Saturday, September 13, 2003
Ziggy says...
...there's a 99.8% probability that this movie critic is wrong (at least, about the unemployable part):
"Free of the gagging cuteness found in many movie children, young Dean acts with professional grace which should keep him in star parts until a first whisker makes him technologically unemployable."
From a 1946 review of The Green Years, featuring 10-year-old Dean Stockwell, one of the few child stars to go on to even more success as an adult actor. (Life, April 15, 1946)
...there's a 99.8% probability that this movie critic is wrong (at least, about the unemployable part):
"Free of the gagging cuteness found in many movie children, young Dean acts with professional grace which should keep him in star parts until a first whisker makes him technologically unemployable."
From a 1946 review of The Green Years, featuring 10-year-old Dean Stockwell, one of the few child stars to go on to even more success as an adult actor. (Life, April 15, 1946)
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