The tragic, trailblazing life of Jackie Coogan, 'the most famous boy in the world'
Six-year-old Jackie Coogan, who became an instant global star for his performance in Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 movie The Kid, was soon billed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as “the most famous boy in the world”. Four decades later, when he was a household name again for portraying Uncle Fester, the bald ghoulish-looking freak in the television show The Addams Family, he admitted his addiction to life in the spotlight. “Ask anyone,” he said in 1965, “public adoratio...
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