Oral history interview with Jackie Cooper, 1959

Biographical Note

Actor, director

Scope and Contents

Acting as a child: "Our Gang" comedies, schooling on the lot, "The Champ," impressions of Hollywood as a child star; difficulties while growing up; being typecast; serious attention to acting; entertainment assignments during World War II; recollections of Victor Flemming and Wallace Beery; growing interest in directing and producing; future aspirations. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Acting.
• Actors--Interviews.
• Child actors.
• Cooper, Jackie, 1922-2011--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)