My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood by Claude Jarman Jr.
2019; University College Cork; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês
10.33178/alpha.16.13
ISSN2009-4078
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoâI was carried on a satin cushion and then dropped into the garbage can.â (Bobby Driscoll, qtd. in Parish 57) The bitter observation of child actor Bobby Driscoll, who won a special Academy Award for his performance in The Window (1949), sums up the attitude of many actors that have found themselves built up and feted, only to be cast aside by the studio systemâs ruthless prioritising of the bottom line. The annals of Hollywood history are littered with tales of child actors financially exploited by guardians; worn down by unrelenting schedules; terrorised by directors and moguls; sinking into addiction and, in the case of some such as Driscoll, succumbing to early deaths.
Referência(s)