Word: cooganing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Penrod and Sam. Time was when child actors were received with hysterical applause if they were any better than downright offensive. Along came Jackie Coogan. Now child actors are a requisite on every movie lot in California. Why? Because they are adapted to a type of entertainment which is faintly damned by the adjective "wholesome...
...Lillian Coogan: "Proud mother that I am, I am furnishing newspapers throughout the country with an installment biography of my son, Jackie...
...sheik and an English nobleman and a little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy, and oh what a pathetic time he does have! Financially the picture should be a regular rhinestonemine. We suggest as its logical successor Old Curiosity Shop, with Jackie as Little Nell. Prodigal Daughters...
...Madison and his gang to exploit the healing powers of the Patriarch. But they reckon without two things--faith and love. On the eve of success, Helena, who is posing as the Patriarch's long-lost granddaughter, suffers twinges of conscience. She finally tells Harry Evans and Michael Coogan that she can not go through with the conspiracy. The Patriarch is too good a man. But, the forces of good have not been working on Helena alone. Both Harry and Michael have found in this little village a love which has shown them the error of their ways and they...
...many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity...