Women (1952) as Piute BillCowboy G-Men (1952–1953 TV Series) as Stoney CrockettMesa of Lost Women (1953) as Dr. AranyaThe Actress (1953) as Inopportune (uncredited)Escape from Terror (1955) as Agent PetrovThe Proud Ones (1956) as Man on Make (uncredited)The Buster Keaton Story (1957) as Elmer CaseThe Joker Is Wild (1957) as Swifty MorganEighteen and Anxious (1957) as Harold 'Eager' BeaverLonelyhearts (1958) as Ned GatesHigh School Confidential! (1958) as Mr. 'Mr. A' AugustThe Space Children (1958) as Hank JohnsonNo Place to Land (1958) as SwedeNight of the Quarter Moon (1959) as Desk Sergeant BraganThe Beat Generation (1959) as Jake BaronThe Big Operator (1959) as Ed BrannellSex Kittens Go to College (1960) as Wildcat MacPhersonWhen the Girls Take Over (1962) as Capt. ToussaintThe Addams Family (1964–1966 TV series) as Uncle FesterJohn Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) as Father RyanGirl Happy (1965) as Sgt. BensonA Fine Madness (1966) as Mr. FitzgeraldThe Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) as Matthew BaschRogue's Gallery (1968) as Funeral DirectorMarlowe (1969) as Grant W. HicksCahill U.S. Marshal (1973) as CharlieThe Phantom of Hollywood (1974) as JonathanThe Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975) as Detective Chief AndersonWon Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) as Stagehand 1Human Experiments (1979) as Sheriff TibbsDr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980) as Sgt. FleacollarThe Escape Artist (1982) as Magic Shop OwnerThe Prey (1984) as Lester Tile (final film role)



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