#child actors

[mishalogic]

What were you kids thinking?

during your early days of movie making? ... Launa Patten and Bobby Driscoll

[rebuildingrob]

Rob reacts: “Quiet On The Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV“

I just watched episode one of “quiet on the set” and right off the bat. I have to say : No wonder Amanda Bynes is as fucked up as she is If you were a fan of the Nickelodeon kids shows, specifically “the Dan Schneider universe“ in the late 90s through early 2000s, prepared to get your childhood ruined. I was in my early 20s when the Dan Schneider verse really kicked in on Nickelodeon. For that…

[soberqueerinthewild]

One thing I’ve thought about a lot since having my daughter is that I don’t think there’s any ethical way for children to be in tv shows/movies/vlog YouTube or Instagram channels. I understand there are stories I want to to see that include children but not enough to outweigh the negative impact on children.

As a parent, it is my responsibility to act in the best interest of my child. Because like every parent I thought my baby was the cutest we used to joke that she should be in Gerber babies commercials. Then because I was a psycho about nap schedules was like “I could never because filming would mess with her nap schedule” which, obviously was not the only reason but I think about Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen being on full house at 9 months old. You can’t tell me it was in their best interest to be on set at the whims of a directors schedule instead of at home napping and playing.

You can’t tell me in was in Emma Watson’s best interests to be subjected to scrutiny about her appearance from the day she started and then have a literal countdown from grown men about when she turned 18 (and up skirt photos taken that same day).

It’s not in any children’s best interests to have their tantrums filmed and shown to the world so that their parents can talk about how well they gentle parented them to calm down. It isn’t in a foster child’s best interests to share their trauma on a YouTube channel or have their reaction filmed to finding out information about their biological family. It’s definitely not in their best interests to be filmed eating a popsicle when their parents can see the video has had outsized engagement and saves many of which are from grown men.

And obviously the swarm of abuse and manipulation of kids on sets (like Nickelodeon and many others) is well known and documented.

I truly don’t see how there is any ethical way to have child actors exist

[oldshowbiz]

Baby Peggy

[shewhotellsstories]

People tend to treat child stars having breakdowns as amusing, but realizing just how many of these children were abused makes their mental health struggles feel like, "of course, they struggled, adults they trusted violated them."

[redribbonsandblood]

I hate child actors they fill me with jealousy until I unwillingly explode and make a mess of my room.

[septembergold]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Child actors, employed with increasing frequency onstage and in radio, had a drama school of their own in the 1930s. The Juvenile Theatre of Art trained them and gave them an opportunity to act in repertory company at Carnegie Hall. It produced four plays in the 1937-38 season for paid audiences. This was the stage door on January 21, 1938.

Photo: Associated Press

[ariadneauxyeuxmarrons]

George "Spanky" McFarland, Our Gang, 1930s

[robinlorrainephotography]

Child modeling photoshoot at the studio in LA

[gone2soon-rip]

JUDY NUGENT (1940-Died October 26th 2023,at 83).

Nugent was a child actor, first appearing on screen at age six in It Had to Be You (1947), where she and her sister Carol portrayed the same character at different ages. A few bit parts in films were followed by her landing a regular role in television's first family sitcom, The Ruggles (1949–1952). Her film career then took off with supporting parts in several mid-fifties dramas, including Magnificent Obsession (1954), one of the Kettle kids in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1954) and There's Always Tomorrow (1956) for Universal-International.

Two of her roles were as Jet Maypen for the Walt Disney Presents: Annette serial on The Mickey Mouse Club and as little Ann Carson, the little blind girl who flew around the world with Superman, on the Adventurers of Superman. As she reached adulthood, her parts were mainly guest appearances on television shows, including the ABC/Warner Brothers Television series 77 Sunset Strip and Sugarfoot, as well as Willie Carson in the Rawhide episode Incident of the Night Horse.

Nugent appeared in five episodes of The Tall Man as June McBean with thought made to spin The McBeans off into a series,however she gave up acting after marrying in 1961. She did cameos for two independent film productions during the seventies.

Judy Nugent - Wikipedia