Diana Serra Cary aka Baby Peggy SIGNED Card Child Star Era Coogan Pickford HC/DJ

Hollywood's Children - An Inside Account of the Child Star Era by Diana Serra Cary  copyright 1978  1st Edition 1st printing  - this hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition - There are no torn or missing pages nor writing -  dustjacket in very good condition with no wear in protective cover   (see photos)

Signed Card attached to title page   "Baby Peggy"  Diana Serra Cary

This intelligent and well-written book focuses largely only on four child stars who might be called Hollywood's children. The first child star the author discusses became a star before Hollywood even had a name: Lotta Crabtree, a young girl who captured the hearts of miners during the Gold Rush Era and became very wealthy as a consequence. The second child star wasn't really a child at all, though Hollywood and the nation adored her: Mary Pickford. The third child star was Jackie Coogan, though he doesn't occupy as much space within the book as does the fourth and final child star, Baby Peggy. The author discusses other child actors, but never in much detail. The book is really a history of the pre-movie and the era of the Silents, and where the book isn’t about these four stars, it focuses on the quintessential stage mother of these stars and other children.Throughout the book, the author notices certain patterns common to the four child stars as well as other child stars, including Shirley Temple. The child star is innocent about money and never taught about it - until it's too late. (Baby Peggy, Jackie Coogan, and Shirley Temple had their parents spend most of all the earnings.) The child star has no normal relationship with other children. (Baby Peggy grew up into a mature adult without even knowing what hopscotch was or what it looked like.). Because they spent so much time with movies, they quickly relied upon romance to solve many of their issues as they became adolescents. (Shirley Temple married at 17, wanting to be the first in her class to get married, and Baby Peggy married just to escape her parents' control.). Finally, all these child stars and others as well prevented their children from going into the movie business and tried to protect them from it.

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